Right now, mines are the equivalent of grenade spam except they are 2 orders of magnitude worse. With grenades you get players who are like I'm gonna throw these things so I don't have to shoot the enemy. Except its worse in FL because we have 70 grenades, so it's not just throw a couple and look for hit indicator, it's just brainless spam spam spam spam as substitute for having to aim and shoot the enemy.
Maybe if ships were limited to say 3 mines, then they would have value and would be used sparingly for tactical purposes. Right now it's just too easy to spam spam with them, they add nothing of tactical value, and are just annoying
3 for fighters, 12 for bombers, that would be good