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Slightly unrelated, this simple measure will make swarm missile spam an invalid measure vs drones. PD turret spam :D A very large amount of PD turrets that target missiles and have a very weak cannon/cannon weapon will not only pretty much clear the air of swarm missile clusters, but also not do...

Oh keptick oh keptick, you give me ideas. Although these of mine are currently rather ret*rded and very early in R&D: 1. Actual magazine approach, with one main launch tube and a magazine that has a logic storage for the current position and will guide the skoomdrone at position i into the...

Take a myriad of likes! This would make animated weapons and effects a possibility. Plex door gatling animations? Death star beam convergence light effects! And of course stuff like multiple different weapon arrays fired with one computer. Or weapon computers with 0 modules to activate logic...

Good point on beams not adding dps. I should cut the remaining 5 or so ones during one of the (many) coming drone passes. From the image, the soul drones look slightly larger than mine - sorta Xx9x15? I noticed I could do with a little more missile damage on mine (currently 5k) so I might...

Although it should be noted that a ship that needs 3-10M regen but not more will never be able to shield these generators from missiles. Unless you really do build a titan, there is no point to having generators - a single missile past your shields can ruin your day. The thread nicely explains...

I believe around 1M regen is where the box dimension feature slowly is replaced by mere total block count. My 2M regen experimental ship just gains 25regen per block no matter what. I usually build the first M generator style and then add power blocks to random places later. Note that this...

A repair hangar, that is sweet stuff :O (also looks kewl)

Out of interest, what sizes are your drones? 7x11x13 here, debating to go 7x13x15 or similar. A drone when attacked will not survive long anyways - fairly sure testing will show that an offensive focus is better on drones. If a drone of mine can oneshot another with it's guided missile (note...

I love how this started as a concept, first implementations were messy as heck, and now drone R&D has spawned implementations so cost effective, MP applicable and downright powerful that people are in serious need of working countermeasures (if they do not mass drone themselves). *raises a glass...

Turrets inside ships surely won't work forever. Not a future proof strategy, and a cheap one, too ;) Turret corridors and turret "pockets" in the hull are fine though. I design my ships so that even if turrets actually needed a line of sight to even notice a target, they would still work.

Hmm good point on the way the game handles stuck collisions. This might be too much to want, and the drone would have to be docked in an exterior spacious port due to the plex hooks. I hope it becomes possible one day - the evil is just sooo damn tasty! "Stuck" collisions do afaik end in both...

When I return on sunday, I shall build facehuggers! Mwahahahahar!

Makes me wish for a "glue" block. Adhesive skoomseekers - oh the evil! Only option I could think of now is using plex door "grappling hooks" that activate when the drone is almost colliding with something. Could that work? Think alien facehuggers.

My downsized version of the drone mix will be 24 swarm drones and 2 heavy fighter ones, then. Too bad I won't have space for multi purpose launch tubes :D Maybe a fleet will indeed do well if there is a "skoombringer" corvette with a launch tube involved. Still no usable computer till end of...

Ye, explosive effect against drones will, even if the core does not overheat, kill enough systems quickly to make the drone a floating piece of crap. I wonder what the most optimal drone size is. Mixture of small drones and heavy fighter drones perhaps? The former would come as a rack, the...

Well, your support corvette might fit a very interesting role. It would sure be a pain for my current project to handle, as it appears I have hit the turning speed box modifier caps, and thus need the drones against ships of that size (after all the drone hangar makes for low shields for the...

The war has begun! Drone R&D vs AntiDrone R&D. Will drones retain their stunning effectiveness? Will countermeasures successfully hold them back? The answer to that and more in the next episode of The Swarm! Reason enough to make my droneship destroyer field some yet to be researched...

Do it for science! :D I intend to switch from Mb drones to logic driven Mc - no PD turret array will be able to keep up with the spam!

With guiding I think @keptick meant adjusting rotation states to make the drones face the hostiles. The only thing the AI is good for :D So much left to test sometime. Like rapidfire dumb missiles with a clock pulling the trigger and the bobby just doing the aiming. Give the bobby AI an...

The skoomseeker is far nastier than kamikaze drones - it doesn't die by itself :D