Clearing minefields

.... Just drive your titan through it without the rest of your fleet.....

and my favourite way is to build a starbase near the  minefield, add atleast two weapon levels , and park one or more scouts near the minefeild, and the starbase shoots the mines, when the detection radius of the scouts is clear, then move the scouts nearer to the remaining mines and wait for the starbase to erase them and repeat until the minefield is removed, but if there are mine spread out over the gw then load up the starbase with bombers, and use the scouts to detect, and the bombers to bomb the mines and repeat.

and as I want starbases in each of my gw's the only issue with this method is that the sb is probably not where I would prefer it for defence reasons

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There is a point where the mine field is too big.  I sent my titan to clear a minefield of at least 70-90+ homing mines and it got crushed.  Though, it was at 70-80% hull and 50% shields...  I do agree it wasnt the best plan, but it did prove that there is a limit to how much a titan can clear a minefield.

Sigh

5-10 flak frigates with a scout. Enough said.

Agree on that account.

Pretty much. I've ran into planets that are simply swamped with mines, literally having to hold immediately upon entering the graviti well then carving a path through them to the planet. After I would cap the planet, the REAL job would begin. So annoying.

BTW, Scouts + Flaks Ryat? You consider that fast? You gotta be kidding me, the main problem is still there = huge time sink and the constant need to babysit them through every step.

Fast? No

Most Efficient? Yes

Enemy mines should disappear when you colonize the planet.

About as efficient as having strike craft in the area by my experience. Either way, my point stands. It's too much of a headache to deal with a gravity well completely riddled with mines.

Personally, I'd prefer that they were removed from the game entirely or given an 'off' switch in the start menu but since that isn't likely to happen (unless I ever care enough to try and mod it myself), yeah, this would be nice too.

TEC and Vasari minefields are annoying but clearing Advent homing mines, which will scrap your scout if it goes any closer than its max detection range, is a much greater exercise in tedium.

I'd love the following:

1.  All factions get a tech where their fighters can detect mines and take them out.  You have to research this of course.
2.  You can toggle mine clearing on the the host of the fighters like toggling auto scout or auto drop sensor drones.

3.  Fighters whose host has auto mine clear turned on will clear mines, assuming no other hostile enemy ships are in the well.  

Thus after you take a well you can build a hangar or just have a Perechon hang around for awhile as the fighters clear.

I really feel the game would be a lot more enjoyable if mine clearing was passed off to the AI.  In real life we're already making mine clearing drones (BAe's Archerfish as an example).  It seems reasonable enough to assume my techs could come up with something my fighters could launch to clear the mines, while the fighters remain at a safe distance.

Or since we already have militia techs for the Terrans, some tech to allow local defense force crews to board the constructors and autoclear mines if they have no other orders.  Basically what Zaydin said.  

It's bad enough my fleet commanders can't even execute a jump or move into proper fighting formation with me babysitting them,but the fact my system defense commanders can't even autoclear some mines makes me wonder how my people ever made it into space.  

Increasing the scout mine detection range would help with clearing.

Or scouts with squads, that works too.