Defense drone suggestion

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det2048
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Defense drone suggestion

Post by det2048 »

I love the improvements to cargo drones, they are now useful for collecting containers. However defense drones remain unwanted since they use the s dock and take a very long time to deploy. They deploy at the same rate they are destroyed so you rarely have 2 in space at a time. I know having defense drones come out as fast as cargo drones it will overpower them and make other ships like the H drone launching obsolete. So I do not suggest that.

What I suggest is defense drones launch 4 at a time on s docks. You can see the drones can fit neatly 4 at a time on the docks. This would also make the Cerberus drones more useful, currently it is not a popular ship due to defense drones being mostly useless.
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Re: Defense drone suggestion

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det2048 wrote: Sat, 15. Mar 25, 19:31 I love the improvements to cargo drones, they are now useful for collecting containers. However defense drones remain unwanted since they use the s dock and take a very long time to deploy. They deploy at the same rate they are destroyed so you rarely have 2 in space at a time. I know having defense drones come out as fast as cargo drones it will overpower them and make other ships like the F drone launching obsolete. So I do not suggest that.

What I suggest is defense drones launch 4 at a time on s docks. You can see the drones can fit neatly 4 at a time on the docks. This would also make the Cerberus drones more useful, currently it is not a popular ship due to defense drones being mostly useless.
There is Xenon H, which is intended to be a drone carrier. It fires dozens of them in seconds, due to having launch tubes (or whatever they're called) on the side. Try it out.

For frigates, generally, you just can't launch drones quickly. So if you want to use something like osprey with Garage mod (gives it 21 drone capacity), the idea would be to deploy them in advance using "escort".
det2048
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Re: Defense drone suggestion

Post by det2048 »

vvvvvvvv wrote: Sun, 16. Mar 25, 23:14
det2048 wrote: Sat, 15. Mar 25, 19:31 I love the improvements to cargo drones, they are now useful for collecting containers. However defense drones remain unwanted since they use the s dock and take a very long time to deploy. They deploy at the same rate they are destroyed so you rarely have 2 in space at a time. I know having defense drones come out as fast as cargo drones it will overpower them and make other ships like the F drone launching obsolete. So I do not suggest that.

What I suggest is defense drones launch 4 at a time on s docks. You can see the drones can fit neatly 4 at a time on the docks. This would also make the Cerberus drones more useful, currently it is not a popular ship due to defense drones being mostly useless.
There is Xenon H, which is intended to be a drone carrier. It fires dozens of them in seconds, due to having launch tubes (or whatever they're called) on the side. Try it out.

For frigates, generally, you just can't launch drones quickly. So if you want to use something like osprey with Garage mod (gives it 21 drone capacity), the idea would be to deploy them in advance using "escort".
I meant H not F.

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