Drones, noticed something odd...

[Sinapus]

Was there a plan to have small drones be 120kT instead of 100kT? Noticed that the drone launcher I had a cargo capacity of 120kT in a game earlier...

[adder_inf]

On drones, how can you attack a plant from another system? I can't get them to move unless I can see population on the planet. I hate having to send a ship to see the population just to get the drones there.

Also the drones need to be able to be put in a fleet. If you launch from under the range/turn of the drones they attack one at a time. This makes them useless verus defended plants.

[Dracus]

Drones---
To attack a planet in another system. You have to see the planet. This is the way they work.
You send a ship into the system, launch the drones and then pull the ship out. The drones will continue into the system at that point.
Once drones are launched they will continue after a target until either it is taken out or moves to another system. SInce planets can not move, it drones never lose contact once they are launched.
Think of them as IBM's.

They can be grouped upon launch, once grouped they stay grouped.

[geoschmo]

quote:

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Originally posted by Dracus:

Think of them as IBM's.

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Nuclear tipped, self guided, desktop computers? AIIYYEEEEE!!!!

[Dracus]

SInce someone will ask IBM, does that not stand for Intercontinial Balistic missles, what does that have to do with space?
IBM's----
Interglactic Bot-controled Missles


"The future is now, grab it with both hands and hold on"

[adder_inf]

ah but they do not work that way.

I had a drone launcher ship and used it that worked except for the one at a time issue.

But I launched a set of drones from a planet in another system and they stopped once the ship left the system.