Drones Are Useless

[tesco samoa]

I could see drones have use in a limited resouce game....

[tesco samoa]

I could see drones have use in a limited resouce game....

[Q]

I don't think drones are useless, especially not for human players and psychic races.
However IMHO they are simply too expensive in the unmodded game. A typical drone costs as much as a destroyer or even a light cruiser. Therefore it takes too long to build them. And the other point that restricts greatly their use is the lack of the "move to" order, as I said already some 1000 times .

[Crazy_Dog]

One use for drones is build a base with lots of cargo and several drone launchers (optional a shipyard to build the drones); add stealth armor/cloack.
Equip it with anti-ship drones and is a system defense.
Equip it with anti-planet drones and in case the near systems are from the enemy......

[Tezzezar]

Hmm. I think my only beef with drones is I'm not sure they do anything that I can't already do. There's nothing unique about them. I'd rather build other units.

To be fair I haven't played with them much. Maybe some special components that only drones can equip?

How about pods that launch multiple missiles one time only or Planet destroying bombs?

[jimbob]

Never used a drone,
can you retrofit them?

[Fyron]

You cannot retrofit any units, so no.