Reducing minelayer damage upgrades

[Siretu]

This is a suggestion I got yesterday:

Reduce Minelayer upgrades from 5 to 3 and increase damage from 20% to 30%. In addition, make each upgrade tier locked, so upgrade 1 requires tier 1 and so on.

[Degra]

Reducing levels from 5 to 3 is okay,
but raising the gain from 20% to 30% is not.

As it currently stands, maximizing minelayer upgrades is very costly but also very effective. Killing miners and wraiths with 2 hits.
I am highly skeptical of keeping it near the current late-game levels (90% bonus instead of 100%), while cutting the cost by half.

I'd rather keep it at 20% damage bonus while lowering the available upgrade levels.
We still don't have an effective anti-mines ability (Minesweeper on Subjugator please), so it's already hard enough to deal with mines as it is.

If we had one, mines could be buffed. (Like Dreadnought's proposal suggests)

[slapshot]

I think it's good that late-game the mine-layers destroy wraiths and miners.. those are early game ships and should be destroyed late-game, but I agree with more late-game counters to them - perhaps make the corvette have an ability that makes it's shots slightly homing ( similar to dessy) such that it can sweep them out as well

[DinoChicken]

In my opinion less upgrades means less time spent on the upgrades console and more time doing other fun things. So i agree that we should reduce the amount of minelayer upgrades, but im unsure if we should flat out nerf the damage potential as well.