Drones

[dogscoff]

Rather than remove the possibility of having plague bombs on drones, I'd rather some kind of defensive counter-measure was made: Some kind of weapons platform mount or counter-drone or something that would give a planet a good chance of repelling the attack.

Oh and troops/ boarding parties on drones would also be cool, but they should have limited range (using supplies maybe?). Imagine having a drone-launcher baseship sitting out of the planet's range spewing waves and waves of troop-drop-drones.

Another cool thing (that we'll never see implemented=-) would be if you could use (cloaked?) drones to deposit intel operatives on enemy planets...

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
Rather than remove the possibility of having plague bombs on drones, I'd rather some kind of defensive counter-measure was made: Some kind of weapons platform mount or counter-drone or something that would give a planet a good chance of repelling the attack.

Something like a weapon that (maybe - just ideas here):

• is only available for weapon platforms
• only targets drones
• is counted as PDC (?)
• has mount options available, similar to regular direct-fire weapon mounts
• does enough damage per round to significantly damage drones

I haven't looked to see how moddable those items are, nor have I come up with appropriate size/damage figures (supply use is irrelevant, since I'd prefer to limit to weapon platform use).

[Krsqk]

You can restrict them to WPs and set to only target drones. I don't know if the PDC auto-fire routine would work with weapons not set to target seekers (I know it doesn't for ship-targeting weapons). The mounts are no problem, except for us stupid humans who forget to look for mounts.

[von_toaster]

A couple of sats with PDCs and combat sensors should do the trick. Quite frankly I stand by my evilness and I think we should be able to put plague bombs on drones.
To counter-act, put a base with a medical bay on it. And by the way, why can't we put medical bays on Weapon Platforms (or anyway, why isn't there a facility that can be like a medical bay?)

[Hotfoot]

Originally posted by von_toaster:
(or anyway, why isn't there a facility that can be like a medical bay?)

There is, but only in the Organic tech tree, IIRC