well i just finished making prototypesI want to see this in action, get two people recording at the same time, one at the launch area and one at the area the drones are heading to.
Precisely the idea, surprise is important.
200*80 mass drones = 16k mass of weaponry and heavy shielding. 200 is plenty of drones, if you feel otherwise mass load in 200 soul drones as pirates and watch the fireworks.
i'm sure you'll feel otherwise once you've done that.
That's exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned a transport vessel, it is easily the most effective method of lining them up, however the distance thing is still an issue. I had considered using a wireless connector but you're basically making a scrub carrier with this method. So you would only get one wave, which may as well be better off equipped to a full carrier. Multiple waves would require additional connections to be made, which currently have to be in astronaut mode which is slow and dangerous in enemy territory....
The screening ships I've been thinking about are actually intended for player use, I'm trying to dial things back a bit in terms of not just building giant rectangles of doom, something to escort the battleship and have a bit better mobility at the expense of having less raw firepower and shielding. Also for use on smaller servers, since my battleships (only a few hundred meters in length!) tend to overwhelm the server and kill it after they've been shooting for a bit. But mostly for RP reasons and wanting to have a rounded out series of naval designs that I can share around.
Droneception ! And why is it I think drones launching drones launching drones is a viable tactic now. Or maybe drones that deploy chaff.
...Yeah... actually, there's your Jump Drive Drone. Logic-wire the thing up, and then set it up so that the big carrier drone splits apart into smaller drones--the carrier drone being huge would (once, I don't think anyone would fall for it two or three times) draw fire, make them dirt cheap so they're expendable pawns that still deal damage!
I do happen to have something like that actually.. I don't use it because people (generally) frown on melted circuit boards.
Which begs the question why didn't you just make a bigger rack to begin with? Having a weaponized rack isn't a terribly big deal but having that release extra weaponized racks which release regular drones... It's so convoluted it almost makes me wanna recreate a certain movie scene with my drones.
This whole conversation sadly is sidelining me from building Asgard (The Einherjar Industries base station--starting to see a bit of a naming theme?) into trying to figure out how to convert my Resolute class battleship into a drone that releases corvette sized drones that release sledge drones... so that I can just stand on the bridge and watch it all while cackling with glee. Or... you know. Something not that absurd. The Sledge seems to work really well in decent numbers so after I put together the Midgard's first few floors (and lift tubes), I'm going to start working on a light combat carrier that I can make a few of and shove into specialized berths at Asgard. Sure, I can only fly one... but screenshots look more impressive if it looks like there's a bustling spaceport in the background.I do happen to have something like that actually.. I don't use it because people (generally) frown on melted circuit boards.
erhrm.. anyways its been a little crazy here so where to start on the whole drone-ception thing. It's actually not technically a new idea, it started I would say about 5 or 6 months ago? give or take a little bit (probably longer). At that point I had released the M3 Launch Pad, which was a separate drone that released two of my Wisp drones. Can't believe that was 5 months ago.... man time flies, a while before that however I had the idea for a skoom drone that releases mini armed chaff drones, called that one the Skoom-pedo which was a portmanteau of Skoom-Drone and Torpedo of course that could never be officially released due to certain.. officials. Who opposed the name and shall thusly remain nameless. In any event the idea works out for those that are willing to try it.
However it really is just turning a drone into a rack full of smaller drones.
That's the spirit! Get rid of those fleshy airbreathing weaklings and replace them with cold hard margarita serving automata. On the plus side with fewer fleshies about you'll find it much easier to finish your crossword puzzle aboard the Asgard.
The audio quality is actually not that bad, honestly. You do a good job of not pausing too much or getting sidetracked off of the main point, and while the raw might have more of the pet noises it wasn't really noticeable on my end (admittedly, I don't have my 5.1 surround system plugged in, but I do still have a fairly decent speaker setup). It does a good job of letting the new viewer get an idea of what the base drone concept actually is (I would suggest adding block counts and dimensions to the next one to give an idea of the most efficient builds) and explains why gunships aren't cost effective.
Speaking from experience (though I'm not exactly some successful youtuber or anything, I took a lot of my videos down off of the 2vN page because they were, frankly, garbage), it's a little easier to break things up, so I'd say keep 2 and 3 separate to keep focus. The first being your general breakdown, the second being an in-depth exploration (given your responses in this thread and how the introduction video flowed, I would expect that 2 and 3 each would be at least 12-15 minutes long once you got rolling) of weapon sizes, types, and configurations, and how they function with each class of drone (this one's important to the idjits like me that tend to go power over efficiency with prototypes).
It'd be more efficient to just have a small jump inhibitor on your main ship instead of using drones for it. The only use I really see with inhibitor drones is leaving them all over enemy space and the most likely routes between your space and enemy space to mess up their emergency drives.
