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[namdnas]

oh thats the next project, i am still trying to to get the defiant to lay mines.

[The Joelteon7]

Self-replicating mines is impossible, sorry. I missed that part. It might be doable in A1, but I'm 95% sure it's not possible in A2.

[namdnas]

it would only be possible if a ship can fire a special weapon at itself, can it?

[The Joelteon7]

A ship can have it's target be the ship (like the cloak), but how would you achieve self-replicating mines with the ability to target ones self?

[namdnas]

using the nebulas gemeni effect with no time limit, the only problem would be that is that the settings on the first mine would go for everyone. But there might be a way around it.

Edit: forgot the mine then would be a station and not a special weapon.

[The Joelteon7]

You can have moveable stations though. It might be worth following through the idea, and if you made a special gemini effect, it might be doable.

[namdnas]

but it still brings me back to my origonal question of how do i make it plop out mines at like 1 second intervols until the energy runs out?
And how would i make it self replicate w/o using a station, cause to my knowlage you can't give a special weapon a special weapon.

[namdnas]

oh oh, this just poped into my head you know how every weapon has like 2 ODF files wat if i linked a third that had the self replication thing in it.

[Freyr]

Originally Posted by Joelteon7

A ship can have it's target be the ship (like the cloak), but how would you achieve self-replicating mines with the ability to target ones self?

I don't know if you can do or not, but I would use something like saucer seperation (which seperates into 2 identical mines) on say, a modified bug mine (it would need to be a unit rather than a station) which could be deployed via the quantum thing that the cards have.

Again, I have no idea if it would work but thats how I would go about it.

[The Joelteon7]

Wait, no, that's not a stupid idea Freyr. You'd lose the Galaxy seperation, but it would work like so:

Start off with one mine. Press seperation, you got two. Each one is the "original" (think of it as cell division, they're exactly the same with the same properties), meaning each one can seperate again.