Missiles as units (a.k.a microdrones)

[Baron Munchausen]

There are limitations to this approach. The biggest problem is that you cannot choose the target of a drone.

You can't target a particular type of ship or even nearer/further, larger/smaller, or whatever else on the fly in combat. Drones will follow their pre-set strategy no matter what.

Drones might automatically choose to attack a ship that you want to capture by boarding.

Even anti-ship drones might turn on a planet if there are no ships left. What if you want to capture that planet? Even if the anti-ship drones do less damage than anti-planet drones they could do enough damage on a small planet to destroy it before you can capture it.

The automatic re-targetting can be a disadvantage in all of the above situations, too.

[ June 12, 2002, 22:09: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]