' Wrote:Hmm, while the blast radius would as you say 'consume all who CD them', how about the mines have a small blast radius but are able to be deployed in batches very fast? Thats why I place the Minelayer ship with 3 mine slots.
No, you don't understand. All ships have a 'shield' somewhere mounted on them. If this shield item isn't hit by the blast, your explosive does 0 damage to the ship's shield. That means you can spam a bajillion nuke mines at a dreadnought, but they do 0 damage, since the shield item is so deep within this huge ship, that the blast radius of the mine doesn't reach it. If you fire 5 nova torpedo at an Osiris (one of the thinnest battleships) probably only 2 will do any shield damage at all, because 3 fail to hit the shield item. This is what Jinx was talking about. And even the 100m blast radius of the Nova torpedo is extremely dangerous for the bomber firing it, a mine that has a bigger radius, would surely kill the ship deploying it.
The only way to go around this is by making a huge blast radius. However, you get caught in the blast yourself...
This is the biggest reason anticap explosives are very hard to make, either they're useless, or there are balancing issues.
Basically, the only way this weapon would work, is if it was used by a ship, expecting to die with the blast. Kinda like a fireship..