The ultimate drone R&D thread

[jzimmerman4]

Wait we are showing off drones?? :D

Spoiler: Manticore Drone

Spoiler: Ismenian Drone

Spoiler: Siren Drone

 

[Keptick]

Wait we are showing off drones?? :D

Spoiler: Manticore Drone

Spoiler: Ismenian Drone

Spoiler: Siren Drone

 

[Reilly Reese]

Broken Image

 

[Keptick]

Broken Image

It works for me :|

Edit: you should be able to see it now.

 

[Reilly Reese]

Works now

 

[jzimmerman4]

Hahahah they originally were all black before I gave them all a paint job! So feel free to batatize them hah

 

[t3xx3r]

What was that ship in the upper right? That looks awesome!

 

[Thalanor]

keptick your drone rack idea is absolutely glorious! I have added a hangar for a 12-drone rack to my WIP destroyer. I can now with the press of a button launch 12 AI drones (6 to each side) from the interior of my ship, and easily swap the rack after :D

 

[Keptick]

keptick your drone rack idea is absolutely glorious! I have added a hangar for a 12-drone rack to my WIP destroyer. I can now with the press of a button launch 12 AI drones (6 to each side) from the interior of my ship, and easily swap the rack after :D

SO MUCH YES!!!!!!! I haven't actually integrated mine into the ship it's meant for, but from what I see it's going too be epic :D . Thanks a lot for that gif btw!!!

@t3xx3r That's a calderon ship (my faction).

 

[marcus87]

the funny thing is that it looks as if the drones just get trown right out of the airlock.

"Noooo!!! Dont fo it please!!!! ....arggdeggghhhh ...

 

[Gerion]

All the drones seem to scream: "DAAAADDDYYYY"

 

[marcus87]

yea Thalanor you evil bastard!!

 

[Thalanor]

They had to go, because they had to be replaced - by visually beefed up brothers!
Here's the current version of the rack:

Push pulse modules are the purest of headaches sometimes. The finished destroyer will include an at least 95% of the time fully functional drone rack in the special equipment hangar.

 

[Keptick]

They had to go, because they had to be replaced - by visually beefed up brothers!
Here's the current version of the rack:

Push pulse modules are the purest of headaches sometimes. The finished destroyer will include an at least 95% of the time fully functional drone rack in the special equipment hangar.

You use push pulses??? Are they more powerful then simply using beam-amc-push arrays?

 

[Gerion]

You not only throw them out, you replace them with their brothers and even tell them those were superior? Monster. I hope when all those drones form an AI collective you are their first victim

 

[Thalanor]

keptick, actually they seem to be horrendous - and not gaining effects from grouping. However, a checkerboard pattern of single push pulses gives quite a "blasty" result especially with light drones. I stuck with the first thing I could get to work, but my push pulse method could actually be inferior Try it for science, if it looks better than the drone carnage in my GIF, please do share :D

Gerion, thats the thing about one-time-use drone racks. Better pray they don't make it - that way they don't have to point their sad cameras at the jump flash of the mothership.

 

[SilentRider_14]

@Thalanor are you atleast using a damage pulse as a slave to boost the push force effect

 

[Keptick]

@Thalanor are you atleast using a damage pulse as a slave to boost the push force effect

We can do that??? :O

Edit: now that you mention it it makes sense.

 

[Reilly Reese]

Keptick your tech has gotten past your brains capability. Such was the way of the wheels creator :p

 

[Keptick]

Keptick your tech has gotten past your brains capability. Such was the way of the wheels creator :p

I still have some stuff up my sleeve >: D