Drones

[Q]

Has anybody (especially Beta-testers) heard something about drones lately?
I miss them everytime when I would like to know what is on the other side of a warp point without risking a full ship.

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, drones are supposed to be added at some future time. Since they are very complicated it depends on when other things are under control. Even MM doesn't know whan this will be, so no one can tell you when drones will appear.

[Q]

Thank you for this information Baron Munchhausen. I hope it will not be to long till we see them in the game.

[Zanthis]

Is there any word on what drones will be? It sounds like Q wants small unmanned ships. I favor the "build your own seeker" Version. Any idea which way it will go?

[Q]

Actually I would like to see something like a fighter that can travel through warp points, but cannot be recovered and would be selfdestroyed after a fixed time. You could use for this drone all available components of the fighters or even new ones like small scanners and cloaking devices. So you might use drones as reconnaissance units or as long distance seekers for attact. Anyway they should be rather cheap as fighter are now. Launching them would be possible from planets and with special components (drone bay) also from ships. That would be my suggestions, but I have no idea what MM plans to do.

[Atrocities]

Q, you can make those yourself. Just create a new ship class, and copy one of the fighter images and rename it as your new fighter. You will have to create one of these ships for each race file including neutrals. Its really easy to do. Good luck.