drones riles !! plus some bug in strategies.

Fyron · #1 December 15th, 2003, 07:11 PM

Isn't the entire goal of the Drone hull to fire its weapons once and then ram the target? It seems like a much bigger exploit to me to be able to use them in a non-ramming capacity.

se5a · #2 December 15th, 2003, 07:40 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Isn't the entire goal of the Drone hull to fire its weapons once and then ram the target? It seems like a much bigger exploit to me to be able to use them in a non-ramming capacity.

if that were the case then other wepons would not be availible to put on drones.

Baron Munchausen · #3 December 15th, 2003, 08:49 PM

Satellites mounted with seekers offer the same sort of 'advantage' as drones. They are absolutely devastating as warp point defenses against seeker using races like the default Jraenar or Toltayan.

I'd be interested to know how drones react to all the various strategies other than 'ram'. Has anyone experimented? I've never bothered to use any other strategies with them.

But mounting seekers is a clever way to give them some 'chaff' while they close in to ram. Too bad seekers are so large and drones are so small. It eats up a lot of precious space. Mounting them with PDC makes them much more resistant to fighters, btw.

Fyron · #4 December 15th, 2003, 10:20 PM

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Originally posted by se5a:

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Isn't the entire goal of the Drone hull to fire its weapons once and then ram the target? It seems like a much bigger exploit to me to be able to use them in a non-ramming capacity.

if that were the case then other wepons would not be availible to put on drones.

Umm... if that were the case, they would be allowed, as they would get to shoot once before the ramming... which is exactly what I said. Warheads can not shoot at all.

Loser · #5 December 15th, 2003, 10:37 PM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
...mounting seekers is a clever way to give them some 'chaff' while they close in to ram.

Oooh... once a nice Missle Mod comes out you could use this to create self-chaffing missles, or MIRV.

Baron Munchausen · #6 December 15th, 2003, 10:43 PM

Well, yeah, come to think of it, you could mod a special 'chaff' type seeker just for drones. Make it 20-30 kt and fires every other or every round, but does very little damage. Maybe 10 points or so. Just lots of little seekers to over-load PDC.

oleg · #7 December 16th, 2003, 12:05 AM

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Well, yeah, come to think of it, you could mod a special 'chaff' type seeker just for drones. Make it 20-30 kt and fires every other or every round, but does very little damage. Maybe 10 points or so. Just lots of little seekers to over-load PDC.

Light missile system in Proportions is close to it except for the larger size (60kt). I am currently experimenting with sprint missiles (speed=12) on drones. looks promising

But drones still have an achiles heel - drones can easily be provoked buy a small sized atack with a sole purpose to trigger the loads of drones for self-destruction

[ December 15, 2003, 22:08: Message edited by: oleg ]