I finally thought of a use for drones!

geoschmo · #1 January 20th, 2003, 11:32 PM

Not to mention PDC gets a bonus to hit and can target drones. But it's a good try.

atari_eric · #2 January 20th, 2003, 11:54 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
...But what I forgot about is Stealth Armor and Scattering Armor - those provide an additional +30 to defense that my ships have but if I try to put them on a drone then I have to sacrifice too many engines and the drone can't keep up with enemy ships... So in the end it only comes out my drones are 20% harder to hit than my ships... which is a little help, but not much...

Hmm, it's almost worth spitting out decoy drones with nothing but junk and engines... though that may not even work if the other drones can be determined to be more dangerous...

tbontob · #3 January 21st, 2003, 12:21 AM

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.

tbontob · #4 January 21st, 2003, 12:22 AM

But Ed....

I am a bit unclear what the issue is about the shields?

Fyron · #5 January 21st, 2003, 12:37 AM

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

PvK · #6 January 21st, 2003, 12:20 PM

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

PvK

Pax · #7 January 21st, 2003, 07:23 PM

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.