Drones Are Useless

[Orthogonal]

mmm, I did not notice the planetary warhead thing, pretty clever! Good eye.

minipol, you can do all sorts of thing with them. You can use them "long range" by having a spotter in an enemy system, and send the drones (with a solar collector) as remote planet killers - right from a forward base where you construct them. You can also use cloaked (or hidden-in-storms) drone carriers to pounce on stragglers. One of my Favorites is to disable AI ships of engines and leave them in space taking maintenance and the AI sometimes never comes to repair the ship - huge maintenance cost!

I don't guard warp points with drones, though, unless under durress... sattelites are the more cost/supply effective for that.

I generally don't "fleet" drone carriers together with "general" fleet warships, I run them in separate "droner" fleets, or as single pirateers.

cheers.

Orthogonal