Minelaying and large quantities

[brygun]

For some of the real world armed merchants they carried over a 100 mines where as we have limits like a 3,000 ton AMC can only carry 60 mines. They carried these below decks.

The number of mines per ton is also a bit blurred by 1 ton per mine.

The current allowment seems reasonable for warships like DD and CL which keep alot of other equipment in their hulls.

There could perhaps be a tickbox for interior mine storage that adds the ability to store more mines inside but creating a larger magazine hit box.

Im not sure if this would unbalancing the minelaying/minesweeping functions of the AI.

It would also be nice if we had a better idea of how the ML/MS scores actually play out. 

[brygun]

As an idea in the designer make the following changes

= Where it says Mines change to Ready Gear
= Add a box for Reserve Gear (default zero)
= Have a box showing the # Minescore
= Minescore being 1 per Ready Gear tonnage and 1/2 or 1/3 for reserve gear

This roughly representing how many mines can be quickly deployed in a dash attack vs large stores being kept below deck. This assumes that reserve mines would be dropped in a later pass or on a later day possibly in a different area.
Only the Ready Gear affects deck space calculation. The reserve gear doesnt.

This also hides the # of mines per ton of mine gear which has always seemed odd

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Option:
Instead of picking the tons of Reserve Mine Gear it can be something like "Mine Reloads" which provides a multiplier on the mine score at decreasing rates like 1.6, 2.1, 2.5, 2.8, 3 (steps of +.6, +.5, +.4 etc). The weight though is x1 per step 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. Giving a decreasing return per tons of mine gear in reserve as large mine fields once known aren't as much of a surprise and new mine fields take moving about more.