With Loyalist Advent all the mines your opponents build are a gift to you: they become your mines in their gravwells. Easier than disabling options.

I use the cheap corvettes as suicide minesweepers. Considering you can get five corvettes for about the same price as one mine cluster, and each corvette can take at least a few mines, they make a pretty good tradeoff to protect your heavier ships.

Well, I'm focusing on early game raids before a Titan can launch. Once you get an Ankylon out the gate, mines aren't as big a priority for me. It's the early attacks where every ship counts and mines are a hassle.

150 mines means 1500 points of experience for the taking

Great way to level up a titan, just have a scout moving with it and the rest will happen by itself

I actually saw them doing it just now during a game. It does work, eventually. You can kind of leave the scout there after clearing the other defenses and it'll eventually get the job done, but it's pretty slow.

If you move the scouts yourself near the mines its actually pretty quick. It is still annoying if every planet you hit requires clearing

The real annoying problem for me is the homing mines (advent) it is very dificult for disable, because the range of the scout is the same of the mines, so you most disable it with so much caution .

With TEC and Vasari mines, just put the scout near in old-position with some fleet and see how the mines disappears in the gravity well  .

But i think is no necessary put a switch.

Haha, wait till someone gets the ingenious idea to mine the next sun. That well can be filled with 500 of them .

teaming scouts with flak can help speed up the mine clearing.

edit: I thought the massive mine behavior was fixed in Diplomacy.  Perhaps an alternative to disabling mines would be a lower limit on how many can be placed in a gravity well so you have to be more strategic about where you place them.  I actually observe the AI doing this, placing mines around key structures.  Would 5-7 mines fields be reasonable?  Has anyone tried something like this in a mod?

someone mentioned a small group of scouts and flaks - that works, but you can also speed things along by using navpoints.  Click a location near the mines using the mouse and the shift key and then move to the next location, etc etc.  Then let them do the thing they do.  They will more in the preset pattern detroying mines as they go.

I also use the same tactic to set mines when I use the Advent and Vasari.