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With AI being able to actually use their ranged weapons effectively, you have the perfect venue for being annoying: With the default sector size, you can dump Cannon/Beam and missile/Beam drones into a sector close to your target and watch them pling at it. Accuracy for the cannons isnt great...

Drones do damage, everything else is a bonus... Also, thanks to how Starmade works, you can equip literally every ship with at least one drone or more. Or a rack Or a rack container Or you just fire drone racks with timed activators through a warpgate. That be fun ;)

The investment on shields is big enough that until the rest of the ship is somehow valuable, you shouldnt bother with them....

Single-rocket drones without shields maybe? That would cut down on cost quite dramatically, and drones really dont benefit from protection. The rockets are there to tear enemy ships apart when you killed its shields.

You know, the new economy system is both good and bad for drones. You always have losses, even against smaller ships, so replenishing your swarm after each attack takes resources. So the enemy will most likely not lose a ship without doing some damage against you (think multiple swarm missile...

we already did that stuff ;) Just metal cubes composed of cheap materials jettisoned towards the enemy. Confusing targeting systems, turrets, drones, even players. Works like a charm.

the chance of hitting a swarm missile with a shotgun is... lets just say, not great. Still not sure about the targeting, it seems wrong, then its better the next moment, then the drones derp out and shoot each other (what the fuck happened there I do not know)

Here is something weird: I had a decrease in drone efficency due to the last patches... Seems like the turrets are targeting better (as in: not like dumb bricks). Can someone confirm that? (No changes to config). Also, nekroing this awesome thread. Deal with it, mods! ;)

Hm... Thats a lot of waste material i guess.... Maybe if you could recycle the rocks and other stuff to get a random shard or ore that would cut down on the time required. At hefty exchange rates, of course.

So, one of the bigger complains about the new buy-with-blocks-system is that it punishes decoration and nifty design by having the need to craft about 5000 new block types for every ship. Lets cut that down a bit, shall we? Firstly: Deco blocks (and armor, for that matter) shouldnt be crafted...

Here is a thing I am thinking (strange, right?): Cores docked to turret dockers inside the ship. If i remember correctly, you can build into the turret area as long as the turret is smaller. These docked cores then serve to confuse drones and lock-on systems, especially when build into...

So, any test results for dockable armour-plate-drone-trigger-machineries?

As I suspected. Smaller vessels really dont need such a system, since when they come under fire, they will just die. And for the bigger ships it works, so all fine in droneland. Plus all the bug fixes, armour plates please ;)

Just a core takes 30 seconds to be destroyed (i think). Plenty of time to blow up the rest of the ship. Iam still thinking another core on that core plus area trigger on the main ship would make for a faster response.

smaller point defense turrets then? You know, the kind you have to get rid off before nuking a ship. If you dont have a weapon that doesnt do area damage, you will trigger the defense mechanism and have drones swarming you. Of coarse, we are still talking about something that throws out your...

Yes, but at that point the damage shouldnt be overly big anymore, right? Small enough to be tanked by the shields. It is used with "(part of) the plate gets destroyed, logic activates in the main ship to eject drones". Its just for the event your ship gets attacked while you are not there. Not...

True, but once that bug is fixed, those should work great. Especially against people using 100% ion weaponry to destroy shields (which then fail to destroy the plating), then nuke the core. With these, you will need 2 nukes to destroy a ship, more if the ship actively moves around and presents a...

That automatic drone launching system looks a bit... clumsy? It will most likely eat a missile and be destroyed in most cases. What is with dockable armour plates? Basically rather thick plates of armoured hull with minimal shields and power docked to a turret port. It then has area triggers...

I was summoned, now I am looking at that titan again... Thanks @Thalanor, I didnt want to do anything but drool over this ship today anyways....

Who shoots only one missile (unless its a pulsemissile)? Anyway, I guess it would be interesting to not have missiles. If just for the kill-weapons people would device to get the effect back. Rapid fire explosive cannons someone?