Drone questions!

[Q]

To confirm it once more:
In SE IV Gold Version 1.67 drones that are grouped (by right clicking) will attack together not individually.

[ July 15, 2002, 19:55: Message edited by: Q ]

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Q:
1.) Yes if you group them, they will attack at the same time.

I have heard this before, but I don't use drones much. This does work? My experience with ships that were not fleeted was that they attack seperatly, so I expected this to not work. If it doesn't work though it would be bad for the drones, so I suppose he must have changed that specifically. My tests were all pre-Gold. Hey maybe non-fleeted ships will attack simultaneously now. I should test that again.

Geoschmo

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In a simultaneous mode game I think that even drones will only attack 'together' if they have the same movement rate. And similarly ships must have the same movement rate. If you use shift-click in sequential mode to move several things -- ships, fleets, units -- they move together the first turn, but then move seperately after the first turn.

[sachmo]

Awesome! thanks a ton, guys!

[Q]

Just my observation in a turn based game:
Group of a ship with 12 movement points and a drone of 11 movement points given an attack order to a target that is 12 sectors away. The group will move 11 sectors together and then stop. The ship will not use its remaining movement point.

[ July 16, 2002, 10:18: Message edited by: Q ]

[Atrocities]

You people have actually used drones?

I guess I am a moron. I could not get them to work. Or at least I didn't try very hard to get them to work. I will have to try it again.

[steveh11]

I'm still not convinced of their utility, but I'm willing to try again in my new Proportions 2.3 game - it's possible to build up a useful stockpile of such things in that.
Steve.

[Q]

Well I hope you forgive me some shameless self-promotion, but if you try the QMod I posted in the mod section you might find drones quite useful. Especially for races that have the psychic racial trait or in my mod the assimilation trait.