Drone questions!

[Atrocities]

You people have actually used drones?

I guess I am a moron. I could not get them to work. Or at least I didn't try very hard to get them to work. I will have to try it again.

[steveh11]

I'm still not convinced of their utility, but I'm willing to try again in my new Proportions 2.3 game - it's possible to build up a useful stockpile of such things in that.
Steve.

[Q]

Well I hope you forgive me some shameless self-promotion, but if you try the QMod I posted in the mod section you might find drones quite useful. Especially for races that have the psychic racial trait or in my mod the assimilation trait.

[PvK]

Drones can be used quite effectively, if used intelligently and skillfully. They aren't a replacement for ships - they have different strengths and weaknesses.

PvK

[Skulky]

I think it would be very cool to be able to put planet blower upers on them, then they oculd actually do something rather than just ram people.

Or, better yet, along the lines of teh genisis device thread a while back (too lazy to find)

[Baron Munchausen]

I don't think a drone can perform stellar manipulations. That's a special function on the command bar, and I bet it can only be selected by ships or bases. This is just as well. Since drones can be made immune to mines, a drone with a star-destroyer and cloaking could be an unstoppable doomsday weapon.

If the 'special' damage types are fixed to work with warheads, that will be good enough.

Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
I don't think a drone can perform stellar manipulations. That's a special function on the command bar, and I bet it can only be selected by ships or bases. This is just as well. Since drones can be made immune to mines, a drone with a star-destroyer and cloaking could be an unstoppable doomsday weapon.

If the 'special' damage types are fixed to work with warheads, that will be good enough.

How can you make them immune to mines? Or do you mean by modding?

Mark