assault drone won't start

[Max]

they seem to be stuck on HALTED

[Spite Sprite]

Do you mean your factories aren't producing drones? Does your colony have all of the resources necessary to begin producing them?

[Max]

yes
i am restarting cus the enemy ♥♥♥♥♥♥ me up will update if problem returns

[Ms. E Girl]

Mine eventually started to build the drones, after my baseses got shat on... also cant release the drones either

[Max]

yea same

[thelazyhermit]

yep, I got wiped out. it turns out they also target your workers. I suffered wave after wave before I realised I had only 1 worker trying to rebuild things. Back to starting all over

[TeknoTel]

Originally posted by thelazyhermit:

yep, I got wiped out. it turns out they also target your workers. I suffered wave after wave before I realised I had only 1 worker trying to rebuild things. Back to starting all over

Exactly what happened to me. I have no idea how to get past the event. Your base is completely ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by maintenance and power following the system shutdown and it feels like you have 3 or things that need to be immedaitely prio'd but your workers obviously can't keep up and then they just start being killed by the attacks and its gg.

[cptn_scarlet]

Ha I see that I am not alone then in this re-guards then, my defence drones just sat there going around their defence tower while the enemy shot up everything in site, including my defence drones and towers. By the time they did start to do anything it was too late there was nothing left to save. In truth going into battle mode and manually moving the drones made little diffrence, by the time they got to where I had sent them the enemy had move on to somewhere else. I when't from level three tec to no tec in seven waves of attacks, and I could not re-build quick enough to replace what I had lost.

Guess I will start again, I have seen a few things I could have done better. I did not see my own drones shooting up my own workers though, I will have to keep my out for that one. It may explain why I could not rebuild fast enough. I was to busy swearing at the screen and trying to defend myself to notice.

[---Plasma---]

enemey drones are unblanced and ♥♥♥♥ up the supply chain

[Spite Sprite]

Thank you so very much for providing your combat suggestions and feedback. I wanted to let you know that we agree with many of your assessments: the initial attack is too debilitating and the lack of notifications are a problem. A fix is underway to improve balancing the early combat encounters and implement notifications when your colony is under attack.

[TheGoodKall]

Also it wasn't clear that in battle view you can click the bubble indicating your drones and click on the bubble indicating the enemy drones to move them to attack. You also need to build drone hives to increase drone capacity, with each hive adding 100. You don't have to keep the drones at the hive once they spawn from your assault drone factories.

[TeknoTel]

Originally posted by Spite Sprite:

Thank you so very much for providing your combat suggestions and feedback. I wanted to let you know that we agree with many of your assessments: the initial attack is too debilitating and the lack of notifications are a problem. A fix is underway to improve balancing the early combat encounters and implement notifications when your colony is under attack.

Just wanted to say, I reloaded my save at the point where the systems shutdown occurs and actually I was pretty easily able to get everything back online and actually identified the real reasons why things weren't working out.

Third time round I easily got set up and defended the attacks without any problem at all, I actually think you have the timing perfect.

The only reason you might not be ready is because your logistics and production efficiencies are not good, so the system shutdown is the first real test of your base, if your supply productions isn't there and you dont have the workers its going to be tough.

I was able to prioritise and build all the additional infrastructure pretty easily to overcome the initial attack and be secure going forward. I didn't play too much further then this though so we'll see.

I think you likely have it about right and if players do a little investigating into what and why things are failing they will be able to get a much more satisfying solution gameplay wise.

[cptn_scarlet]

Tekno Tel

The only reason you might not be ready is because your logistics and production efficiencies are not good,

I don't know I had a good supply chain up and running, and plenty of surplus supply's banked up in stock yards ready to go. When the attacks started they hit the workers, stock yards and the repair drone towers with their first strike, the best part of my surplus supplies and repair drones towers were taken out with a few workers drones, not forgetting damage to sub systems like the power grid, mines and factory's . I prioratised repair drones and workers and made repairs where I could do so, but before the repairs and the rebuild were only half done in came the second wave. This put back even further then the first wave, now running out of supply's and workers.
From that point on it was down hill all the way, by the seventh attack there was nothing worth saving as fast as I was building they were knocking it down again.

What defence I had which was three level three defence towers with there drone factory's did little in the way to slow them down. I did struggle to make out the defence towers and click on them when in combat and this could have been a factor, as well as trying to direct them to the target.

It would be nice if the drones were automonus and went after their own targets instead of manually having to guide them in the right direction.

[Firedust]

I think you need drone hives first. Otherwise it doesnt let you build any.