Jst droneing on

Taera · #1 March 18th, 2003, 04:25 AM

it might be good to put drones on your ships, with DONT LAUNCH strategy and use them to intercept those annoying colony ships, transports, limping enemies and so on.

Zarix · #2 March 18th, 2003, 03:29 PM

Drones are very good for defending warp points. When the enemy warps the point defence of the enemy has usually only one turn to kill your drones before the drones ram.

To make drones even better try making them different. A drone with a lot of armor can take a lot of damage. Drones have a built in +50% defence bonus so with EMC the defend bonus gets quite large. One drone takes out at least one mine so they can be used to sweep small mine fields.

In current Version (1.84) there is a bug in drones that makes them warp one at a time so attacking through a warp point is useless.

gregebowman · #3 March 18th, 2003, 05:53 PM

As one who's never used drones before, these tips make it sound very tempting to do so in the future. I think I'll try drones out the next time I start a game.

JLS · #4 March 18th, 2003, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by Zarix:
To make drones even better try making them different. A drone with a lot of armor can take a lot of damage. Drones have a built in +50% defence bonus so with EMC the defend bonus gets quite large. One drone takes out at least one mine so they can be used to sweep small mine fields.

This makes for a great planet buster

Atrocities · #5 March 18th, 2003, 07:27 PM

I have come to really love DRONES.

I have learned the hard way how to use them, and now that I know, I really like them. I love glassing AI worlds from two sectors away. (Damn PDC's)

Ed Kolis · #6 March 18th, 2003, 07:38 PM

By the way, if you want to put stuff other than warheads on your drones (like say nullspace cannons), it would be a good idea to change their strategy from the default of "ram" to something more useful - no sense seeing your expensive drones fire once, then ram their expensive fancy weapons into the enemy

Baron Munchausen · #7 March 18th, 2003, 07:54 PM

The largest part of the expense for drones is the engines. These can be more than half of the cost of a drone! A small mod to the game can make drones much more practical. Either create a special, cheaper engine just for drones or make a mount that reduces the cost of regular engines for drones.