Just thought I would warn everyone that sector mines will be changing later tonight or by tomorrow morning.

Sector mines will nolonger ignore ship hulls 8 and lower.

Sector mines will be working differently. The size of your hull will determine how many of the mines detect your ship. So a small hull will only attract a small number of mines while a large hull will attract a large number of mines.

All ships will have a basic hull size that is totally different from the hull tech.

The base hull for a pioneer is 5.

The base hull for a voyager is 20.

The base hull does NOT add extra cargo space but is the size of the ship without any cargo space added. You add cargo space by increasing your hull tech. Increasing the hull tech makes the size of the ship larger to make room for more cargo space.

So a pioneer with a hull tech of 10 will have an overall hull size of 15. A voyager with a hull tech of 10 will have an overall hull of 30.

The overall hull will be used in sector defenses to determine how many mines detect the ship.

The overall hull size will EVENTUALLY be used in ship detection by sensors. But right now sensors will be working as normal.

The way the old mine sector defenses worked a random number of all the mines in the sector would attack the ship. So a small pioneer could be used to wipe out millions of mines.

With the new sector mines a percentage of the mines based upon overall hull size will attack the incoming ship. When the mines attack and the ship is destroyed only the number of mines used to destroy the ship are removed from sector defense. So if one million mines attack a ship and it is destroyed after 10,000 mines hit then only 10,000 mines are used.

Smaller ships may be able to sneak past mines but they might not be able to so carrying mine deflecters on low hull ships will be a MUST. Even if a sector has a million mines going in with a pioneer may only attract 10,000 mines. So you may only need 10,000 mine defelectors to enter a sector with a million mines. The number of mines attacking will not be a FIRM percentage as it will be variable so it may be fewer or more than you expect but nothing outlandish. Just enough to make you wonder.

Look for the change to happen sometime before tomorrow morning.

They can still do it and you will eventually have to do something about them if they do. Because you still might get killed by them.