SoaSE Entrenchment

Nothing you can do about mines atm, they're overpowered, only thing you can do is avoid them entirely, throw scout ships into them over and over, or the TEC colonizing capital ship's final ability can render your own ships invulnerable (But also unable to fire)

A short term solution for me is to select only TEC and Advent opponents. Mines are still broken, but manageable with these two races. Vasari opponents are unplayable due to the excessive mine spam. Maybe try that.

I generally put 5 or so scouts with my fleets, and use scouts/fighters/bombers/flak to destroy mines. I also set my default fleet orders to 'hold position' and 'stay close to flagship'.

Stardock will fix this I"m sure.

I found a good  way to clear mines and save ships but it can take a while. What you do is get a scout and have some bombers or fighters. Move the scout close to some mines so the bombers/fighters can clear them. 

 3 things to remember:

1: if your scout gets to close to an exploding mine it willl be destroyed.

2:you will know when the mine is able to be attacked when the hull is shown and its not phased out (obviously)

3: dont worry about your bombers/fighters b/c they cant set off the mines (from my experiance at least)

Hope this helps   feel free to share it with others

Please put a mine limit per planet, my game just crashed because the computer was down to his last planet and literally built thousands of mines until I ran out of memory.  I had max capital ships, max fleet size spent and could not even come close to clearing any of the mines.  Because of all the paging out, the game was literally a slideshow even at speed 1.

I can provide the dmp file if needed.

Relavent cpu specs:

core 2 duo 8500

2GB ddr2 memory

nvidia 8800gt

Other than this, entrenchment rocks.  I guess I will conisder my game a victory once I am down to the last mine infested planet.

*edit* I can also provide a save game if needed.  Thanks stardock, sins rocks!

Thanks everyone for your replys. I do hope they re-think the mines. I had the same problem as emulsifier001. Machine ended up running so slowly I had to reboot. Stardock please fix this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Other than that the game is still awesome.

I have placed a post in the Sins of a Solar Empire section of the forum commenting on the possible balancing issues accruing from Mine fields proving to be too powerful. My suggestion to the game designers was the development/provision of Minesweeper class ships.

thats an awsome idea and if that doenst work (like it is to easy to get rid of mines) then a possible planet upgrade that would send a way out that destroys all mines in the grav. well but at least we can trust that stardock will do something

What can I do with all these dump files?? My game keeps crashing... assuming it has something to do with mines but NFI...

I am able to play for about 10-15 minutes and the game crashes.

Anyone else having this problem too?

I have completely un-installed the game and deleted all files and re-installed.  Still crashes..

thanks

if your game keeps crashing it's probably because of some of the new graphics they've added. I had the same problem. To fix it I updated my video card drivers and decreased the visuals in entrenchment.

Me too, my friend!

I did the same like you, a complete new installation. But 2 minutes after i load my last saved game, it will always crashing!

I changed it in the Options menu, eg. non maskable, without any changes in behaviour.

I'm so frustrated!

The expansion itself rocks, but always always crashing....!

Mine Too!  Works about 10 minutes and then crashes with a mini dump.  I sent the files to ironclad but have not received a solution.

I havent been able to install Entrenchment yet, so I havent been able to test this, but I was wondering what the Kostura Cannon did to mines?