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I think I got sleeper racks to work. Basically, they are "drone mines" you bring to a destination (for example spots around your station). These drone mines are basically drone racks, but the main difference is that they have a mesh like structure (a hollow cube with holes) made of activation...

The shield makes it survive some punishment from other drones and because of the dumbfire interval it is quite good at clearing the sector of its own kind :D

Yes @Loadout , couldn't get EMP to work with any good results, especially on a support weapon :( But alas, there is hope! I have instead equipped the drone with an additional missile/cannon dumbfire pair. And the development on this one is finished - meet the "Harbinger" drone! I wanted to...

Troll drones, oh yes. In fact, I have found drones are an excellent source not only of damage, but also of (hostile) frustration. Currently experimenting with EMP effect beams as support weapons on drones. A large group of drones would theoretically slow down regen of a big target enough to make...

Proximity mines exploding in a drone swarm? you call that a dream? you heartless person :( Mass murderer! Go get 'em, my minions! Feast on their scrap!

The faction points thing got me thinking too. And my solution is going to be -- 200 mass (including turrets) heavy drones (still WIP, these) deployed in masses as sector defense (randomly floating around). Either a sleeper rack with a proximity activator (if there is any way to do this, like...

Ow, how cute :D minidrones! At a cost of only 25k you should store quite a large amount of them. Need to finish my turreted drone... took me 6 hours to design the non-turret part. Design really is tricky if you need every systems block you can have.

Oh god I have so much fun right now. All thanks to you guys :D I got a couple hours to design a turreted drone now; I also have a huge amount of lasagna and a beer right here by me. This upcoming lil' drone will be a small tad larger than my other designs, but it is meant to be a rather nasty...

I must admit turrets on drones were not something I have thought about. The usual disadvantages of turrets (die fast) don't really matter when the drone dies with one hit anyways. Still there is likely a drone count where the advantages of turrets aren't visible anymore if you have 40+...

The best spread pattern for missiles as of testing actually seems to be to put the additional ones behind the first so that they hit the target one after the other. The drilling effects are fearsome. @Gerion: mwahahar! Now I can only estimate how effective they are against non-anti-drone ships.

That is indeed the best way to handle things! Taking a temp break from flagship projects from time to time and building smaller sized ships keeps interest in the game high. You have already shown you can motivate yourself over an eternity plus a couple eons :) I currently plan a pure drone...

That is interesting. At first, I thought it had to do something with your target ship being hollow (from the looks of it). However, that does not seem to matter at all. I repeated your test against a solid target made of hardened hull... well, my drones are going to get the missile output split...

That is a neat construction site! Looks like you will end up with quite a ship :) This is very good advice in general. You develop abstract shapes and a "style" you can carry over to large ships. My two additional cents: Have a "main" hull color, a "secondary" one and a "highlight" one (or...

A heartwarming sight for a droner - if the diamonds aren't red! Are you sure you even need weapons on your titan anymore? :p More than 1:1 thrust/mass does not make sense with BOBBY (very rough testing). So they might just get even scarier now..

That is interesting - you have 1/3 the shields but twice the damage. Makes me PANIC when I think about the charon having 44 of them. Apparently the four launch tubes on the soul drone aren't fake :D I use one single guided missile per drone, although that also means point defense turrets have it...

Your punch-through will strip my drones of their systems quite fast because the drones are quite large and cuboid in shape. A second of punch-through rapidfire cannon on their hull and they might be unable to fire due to power issues or have lost their weapon computer. Your corvette better is...

@phallicabuse It is possible to have a drone-gasm, yes - unlike my "throw systems together and use first pass" previous drones, these really do wreck. I tested 10 spawned-in drones. The 10 drones cost 2.5 million, and they killed an 48 million credits ship (a 5-star community content shipwith...

Well, credit @keptick for the awesome way of making very small 4x4 thruster/missile tubes look good from a distance :D My smaller non-cuboid drones all looked too much like black plates in space until now. EDIT: This is now the rear and front view, except that shields show behind the rods now...

Then I follow you when you move away, not letting my drones leave the protective turret coverage :D Prepare your antidrone measures, I present the the current survivor of my personal Darwin Games :D SCF "Sirius" drone (9x11x11, 91 mass, partially inspired by the Soul drone): It has 8500...

Missiles only have 1 hp afaik, so weapon damage should be minimal to avoid collateral damage, I think.