[headdie]

I was wondering if it would be possible for code to be set up to allow an event to be created along these lines.

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Make Asteroids Explode
          Everytime
                    <
                       Distance
                                 <Any Friendly>
                                 <Any Asteroid Field Object>
                                 500
                    Self Destruct Nearest Object
then with one asteroid.tbl modification to set damage range and amount you would have a ready made minefield

any thoughts?

[Echelon9]

Are you aware of the Minefields FRED example in the wiki?

[Alan Bolte]

Eh, that example is all well and good if you want a small number of stationary individual mines, but if you want the mines to move like asteroids, or you want a minefield with quite a lot of mines, etc., then it doesn't seem like an ideal solution.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Yes this is easily done.  I have something like this (but a bit more complicated) working just fine.  All you need is something like this

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$Formula: ( when-argument
   ( any-of
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-1"
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-2"
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-3"
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-4"
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-5"
      "Streib Auto Turret 1-6"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-1"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-2"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-3"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-4"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-5"
      "Streib Auto Turret 2-6"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-1"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-2"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-3"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-4"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-5"
      "Streib Auto Turret 3-6"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-1"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-2"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-3"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-4"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-5"
      "Streib Auto Turret 4-6"
   )
   ( not
      ( <
         ( distance
            "<any friendly>"
            "<argument>"
         )
         1000
      )
   )
   ( ship-invisible "<argument>" )
   ( ship-stealthy "<argument>" )
)
+Name: Gun untargetable
+Repeat Count: 999999999
+Interval: 1
+Team: 0

Just change the invisible part to self-destruct.

Oops gave you the wrong one.  You will need to remove the not.  That would destroy all mines not close to any friendly ships. 

[Aardwolf]

Also easily doable with Lua scripting.

[Trivial Psychic]

I'd much rather see a coded solution to minefields, as placing individual mines cuts into the ships-per-mission limit.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Well that wouldn't really be a problem with 400 ships if you could have waves and place them.  For some reason SSGs seem to be the only things you can't have waves of. 

Although I guess you could make them invulnerable, use explosion-effect and move them while the explosion occurs.

[Aardwolf]

Escape pods, too.

Anyway, I think minefields are slated as part of an 'Advanced Hazard System' (AHS) for one of the next numbered releases.

[chief1983]

Don't count on that.  I don't think anyone is working on AHS or has been for some time.

[Tolwyn]

Me thinks Kazan wanted to work on it and since he's no longer active...

[chief1983]

Probably, and since half the coders in that roadmap are no longer active or working on the same projects as they were back then, it really doesn't serve much of a purpose anymore.

[Nuke]

you could probibly just script asteroids to do the job, then use asteroids with a model that looks more like a mine.