Recovering Drones

solops · #1 October 27th, 2002, 09:59 PM

I do not seem to be able to recover drones. My drone "carrier" is based on a BB hull. The drones were created as "units". If this question has come up before, as I am sure it has, I could not find it.

help?

[ October 27, 2002, 20:01: Message edited by: solops ]

Baron Munchausen · #2 October 27th, 2002, 10:14 PM

Drones are not recoverable. That's the way they were intended to work.

solops · #3 October 28th, 2002, 02:04 AM

OoooooooooH....that is interesting....if you know someone has a large number of drone carriers moving in a contested system, you could hit him with throw-away forces and causeing the drones to be deployed (simultaneous combat) before the carriers reach their intended destinations, right?

Hotfoot · #4 October 28th, 2002, 03:44 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Drones are not recoverable. That's the way they were intended to work.

This presents a bit of a problem then. In the latest patch, it would seem that if given the opprotunity to do so, ships capable of launching drones can launch all of their drones in one turn, regardless of how many they're supposed to be able to launch per game turn. So if a ship disgorges all of its drones in combat, it can't ever pick them up again. I guess this means limited the drone launcher to having only a few drones on board when you don't intend on using them, and then loading them up with tons of drones from cargo ships right before they hit their intended target.

Skulky · #5 October 28th, 2002, 05:16 AM

FINALLY a use for supply ships, i've always wanted the need for massive hulking cargo ships to resupply my drone fleets, now off to reinventing "Drone Wars", it'll be gr8 when im dun

Hotfoot · #6 October 28th, 2002, 05:20 AM

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Originally posted by Skulky:
FINALLY a use for supply ships, i've always wanted the need for massive hulking cargo ships to resupply my drone fleets, now off to reinventing "Drone Wars", it'll be gr8 when im dun

Finally? Heck, I've found plenty of uses for dedicated cargo ships in my fleets. Everything from carrying additional troops/fighters/sats/mines to resupply your losses in the field to picking up/transporting the population of a conquered planet to a more appropriate location.

While the inclusion of drones was an obvious next step, I'm not particularly very happy that it has to be included as the result of what is most likely a bug.