Web mines

Overview

Web mines are a special kind of space mines that can only be laid by The Crystal Confederation. All ships with torpedo launch tubes owned by the Crystallines can use the mission "Lay Web mines".

Like normal space mines, web mines will damage enemy ships that hit a webmine. The chance of hitting a web mine is higher than for hitting a normal mine, and disregards cloaking. Additionally, all ships that start inside a webmine field are drained of 25kT of fuel per web field per turn.

Web mines may be laid in the identity of a foreign player. This can be used to the Crystal's advantage, because of their web mine immunity; however, the foreign player may also travel them safely. They lack the constant passive drain effect, but still deal devastating damage, a forced stop, and fuel drain when triggered.

Trigger Effects

Webmines deal about 10% of normal damage to starships compared to normal space mines.

$\operatorname {damage} =floor(1000/mass)$

However, they will instantly stop any ships that trigger them (set to warp 0) and drain fuel. This fuel loss is in addition to the fuel that would have been used to arrive at the intended waypoint.

$\operatorname {drain} =max(50,ceil(fuel/6))$

Webmine lay

Web mines have the very same multipliers than normal mines when they are laid per torpedo.

Torpedo type	Mine multiplier
Mark 1 Photon	1
Proton Torpedo	4
Mark 2 Photon	9
Gamma Bomb	16
Mark 3 Photon	25
Mark 4 Photon	36
Mark 5 Photon	49
Mark 6 Photon	64
Mark 7 Photon	81
Mark 8 Photon	100

Webmine sweep

Beams have a harder time sweeping web mines than they do normal mines.

Beam class	Sweep multiplier	Normal sweep rate	Web sweep rate
Laser	1	4	3
X-Ray Laser	4	16	12
Plasma Bolt	9	36	27
Blaster	16	64	48
Positron Beam	25	100	75
Disruptor	36	144	108
Heavy Blaster	49	196	147
Phaser	64	256	192
Heavy Disruptor	81	324	243
Heavy Phaser	100	400	300

Default Host Settings for webmines:

Web mine decay rate: 5 %

Five percent of all webmines plus one additional webmine vanish from each webminefield each turn as a result of natural causes, like flying spacedebris.

Webminefield sweep rate: 3

One laser type beam on a ship will sweep three spacemines from a webminefield. Higher tech beams sweep more webmines, depending on their type.

Web minefield sweep range: 0

Webmines can only be swept from within the web.

Colonial fighter can sweep webs: NO

Because of the special nature of webmines, Colonial fighters can not sweep them as they can normal mines.

Mines destroy enemy webmines: NO

Minefields laid over webmines won't destroy the webmines (nor the other way around).

Odds of hitting a webmine per LY: 5%

The chance of hitting a webmine is higher than for normal minefields, at 5% per lightyear travelled. This is independent of the ship's mass, speed or size, or cloaking state.

Ally and Friendly Code Host Settings (Nu only)

As of 2020 at Planets.nu, webmine fields rules were changed in Standard. Players could still use custom settings for the old rules.
The changes for Standard were:

• Sapphire Class Space Ship no longer grants immunity to web mines for ships travelling with it.
• Allies are no longer immune to hitting web mines or being drained by them.
• Web minefields no longer have friendly codes.
• Web minefields can not be layed in another player's identity.
• Crystals are not immune to web minefields layed by other players.

The host settings for these new rules are: (with default values listed)

• crystalwebimmunity: 2

0: Classic. Crystals immune to all Webs

1: Crystals immune to non-Crystal Webs

2: Standard. Crystals only immune to own Webs

• webdiplomacylevel: 4

0: Classic. SafePassage gives Web Immunity

3: Share Intel gives Web Immunity

4: Full Alliance gives Web Immunity

100: Standard. No Web Immunity for Allies

• sapphirenowebimmunity: true

Sapphire will no longer make ships travelling with it immune to webs.

• nowebfriendlycodes: true

Webmine fields no longer have friendly codes. This means you can't pass through them with a matching friendly code.

• nowebsinotherids: true

Players cannot lay webs in other player's names anymore.

Related Topics

• Minefields
• Torpedoes