drones riles !! plus some bug in strategies.

Baron Munchausen · #1 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 · #2 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 ]

Baron Munchausen · #3 December 16th, 2003, 12:34 AM

Well, yes, AI targetting is stupid and will launch all available drones at the smallest attack. This is quite a problem for the viability of the AI since drones cannot be recovered. Some sort of targetting routine needs to be tweaked to tell the AI not to treat drones like fighters.

Pablo · #4 December 16th, 2003, 09:45 AM

I remember coming across something like "number of drones launched per ship". Maybe that would help?

se5a · #5 December 16th, 2003, 10:07 AM

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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.

oooohhhh! I see what your saying now!

Fyron · #6 December 16th, 2003, 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by Pablo:
I remember coming across something like "number of drones launched per ship". Maybe that would help?

Nope. The bug is that that is ignored, and all drones get launched. The default setting is not 1000 or something.

Patroklos · #7 December 16th, 2003, 06:42 PM

I recently started using drones seriously and have had nothing but good results. Will have to try some of the configurations and see how much more effective these weapons become.