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July 17th, 2002, 11:15 PM
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Re: Drone questions!
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I don't think a drone can perform stellar manipulations. That's a special function on the command bar, and I bet it can only be selected by ships or bases. This is just as well. Since drones can be made immune to mines, a drone with a star-destroyer and cloaking could be an unstoppable doomsday weapon.
If the 'special' damage types are fixed to work with warheads, that will be good enough.
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How can you make them immune to mines? Or do you mean by modding?
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July 17th, 2002, 11:27 PM
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Re: Drone questions!
It's a setting in SETTINGS.TXT like so many other things. Drones and mines can both optionally be made immune to mines.
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July 18th, 2002, 05:22 AM
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Re: Drone questions!
I'm a little confused by these references to shift-right clicks. Everything I've ever multi-selected has been with shift-left clicks; I wouldn't have expected shift-right to work at all.
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July 18th, 2002, 03:57 PM
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Re: Drone questions!
Many people get the two confused. I guess because the index finger is the 'dominant' finger on most people's hand, it's quite common to call a click of the LEFT mouse button a 'right-click' and a click of the RIGHT mouse button (with the 'other' fingers) a LEFT click.  |
July 19th, 2002, 05:15 AM
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the point defense cannons should fire automatically when the drones come into their range.
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I meant to get back to this earlier, but real-life has been seriously interfering with my ability to double-check things.
It appears to me that drones do not consistently trigger PDC; in general, it seems like they fire when the PDC ship moves, but not when the drone moves. I have never seen PDC on a weapon platform fire on a drone unless I targeted them manually in Tactical. (This was the most frustrating thing I noticed in the Drone Wars scenario.) I have seen drones start outside a ship's PDC range, then close with the ship and ram it without being fired on.
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It appears to me that drones do not consistently trigger PDC; in general, it seems like they fire when the PDC ship moves, but not when the drone moves.
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This is reported to be fixed in the latest beta history.
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