As everyone is well aware by now, removing mines sucks. It is slow, time-consuming, and requires way too much micro. Therefore, I have come up with some suggestions (besides a mine-sweeper ship/ ablitiy) that would make removing mines easier. I don't think that these have been suggested before, but I apologize if they have.

• If you colonize a TEC owned planet that has mines around it, all of those mines should be destroyed. This won't work with the other races, because their mines don't have to be around planets that they own, so I have other ideas for them.
• For the Advent: If the host (carrier or hanger) is destroyed, all of their deployed mines should be destroyed as well, just like with regular strikecraft.
• For the Vasari: When you destroy a mine-layer ship, all of that ship's mines should be destroyed, too.

Those are just my suggestions. I still think a mine-sweeper of sort sort should be added, too, because with the Vasari and Advent, the "host" won't necissarily be near its mines.