Drones

[mac5732]

Cap is right, especially in early part of the game before you get your ship construction up to the higher levels, one way to help defend yourself would be with drones and ftrs.. My opinion only. It comes down to where your at as far as research and what you can afford to build especially if your at war. If at peace you have the time to build your BC, if at war you may want something you can build faster.

just some ideas mac

[steveh11]

Well, thanks for the replies, guys.

I guess I'll just have to try a few things and see how they work.

I also believe that if I'd tried looking in the html manual first instead of the printed one I'd have had my questions answered without bothering you folks

Steve.

[Skulky]

I haven't played gold too much but drones are really useful IMHO if you need fast defense but wiht some offensive capanility, kinda like mines at new colony only able to hit anythign tha tmoves in the system. And when transitioning from war to peace htey can make a big diff cause large stockpiles dont' take any maintaince IIRC and can be unleashed while u build up your fleets to war levels.

[Saxon]

Are drones effected by mines? As in, can you hit heavily mined planets with drones or breeze through mined way points? I have used them at all, but will have to check them out.

[Zarix]

Drones trigger mines. This is very bad for game balance because drones are units. As there is no partial unit damage you can sweep every possible mine field with a single drone that has more than 300 damage resistance. A medium drone with some armor is enough. Time to scrap your mine sweepers?

[dumbluck]

The new patch is supposed to fix this: mine damage from multiple warheads accumulates.

[Q]

Originally posted by Zarix:
Drones trigger mines.

You can change this in the settings file.