How To Load Novadrones on to A Balor

[ZaphodBeeblebrox]

As the title says, how do you re-equip a Balor with Novadrones.

I tried to do this at the Shipyard in Devries, but there was no optiion
under equip Ammo for Novadrones!

ZB

[Ognjen85]

I haven't tried to do this yet, but I tried equipping arwan in the same way (not with nova drones of course). Option to equip ammo was there and ship was apparently loaded with missiles (it docked and un-docked after a while) but it had "0" missiles after that (my credit account was charged nevertheless). I tried this several times and also with Teranis and i had same thing over and over gain. Seems that equip option is still bugged as hell.

From what I have noticed, NPC and also player owned cap ships ships down't need ammo for missile turrets yet (they are shooting them without any ammo), so try it in combat and see if your ship will also fire missiles without having them in cargo...

hope it helps.

[Jaxartes]

I own a balor and it fires without needing missiles.

[burger1]

I bought a balor in 2.50 beta and it doesn't seem to need missiles. The other cap ships probably do.

[Artean]

I bought a balor in 2.50 beta and it doesn't seem to need missiles. The other cap ships probably do.

I hope they will eventually have to buy/refil missiles. The realism aside, it would provide yet another sink to the economy.

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

There's an option to "Equip ammo" at shipdealers.
I haven't tried it however.

[wwdragon]

Only fighters need missile ammo so far.
You don't have to equip them!

[Jaxartes]

I hope they will add some smart Ai stuff so you can for example make a rahanass as resupply ship for a fleet. And it will buy fuel cells and ammo for combat ships in that fleet and come and transfer them with drones.

[Alien2468]

I hope they will add some smart Ai stuff so you can for example make a rahanass as resupply ship for a fleet. And it will buy fuel cells and ammo for combat ships in that fleet and come and transfer them with drones.

For that you need to be able to manage a combat fleet effectively first which is something ego has not managed to achieve yet. I remember you could assign numerous ships to a specific colour code, kinda like grouping units in an RTS game, and give a single order to the group which was in turn carried out by all ships. You could also assign resupply ships...

[scottykad]

the balors have the ultra realistic unlimited ammo already to fire forever once you have made/bought one, and yes hopefully they will make us refil ammo at some point for cap ships and also the v launcher missiles and astrobee missiles aswell, but again this will mean micro managing more stuff but we do need more realism in the game

[Earth Ultimatum IV.]

I'd only vote for ammo consumption if it was hilariously cheap (100k credits for 1000 missiles) and ships could carry giant amounts of the ammo.

[Saquavin]

I'd only vote for ammo consumption if it was hilariously cheap (100k credits for 1000 missiles) and ships could carry giant amounts of the ammo.

Same. Having to reload after each fight will be a pain, and high cost will prevent us from using it.

[wwdragon]

I'd only vote for ammo consumption if it was hilariously cheap (100k credits for 1000 missiles) and ships could carry giant amounts of the ammo.

Same. Having to reload after each fight will be a pain, and high cost will prevent us from using it.

Drones and missiles are all rather pricey, when compared with their effectivness.

[Fallent]

I'd vote against ammo consumption. Half of the Balors offensive weapons are it's missiles. It's more costly and a pain than it's worth having to run around finding, buying, and loading them constantly after every fight.

[Revenant342]

Definitely add an option or make it default that Balors won't fire missiles as fighters and drones, too...

[Ognjen85]

Balor should have more energy based weapons. Currently it almost relies only on missile turret that can fire only one type of missile. Nova drone is nice against capital ships but (as far as i have seen) is not very effective aginst small "slippery" fighters. If it had ability to fire astrobe missiles then it would be probably too deadly and even more expensive to own, so my vote goes for nova drone ammo but more laser turrets, and of course some sort of auto equip which should not be restricted to shipyard dealers only...

[Jaxartes]

Balor should have more energy based weapons. Currently it almost relies only on missile turret that can fire only one type of missile. Nova drone is nice against capital ships but (as far as i have seen) is not very effective aginst small "slippery" fighters. If it had ability to fire astrobe missiles then it would be probably too deadly and even more expensive to own, so my vote goes for nova drone ammo but more laser turrets, and of course some sort of auto equip which should not be restricted to shipyard dealers only...

Balor is pretty much one of the best if not the best L size combat ship, I don't think it needs buffs.

[Fallent]

Balor should have more energy based weapons. Currently it almost relies only on missile turret that can fire only one type of missile. Nova drone is nice against capital ships but (as far as i have seen) is not very effective aginst small "slippery" fighters. If it had ability to fire astrobe missiles then it would be probably too deadly and even more expensive to own, so my vote goes for nova drone ammo but more laser turrets, and of course some sort of auto equip which should not be restricted to shipyard dealers only...

Balor is pretty much one of the best if not the best L size combat ship, I don't think it needs buffs.

+1 fine as is

[terrannz]

A Balor is just quick cash. I've found a number of them in the cap ship needs to go and cartel boss vulnerable missions.

Easy to capture and a quick 5 mil sale

[wtfdidibuy]

None of my cap ships have needed missiles purchased for them they have just been bringing the pain