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Happy new year fellow dronicians, mad scientists and labcoat warriors! :D My first project this year shall be an "anti-point-defense-drone". The basic concept is to shoot (using a rapidfire tube launcher) a massive amount of small AI-less drones (technically they aren't even drones) that just...

You can technically place a display block in the view frustum of the camera - should be especially helpful if you have broadside, frontal, landing etc cameras.

Loadout : true, high radius missiles (esp. nukes) can clear large amounts of chaff. The key to drone chaff launching is to scatter them quickly and effectively; apart from the usual launching mechanism, you need a "desmoother" beam at minimum that adds some randomness.

To make hostile AI (turrets) target the chaff drones - turrets only target units with a player in them or active AI. The faction module is for irritating only hostile turrets and no allied AI.

You mean with the docking beam hitting the rack activation module? That is actually a neat idea if the beam does not just pass through (haven't tested). Even in that case though, you could have a ship-based activation block being hit by the beam, which then undocks a core to transfer the signal...

Use overlapping docking boxes to have one projectile (dis-core-dis) per 1m of tube for maximum carnage :D That is what I will try for chaff drones (core + faction module + active AI; the minimal setup for fleet-friendly chaff)

Yeah, rails were the reason why I postponed my dedicated drone carrier again - I imagine the fun with rails + docked entities to be TOO DAMN HIGH to not go for, and it is very hard to build for a future feature without knowing any space requirements or similar. Fireshock damage beams with push...

11k shields, that is one hella expensive drone right there :D They start to cross the line where you'd think thrice before dispensing them.

That is... sort of contraproductive skoomdrone behavior :D I must say though that all my test have been pretty much "lab conditions", e.g. rather far away from any actual combat scenario vs pirates. Is it possible your two skoomdrones disabled each other? Otherwise there is no reason why one of...

Fireshock welcome aboard and thanks for your first contribution! Very interesting points here. - I really like your plexdoor toggleable turrets. Will definitely put swarm missile turrets on my larger ships and have them hidden behind plexdoors. Use small cubic turrets for this; they don't need...

No way to make BOBBY use defensive effects yet. Some can be logic wired with very marginal effects (push and pull for example, and the effect is not constant and less powerful), but cloak and jam are not AI compatible for now.

Malacodor well that would be a jump capable drone rack then :D To accomplish the same, an undockable drone rack on a carrier (undocking of the rack causes the rack to undock drones automatically) is better for that purpose and allows some structure (interior, jump systems, shields) on the...

Turns out, beams don't suck that much for removing hull indeed - thx Loadout , I gave them a chance and it seems a multioutput array of many small low damage beams obliterates system blocks. That is on an experimental unfinished new smaller drone design though. Being considerably smaller than...

I have the sudden urge to bump my dedicated drone carrier up in priority. I just realized that I have no to-date damage drone technology and must fix this :D Plan: guided missiles (primary) and stop beam (secondary) - classical proven combination. Of course some skoomdrone rapidfire launcher...

That must be a problem of the turret or ship itself then. If the AI is 100% positively active (doublecheck that), then all that could possibly be the problem is that the turret doesn't work as a normal turret either when set to "ANY" because of either line-of-sight or distance.

It would be pretty bad if PD turrets targeted your own faction's missiles :) Otherwise a ship with point defense could not use any missiles at all.

Your barreled turret looks nice, the other one is basically THE definition of doombrick. Looks neither like a ship nor a turret, completely independent of 'perspective of gameplay'. If I was a server admin I'd go /destroy_entity on that thing, sorry. If you want to know how to make large turrets...

Hull mounted can only possibly be heatseeker spam. That does work, but not for fleets :p I have found these "half buried" quadratic NuclearFun - style missile turrets to be superior to that. They can fire individually, do not fire at allies and look awesome, and because of their shape and the...

^ Agree. On the selling aspect: of course selling paint does not offer the same profit as selling colored hull. But the equivalent of selling colored hull Lecic would then be selling grey hull + paint. If someone wishes to add 20000 red advanced armor to his ship, they'd still need both. Unless...

I got the impression turrets (and all AI for that matter) aim rather precisely at one and the same spot which is offset some from the actual target diamond. This is good to see on point defense turrets, which (when in an unfortunate angle to the missile path) always fail at hitting the target by...