Reiterating this suggestion, I believe the current system of all bots in a sector immediately turning tail and beelining toward any mine they see is an overcorrection to the prior system by which they didn't react at all.

In short: make bots have a small chance to notice mines the second they're dropped, that grows the longer they've been in the same sector. Makes for a more realistic reaction to mines, a chance to use them against AI at all, but also keeps them from being guaranteed kills every single time they're dropped.

Please address this. The knee-jerk nerf they got made mines useless for any tactical purpose in a sector where NPCs might exist. This is especially true for Lightning mines. They almost never get a single zap off before being blasted.