Jst droneing on

Slick · #1 March 18th, 2003, 02:35 AM

pooched?! LOL!

Yeah, you have to look at their advantages, which have already been mentioned, and use them appropriately. One huge advantage that has not yet been mentioned is that you can build them anywhere that you have extra cargo room; i.e. you don't need a spaceyard to build drones (or any other units) and thus you can build them in large numbers when you have some cash to burn and not have to worry about clogging up your spaceyards.

Slick.

p.s. I was going to say "en masse" instead of "in large numbers", but I am boycotting French. j/k

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 18th, 2003, 03:31 AM

Shift-Clicking for a temporary fleeting effect is cruicial. They will act like a fleet for up to one turn or until their orders are complete.

You can also use it to send multiple fleets of ships in at the same time.

For major assaults, sending in a pile of drones along with your ships will help a lot.

Taera · #3 March 18th, 2003, 04:25 AM

it might be good to put drones on your ships, with DONT LAUNCH strategy and use them to intercept those annoying colony ships, transports, limping enemies and so on.

Zarix · #4 March 18th, 2003, 03:29 PM

Drones are very good for defending warp points. When the enemy warps the point defence of the enemy has usually only one turn to kill your drones before the drones ram.

To make drones even better try making them different. A drone with a lot of armor can take a lot of damage. Drones have a built in +50% defence bonus so with EMC the defend bonus gets quite large. One drone takes out at least one mine so they can be used to sweep small mine fields.

In current Version (1.84) there is a bug in drones that makes them warp one at a time so attacking through a warp point is useless.

gregebowman · #5 March 18th, 2003, 05:53 PM

As one who's never used drones before, these tips make it sound very tempting to do so in the future. I think I'll try drones out the next time I start a game.

JLS · #6 March 18th, 2003, 07:18 PM

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Originally posted by Zarix:
To make drones even better try making them different. A drone with a lot of armor can take a lot of damage. Drones have a built in +50% defence bonus so with EMC the defend bonus gets quite large. One drone takes out at least one mine so they can be used to sweep small mine fields.

This makes for a great planet buster

Atrocities · #7 March 18th, 2003, 07:27 PM

I have come to really love DRONES.

I have learned the hard way how to use them, and now that I know, I really like them. I love glassing AI worlds from two sectors away. (Damn PDC's)