Deploying mines?

[select_21]

Everytime I deploy them, i get blown up. I have a mission that has me deploying 8 mines. Most I've gotten off was 4. I've tried drive-by dropping them, boosting, vertically, horizontally, etc. Encyclopedia says like 150m apart or something, but as soon as I drop one, it explodes like .5 seconds later. I'm not seeing how to do this.

[Brandemihl]

omg if nobody has answered this, there is no hope for me..

[Xenomorph]

Well, it's a fun one for sure.
If your ship drops them from under or above, you have to speed up a bit, use flight assist off to keep your heading and turn yourself perpendicular to the drop (like a T, the top is your ship, the stick is the mine), so it stays behind. When in the bubble, you can pause, release a mine, unpause then pause immediately, release another, etc etc.

Or you can order one of your other ships to drop the mines for you while OOS, think that also works.

[HoloByteus]

WTF... can you not use Friend or Foe mines...lol.

[select_21]

I ended up giving up. I haven't been able to do it. I picked up another like mission today to see if has gotten fixed, and still the same problem.

[Knightframe]

Stop your ship so it stands still.
Open the UI (the large one..so you dont do to many clicks) and deploy mines fast.
Boost away.

If you move to slow, mines will follow you and blow you up.

[select_21]

Publicado originalmente por Knightframe:

Stop your ship so it stands still.
Open the UI (the large one..so you dont do to many clicks) and deploy mines fast.
Boost away.

If you move to slow, mines will follow you and blow you up.

When I say they blow up, I mean they blow up really fast. I can deploy and as soon as I hit another button, I'm blowing up. Like less than a second after I deploy

[Knightframe]

Publicado originalmente por select_21:

Publicado originalmente por Knightframe:

Stop your ship so it stands still.
Open the UI (the large one..so you dont do to many clicks) and deploy mines fast.
Boost away.

If you move to slow, mines will follow you and blow you up.

When I say they blow up, I mean they blow up really fast. I can deploy and as soon as I hit another button, I'm blowing up. Like less than a second after I deploy

Maybe mines got stuck in your ship? It takes a while for them to come out. Maybe the ship you are using is bugged?
I have no issues when placing them with a destroyer for example (or nemessis).

[select_21]

Publicado originalmente por Knightframe:

Publicado originalmente por select_21:

When I say they blow up, I mean they blow up really fast. I can deploy and as soon as I hit another button, I'm blowing up. Like less than a second after I deploy

Maybe mines got stuck in your ship? It takes a while for them to come out. Maybe the ship you are using is bugged?
I have no issues when placing them with a destroyer for example (or nemessis).

It could be. I have tried two different ships and same result. I just gave up on them.

[restarter]

Publicado originalmente por select_21:

Publicado originalmente por Knightframe:

Maybe mines got stuck in your ship? It takes a while for them to come out. Maybe the ship you are using is bugged?
I have no issues when placing them with a destroyer for example (or nemessis).

It could be. I have tried two different ships and same result. I just gave up on them.

hmmm so it isnt just me. no matter what i do my ship blows up. and with 45 second loading time on SSD....yeah, no

[Ghostwind]

whats the sense of this mission? when you deploy them by yourself they blow up.
the npc pilot can deploy it without exploding, but i cant give him the right location, because the station is too high from the center y axis

[yaroslav.fursov]

This is suicide mission as I get it!
After deployed it seems mine have about 10 sec inactive time. After this is will activate and destroy ships neat it (your ship if you still there).
This means you need to deploy 8 mines within 10 seconds and fly far away to at least survive (close explosion most likely remove your shields and maybe hull).
Of course you can use pause to deploy all 8 at once ... the trick is mines will stay in your bay! An as soon as you move - it will explode!
If you deploy single mine - it will move out of your ship very slowly! So if you ship is standing still mine will trigger and detonate before is fly away.
I believe some missions are "traps for the fools" - they are impossible by design!

[yaroslav.fursov]

I have found the solution! After hours of save-load, experimenting with speed and strafe I decided that this is impossible - and was right! This is impossible while you in the same sector!
So next time I loaded a save where my ship stays in right place to deploy mines ... and just teleported to another sector! Right click on ship in map, send "deploy military" order several times - and mission completed! Every second I was expecting my ship to blow up ... but it seems:
MINES WORKS ONLY IF PLAYER CAN SEE THEM !
This explains why enemy ships are easily navigate sectors full of mines. And also makes mines almost useless unless you deploy them right in front of enemy ship!

[restarter]

Publicado originalmente por yaroslav.fursov:

I have found the solution! After hours of save-load, experimenting with speed and strafe I decided that this is impossible - and was right! This is impossible while you in the same sector!
So next time I loaded a save where my ship stays in right place to deploy mines ... and just teleported to another sector! Right click on ship in map, send "deploy military" order several times - and mission completed! Every second I was expecting my ship to blow up ... but it seems:
MINES WORKS ONLY IF PLAYER CAN SEE THEM !
This explains why enemy ships are easily navigate sectors full of mines. And also makes mines almost useless unless you deploy them right in front of enemy ship!

this is how i got it to work as well.
i had to sit here for a long 5 or so minutes while the AI slooooowly deplyed the mines, miraculously not getting attack by the enemy. i didnt think it would work but it did

[Gammelkamel]

How to deploy mines guide:

its actually quite easy:

1. Stand still
2. Deploy mine
3. WAIT for 5 seconds (I suggest you go external camera and you will understand)
4. Strafe up (W) and place next mine or fly away normally

It appears that the mines slowly drop out of the cargo bay, therefore, by deploying them during flight you immediately trigger them. If the cargo bay is not at the bottom of your ship, adjust accordingly.

Happy Mining!

[Xargon]

I tried all these tips but got blown up every time. The one that actually does work every time.
** Have 2 ships. I got this mission early in game, so just kept it for a while. The first faction mission gave me a freighter.
You probably need a pilot in both ships assigned, add the other ship to your fleet so it follows you.
Make sure you have enough mines in your ship to deploy.
Go to the deploy location.
Remove ship from fleet.
Get out of your ship and enter the other ship.
Fly away a little ways.
Command the other ship to deploy mines.
(Mission Done)
Send you other ship off to do something else like explore or something.