Drones

[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by tbontob:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Once a drone has been launched, it cannot be recovered. Once it has been given orders, those orders cannot be revoked.

This is all true. however, I think new orders can be issued to a drone which has completed all previous orders and survived: For example if it was ordered to go through a warp point and survived, or if it attacked a ship/ planet and survived.

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I thought a drone cannot be ordered to move to a specific location such as a warp point. Instead it must be assigned a target.

Have I got it wrong?

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You're right, it does have to be assigned a target. Dogscoff is getting ahead of himself, in a fashion, and already including the ability of drones to "attack" warp points, which behaves to them in a similar way as the warp order, it would seem. Of course, us regular mortals won't get to see that in action until the next patch.

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Hotfoot:

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Originally posted by tbontob:

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Originally posted by dogscoff:

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Once a drone has been launched, it cannot be recovered. Once it has been given orders, those orders cannot be revoked.

This is all true. however, I think new orders can be issued to a drone which has completed all previous orders and survived: For example if it was ordered to go through a warp point and survived, or if it attacked a ship/ planet and survived.

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I thought a drone cannot be ordered to move to a specific location such as a warp point. Instead it must be assigned a target.

Have I got it wrong?

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You're right, it does have to be assigned a target. Dogscoff is getting ahead of himself, in a fashion, and already including the ability of drones to "attack" warp points, which behaves to them in a similar way as the warp order, it would seem. Of course, us regular mortals won't get to see that in action until the next patch.

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Hotfoot, I am a bit confused. On the one hand, you seem to say drones can "attack" warp points and thereby move through them. And on the other hand, you say we cannot do it until the next patch.

Which is it?

[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Hotfoot, I am a bit confused. On the one hand, you seem to say drones can "attack" warp points and thereby move through them. And on the other hand, you say we cannot do it until the next patch.

Which is it?

We will be able to do it when the next patch gets released. Some of us (myself not included) have the dubious honor of beta testing the patch, and thus are able to do this now. Some of them, however, seem to forget that the rest of us are not reading the same edition of the book just yet.

In the next patch, drones will be able to "attack" warp points to move through them. This is what we will be able to do with drones, and what some people are able to do with drones.

[tbontob]

Ahh...so

Some of "us" are on the fast track...

And forget where they are!

[tbontob]

Somewhat related to the question which started this thread....

Let's say I have 5 drones in a planets cargo. And they are all of the same kind. Is there any way to launch only 1 drone?

Or is the only choice I have...launch all drones or none?

[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Somewhat related to the question which started this thread....

Let's say I have 5 drones in a planets cargo. And they are all of the same kind. Is there any way to launch only 1 drone?

Or is the only choice I have...launch all drones or none?

The same way you'd launch one fighter, or one sat, or one mine. Launch x1

[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by tbontob:
Somewhat related to the question which started this thread....

Let's say I have 5 drones in a planets cargo. And they are all of the same kind. Is there any way to launch only 1 drone?

Or is the only choice I have...launch all drones or none?

In simultaneous move mode, yes, you have no choice but to launch all drones in the planet's cargo just like all satellites on a planet are launched if you give it the order to launch. The way around this is to build cargo bases and keep most of your drones in those, moving only what you want to launch onto the planet -- or conversely to build launcher bases and move what you want to launch to those. The problem with the first solution is that your big, fat, juicy cargo bases might get pasted by attacking forces, costing you lots of drones. The problem with the 'converse' is that planets will automatically launch every drone or fighter in cargo when attacked. Fighters are recoverable, drones are not.

[ November 13, 2002, 03:30: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]