Recognized Bobby AI "Torpedo" Mode

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    Doesn't an AI drone (in this case, a torpedo) go into "torpedo mode" automatically , if it doesn't have on-board weapon blocks? ("Torpedo Mode" meaning Charging and physically ramming a target.)
    NOPE!
    In fact, the very instant an AI with no weapons (or no functional weapons) "detects" a hostile ship, it turns around and runs the feck away.

    And since it had no "working" weapons, the only way it can detect a hostile is by extreme physical proximity.
    You very nearly could reach out and touch it.
     
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    Explosives could be weapons.
    But they currently are not.

    As he did not specify "in this new thing", it meant he was asking about how they Currently work.
    And currently they run like a bitch the moment they realize a threat to themselves exists.
     

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    I see no reason why this cannot be a thing. The great thing about Starmade is that people already have found ways to make torpedo and it is clear the players want them Why shouldn't we make it an option?