[Bug?] Advent Mines

Scouts are weak little ships.  They were meant to die.

scouts are ships too

from what i understood from everything i read by the devs back during entrenchment beta (which i participated in, as did you), scouts were supposed to be able to detect the mines and kill them without dying.  my impression is that this is unintended behavior.

If you set their combat range to local area, they can make the mines destructable without dying, but their weapons don't have the range to destroy the mines alone. I usually bring in a carrier or two of fighters to take them out.

why bring carriers when flak frigs do a much better job at a faster rate

with these puppies around my scout, I never lose the scout and only take minimual damage to flak frigs

I tried that, but in extremely dense mine fields, even flaks can be vulnerable, especially sense they like to focus fire on the same mine while the rest get close enough to detonate and cause damage. Fighters have the advantage of being completely immune to mine damage, plus my fleets tend to have more carriers than flaks anyways. Of course maybe it's just the Advent and Vasari flak, the TEC one looks like it would do a better job.

true I mostly play TEC, though I have tried it with advent a couple of times but that was against the Vasari so no good test there

Don't say that about my children!

so bug or not?

not a bug just a slight misadjustment of scout mine detection radius