Drone Ideas?

[yanom]

I would personally be fond of the squad option. It would also allow for specific "start" units, which could yield AA units to immediately discourage Flagship rushers.

Another thing is that we now know how to kill units after X seconds. Just throwing it out there, but maybe have an adequate anti-air unit spawn from the get-go, and have it die after, say, 5 minutes?

Would have to remember that the solution should not be able to dominate the Flagship in a counter-situation of Drone rushing. A balance of power would of course be optimal.

yes, the imperative is to stop cruiser rushing

[yanom]

Well, I found a way to stop cruiser rushing, with drone air rushing:

1) build air fac with first engineer. This fac starts building fighter drones and gunship drones

2) engineer clones itself

3) both drones go mine. when you need more engineers, clone existing ones.

4) attack with the air drones you made

[oksnoop2]

Yeah the single air drones have a pretty strong attack against cruisers and they are pretty cheap. A few of them ought to at least keep the flagship away.

[yanom]

oh - the drones need ground-based anti-air. Maybe the warrior should attack air? A laser seems like a good AA weapon, but it should damage air less than ground, otherwise id b overpowered.

[yanom]

wait, no, how about a flak turret?

[oksnoop2]

I am all out of ideas for new drone units. If anyone has any suggestions they are going to have to concept the unit.

EDIT

Like a drawing or something.

[yanom]

Please excuse my poor attempt at perspective drawing, but:


The turret swivels on the base there and fires a contious stream of small flak bombs.

[oksnoop2]

Gotta work in the drone head thing somewhere.

[knorke]

imo looks too much like a generic turret thing, it is just a base with a barrel.
do drones even need ground based AA, seeing how they have fighters etc?

[oksnoop2]

Almost every time I play someone baws to me about there not being ground AA. The more units I add though the less stream line and appealing the faction gets. (to me anyway, I'm not sure how other people feel) Maybe I will just show-horn that functionality into another unit. No one seems to build the spreadshot drones anyway.

[yanom]

Maybe I will just show-horn that functionality into another unit.

yes, please do that.

Fighters are useless aa if enemy has air superiority, cause they get shot down instantly.