Thalanor
CEO Snataris Colonial Fleetyards
Loadout I was referring to drone field usage experiments (e.g., rack mechanisms, undock and push/pull and the like), which may be significantly easier to accomplish with rails*. Of course drone design can always be researched at any moment I have my 7-cube drone ready to go, just waiting for the patch to see if I can make use of the rails when designing the deployment measures.
*Imagine drones docked to rails, that are accelerated by the rail and then safely undocked, preserving it's momentum to cause it to smoothly eject. That would be the dream..
Docking will also get a revamp sometime. As such, there may be a time when the whole enhancer thing and docking boxes are gone, and non-cube shaped drones can suddenly be stored with just as much efficiency and released into battle better than the state-of-the-art push beam and catapult techniques can accomplish this. Because a drone carrier would be a larger project (350m+ to start to be effective) it would be a waste to built the deployment mechanisms now when you will possibly have to redo everything later.
*Imagine drones docked to rails, that are accelerated by the rail and then safely undocked, preserving it's momentum to cause it to smoothly eject. That would be the dream..
Docking will also get a revamp sometime. As such, there may be a time when the whole enhancer thing and docking boxes are gone, and non-cube shaped drones can suddenly be stored with just as much efficiency and released into battle better than the state-of-the-art push beam and catapult techniques can accomplish this. Because a drone carrier would be a larger project (350m+ to start to be effective) it would be a waste to built the deployment mechanisms now when you will possibly have to redo everything later.