I dont know if this idea has been posted before, but expansions added minefields, great idea, except when someone fills the entire gravity well with mines ... i cant shoot them, i have to run my ships through them to get rid of them, or build something ontop of them, not very efficient, exceedingly time consuming and it has the potential to make an entire gravity well useless unless i spend a large amount of time micro-ing my ships into the mines.
there needs to be a ship that each faction can deploy to a recently conquered planet that can clear out mines, or perhaps add half-life on mines that causes them to self destruct when they are in an unfriendly star-system?