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tbontob

January 21st, 2003 12:21 AM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Whwewwwwwwww

(tbontob wipes his brow)

(tbontob reduces the number of times he is looking over his shoulder to see if Ed Kolis is drawing a bead on him with his drones. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

tbontob

January 21st, 2003 12:22 AM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

But Ed....

I am a bit unclear what the issue is about the shields? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Fyron

January 21st, 2003 12:37 AM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

All units treat shields as a part of their hit points, not actually as shields.

PvK	January 21st, 2003 12:20 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

High-tech drones with lots of defense bonus and structure can be ... consequential. I have a few uses for drones. ;-)

PvK

Pax	January 21st, 2003 07:23 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Emissive Armor III makes Drones fairly hard to kill with PDC alone (except with hideous numbers of PDC of course). Yes, even just a single component.

Q	January 21st, 2003 08:50 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Quote:

Originally posted by Pax:
Emissive Armor III makes Drones fairly hard to kill with PDC alone (except with hideous numbers of PDC of course). Yes, even just a single component.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">As far as I know emissive armor does not work on units. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Dralasite

January 21st, 2003 09:02 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Troops can have emissive armor, so hopefully they at least work on some units. Don't know about drones, however.

Since units are just a damange point total, does the brokenness of emissive armor not apply to them?

Q	January 21st, 2003 09:47 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Quote:

Originally posted by Dralasite:
Troops can have emissive armor, so hopefully they at least work on some units. Don't know about drones, however.

Since units are just a damange point total, does the brokenness of emissive armor not apply to them?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That is exactely the point: for SE combat calculation units do not have shields or armor but they just have a total of xx hit points. You can put emissive armor on troops fighters, weapon platforms, sats, drones and they will add to the total damage resistence but the emissive ability will not work as far as I know.

rextorres

January 22nd, 2003 08:59 AM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Also as far as I know units don't get racial bonuses. Drones are great for warp point defense though.

Ed Kolis

January 22nd, 2003 10:00 PM

Re: I finally thought of a use for drones!

Warp point DEFENSE?!? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/confused.gif You mean like really, really big mines? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif But wouldn't they run out of supply? Or do you put a solar panel on them...

edit: That's IT! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif The solution to the mine balance problem! Implement mines as small drones! Then they have a chance of being shot down! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

[ January 22, 2003, 20:02: Message edited by: Ed Kolis ]

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