Drones vs Missiles, why not Drone Missiles.

* ok so i know im going to point out why you should not use this system when i am, but still, if you fully know the drawbacks and can accept them then go ahead.

Try maintaining a fleet of 500 attack ships (no carriers) and you will run into the same problem that carriers have.

- pay per shot
- no long range reordnance
- no supply/ordnanace (energyless ships shooting???)
- Uber Missile Planets
- less units (drones are units)
- single turn mines (Needs Checking)

ect

I use them created a custom vehicle type called missile, with appropriate properties and made 3 vehicle sizes of that type. Small, med, and large missile casings if you will. creat warhead for each casing along with an engine and viola, you have a missile. Then i made some lauchers, launchers for smaller missile hold more, larger more powerful hold less, and adjusted launch times..

then make it so only ships and WPs or w/e can use launchers and there you go..

in response to some concerns above..

make it so only large launchers can be placed on Wp's so planets not as powerful. Although in my game, missile pod with a 30 missile dealing 15 damage a hit isnt that significant. Plus upped PD damage speed on PD beam to help shoot some down.. Missiles are fast though..

make the missile strategy to ram of course, otherwise, theyll just float around..

Making ordance just adds to strategy, have to have supply ship in fleet to keep it stocked..

paying per shot is insignificant if you set the cost of the missle components and sizes to something small but realistic, like 100 radioactives for a pod launcher full of missiles (3 rad per missile), ect.. ships pay maintenace on components and weapons so its almost like paying per shot.

the energyless ships shooting, not sure what you mean.. I have ships use missile pods in ADDition to the other weapons, so ships have plenty of supplies and ordanance, the ordanance just happens to have to be built. make the Pods realistic though, like the smaller pods be 30 KT and the larger like 70-100 KT.. I also put restrictions on the amount of pods each ship can have. Kind of cheap to put 30 pods on a Baseship with and just spam missiles, again it helps to up the rate and damage of PD, but im working on the AI so they use a seperate comp that is soley for missiles.

for the unit restriction, simply up the number in settings.txt

and as far as the mine thing.. No idea what you mean, maybe you have a leftover attribute from using the drone vehicle type..

ANYWAY

I use them and theyre AWESOME

very fun to watch and also mange ans fret when you have a large dominating fleet that wins a battle on the frontier, goes to reload, only to find that the supply ship was destroyed, so now mostly ammoless minus some DUC's and getting attacked through warp point..

If someone has an idea on how to make the launchers of the missiles not launch at the start please let me know, because thats the only down side.. they get lauched at the beggining, larger missiles ok because you can restrict launch time to like 1 min between each one, so fires a Nuke, one min later another... but the smaller ones kind of get annoying as they work in numbers but you might not necessary want then to fire immediatly. W/e , its more cosmetic than anything..