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Old October 17th, 2003, 08:12 PM
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Default Re: Ninja Drones

The main issue that comes to mind is that drone launchers fire all their drones in combat at full speed, so you can get your enemy to launch all their drone ammo by attacking with a single unit. You end up having to be careful, and store some reserves in ships that have no launchers, etc.

AI is a lot of work, but if someone were interested, I think it might be possible to get the AI to build multiple types of drones. I'd do it using bogus ability labels and then the hard part - getting it to design and build more than one model of drone - I'm not sure if the unit construction file responds to requests for specific unit classes or not (works for ships - not sure for units).

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