Has anyone tried adding Mines?

[Martin the Dane]

While placing a few listening posts, radar stations, and sonor boues, i noticed that when I swiched from land to sea, with the radar station selected an icon that I can only interprete as a mine showed up. I cold not place it anyware, but it gave me the idea of adding minefields as terain improvements (there seems to be an icon for a land mine also).
I have, however, no idea how to make a minefield work in the game, and what effect it would have, ie. on game balance etc., but the fortification TI has a firepower of 0 so there might be something there.

Has anyone tired adding TI's with firepower? what about minefields as TI's?

Just a stray thoght.
Martin the Dane

[Solver]

Almost never created scenarios, but I think you can place anything, and it will work there, mines, fisheries, or etc. Not 100% sure, however.

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[gemini]

I thought I saw in the modification section under activision faq that they did mention something about a mine unit but it was pulled from the game before release. Sounds like due to a bug in the game the mine icon is still there. It'd be cool to have minefields but I can't find where you could implement them in the files to get them to work.

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Gemini

[Martin the Dane]

Well I tried several different things but now I give up. What I ended up with was the following, that seemd to work, but doesn't.

INSTALLATION_MINES	{ 		
PRODUCTION_COST 	150		
PRODUCTION_TIME 	2		
VISION_RANGE 	1		
RADAR_RANGE 	0		
ATTACK 	100		

FIREPOWER 	100		
DEFENSE_BONUS 	0		
ENABLING_ADVANCE	ADVANCE_MASS_PRODUCTION		

### FLAGS HERE			


#DEFAULT_SPRITE 	SPRITE_SONAR_BUOYS	#	  #id string of the default sprite

BUILD_SOUND_ID	SOUND_ID_SONAR_BUOYS		
VISIBILITY_CLASS_0			

VISIBILITY_CAN_SEE_0	
VISIBILITY_CAN_SEE_1	
 	
IS_LISTENING_POST	
INSTALLATION_WATER
}

It replaces the "sonar bouye" on the TI screen, in stead of adding a new TI as it should, no mater what IS_... I put in there or what sprites etc. I try to use. When attempting to place the Improvement it shows up both read and green at the right time, but when I place it it dissapears. I can't place a new one on top of it, so it must still be there.
The TI has however no effect that I have found beside letting you put TI's beside it.

What am I missing? I did put a new line in both "tileimp.txt" and "tileimpicon.txt" and incremented the numbers in the tree files.

Martin the Dane