Honestly, i have no problem with the mining explode or disarm sound and i dont know how the disscusion turned in this direction. I only have a problem with the non intuitive mining system and its inherent overmining by newbies/trolls. Every 7 lost pub games, a game is lost ONLY due to stupid mining/overmining/lack of understanding where to put the mines which is just really frustrating...
In a PUG- like game, the mining system is alright, which is a bit of a problem in this thread, as it seems that several ppl in this thread mostly argue due to their experience in PUG games. (with 99% very good players)
The mechanics should be, however not targetted at pro players only, but also at new players. (If we ever want more than 1 active server...
(any new system could have the same alarm volume IMO, there s no problem with that..)