Drones drones drones

[oleg]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
The only thing I don't like its that the AI never use them.......

Not true. Some custom races are moded to build drones and drone carriers.

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Aloofi:
The only thing I don't like its that the AI never use them.......

Play Devnull mod with the Space Monsters. They'll show you how to use drones.

[Aloofi]

Originally posted by oleg:
Not true. Some custom races are moded to build drones and drone carriers.

I don't think I have ever played beyond 250 turns. That should be the reason why I haven't see them.

[Fyron]

The default races don't use them much. But, some modded races will use them long before turn 250.

[Pocus]

can the vets around be more precise? Do they use drones, and for which use?

[Ruatha]

Now you can use drones for recon, attack warp points.
They don't need to come home again, thus avoiding the stranded scout ship problem.

You can put alligience subverters on them, nasty.

Put solar panels on them and they Last longer.

Put beams on them and give them primary orders "some weapons range" instead of ram.

Make a cloaked drone launcher, load it with anti-planet drones, send it into your friends empires and park it in a storm, use when need arise.

If you have a surplus of minerals and mucho cargo space, build anti-ship drones to use just in case.

Generally though, they aren't all that valuable.. You won't win a game by using drones, I think.

[ May 08, 2003, 19:31: Message edited by: Ruatha ]

[Phoenix-D]

Another con for drones:

Micromanagement. LOTS of micromanagement. They don't stack and can't be combined into fleets.