Do drones always ram? |
Hi!
I'm experimenting with drones, and am encountering a problem. Whether or not they're armed with warheads, they insist on ramming enemy ships, even when they're equipped with capital ship missiles and have the stock "Maximum Weapons Range" strategy enabled. The drones in question are very basic: a CSM, two Ion Engines, and a single Drone Computer Core. I'm running 1.33 with the Balance Mod 1.05.
Is ramming inherent to all drones? Am I doing (or not doing) something wrong? Or is this a bug?
Thanks!
Re: Do drones always ram?
The Drone entry in VehicleUnitSizes.txt has a setting Seek Target and Ram, which overrides virtually all strategies. I'll probably change it for the next update.
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Re: Do drones always ram?
If you load a drone with engines and set it to "dont get hurt" the only thing in the stock game that can catch it is a fighter, making the perfect scout w/o stealth technologies.
Also, i've found that a drone with:
1x computer core
1x ion engine
2x anti-matter torpedo
2x point defense cannons
2x armor
is an extremely cost effective way to swarm your enemies, assuming you have some drone carriers
~ Kingside
Re: Do drones always ram?
As far as I know, drones can only follow two strategies: Kamikaze and Don't get hurt. I never figured out how to get them to shoot from a distance, other than just taking away most of their engines. Actually that is a fairly effective strategy anyway, cuz it makes them cheaper to build.
If you load a drone with engines and set it to "dont get hurt" the only thing in the stock game that can catch it is a fighter, making the perfect scout w/o stealth technologies.
Also, i've found that a drone with:
1x computer core
1x ion engine
2x anti-matter torpedo
2x point defense cannons
2x armor
is an extremely cost effective way to swarm your enemies, assuming you have some drone carriers