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Originally posted by ZeroAdunn:
You also must consider that drones:
1. Have limited size
2. Can have point-defense used on them. (correct right? i cannot be sure but I thought this was the plan)
It will be just another aspect of the game to consider when building your empire.
More importantly, drones have a limitation that has been discussed for fighters but not (yet) implemented. They use supplies each turn no matter what. Even if they don't move, they use supplies and that means their deployment life-time is limited. And remember they cannot be recovered. So, you don't want to just sprinkle them on a warp point in the general expectation that someone might eventually attack. You only want to put them there when you know attack is imminent. Or, you have to put a ship/base on the site with cargo space and launchers. Now, if only the same thing were done with fighters, so you couldn't just leave THEM lying around.
[ 08 December 2001: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]