I hate mines too. I have close to your system 2.4 quad core with 4 gig ram and a Geforce 9800gx2 and I basically quit the games since they slow down so bad. option to turn mines off reduce the number of mines drastically put a time limit on mines make a special ship, mine sweeper to remove them mines easier to destroy
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I had plenty of scouts. There was so many mines in the systems it was just silly. The mines also seem to slow the game down. Even with a quad core with 4 gig of ram the game was crawling. try playing some single player games With so much extra defense as it is I don't much value in mines because of the bog down and slow down of the game. Maybe the mines need to limited in amount and maybe put a time limit on them. A mine sweeper unit to
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I don't like mines. They just bog the game down. The computer goes crazy with them makes 1/2 a planet system filled up with them. If you do include mines in the final version I suggest you add an option to disable/remove them from the game.
I can't run entrnechment. I get this error. fmod.dll can't be found. I uninstalled / reinstalled and same effect.