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Saragio2018 has Star Valor

Sep 1, 2022 @ 5:51am

Hangar for Drones and Ships question

1. Is it possible to have carriers in your fleet which launch shuttles etc? I tried with a Frigate but could not insert the shuttles in the Frigate or give my wingman order to launch them when I put them in his cargo space.
2. What is the point of drone hangars? Can you not have any number of drones you want through the equipment space?

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Jaasrg

Sep 1, 2022 @ 5:58am

No.
Drone hangars act as free equipment slots for drones.

Zarinthal

Sep 1, 2022 @ 8:32am

Only flashship can use hangar bay for now

endersblade has Star Valor

Sep 1, 2022 @ 5:55pm

Yeah, I was severely disappointed with this game's version of a carrier build, and even moreso that you can't have them in your fleet. The entire concept needs a complete rework. Attack drones, even Mk III, are completely worthless above level 30, and again, the fact you can't equip them on your fleet makes them largely useless. Early game they aren't terrible if you can find a ship capable of carrying them.

EvolutionKills has Star Valor

Sep 1, 2022 @ 7:44pm

Originally posted by endersblade:
Yeah, I was severely disappointed with this game's version of a carrier build, and even moreso that you can't have them in your fleet. The entire concept needs a complete rework. Attack drones, even Mk III, are completely worthless above level 30, and again, the fact you can't equip them on your fleet makes them largely useless. Early game they aren't terrible if you can find a ship capable of carrying them.

That sorta tracks. Above Lv30 you're equipping Mk.IV and Mk.V equipment if you can get it.

Just looking at the Attack Drones, the description says they are armed with a Small/Light/Medium Laser respectively. Those weapons (at common) deal 3, 4, and 10 damage. Compare that to the 6, 8.4, and 21 of the Attack Drones, and they clearly share a similar scale.

So looking at other stock laser weapons as a basis, the Heavy Laser deals 18 damage. So a hypothetical Attack Drone Mk.IV should be around 36~40 damage stock.

Things get weird after that, as there isn't a direct 'vanilla' upgrade above Heavy, everything else either having a modifier (e.g. Charging, Rapid), being a different type (e.g. Beam), or even different class (e.g. Plasma, Capital).

But using a Plasma Cannon for the base of 34 damage, you'd get a hypothetical Mk.V drone dealing 64~70 damage stock.

Also, I'm not sure if Drone damage scales with any Energy Control. As in, if you bump up your energy going to weapons, ship mounted Medium Laser deal more damage; but do those same laser mounted in Attack Drones get any benefit? If their damage is falling off so bad, I kinda suspect they don't.

Also, the Mining Drones use simple mining lasers and the Heavy Mining Drones use heavy mining lasers, and both track 1 for 1 damage wise with the stock ship weapon versions (10dps and 30dps respectively). We should get a PMC Heavy Mining Drone equipped with the Proxima exclusive Miners Laser, for a 50dps capable drone.

Insanity Pilgrim has Star Valor

Sep 2, 2022 @ 10:08am

I feel the biggest issue is that you have to target each and every time. I could understand the appeal if they just swarm around you and decided to attack automatically but as is, they just feel cumbersome.

NNNMAN ⁧⁧🔊*🎮🏆⏫ Jan 10, 2024 @ 8:54pm

Drones are Just Better when you can send them to the ENEMY while your Hangar ships need to be outfitted and Nearly Guarded 24/7 because the Emergency Teleport isn't always happening. So The Hangar is nice but the Ships on higher Levels are more a Small support Ship (You customized like for an hour) What helps like 15% out and for the most part is just there to make you lose focus on your Flag ship ..

All in All if you just Build Some Low tech ship and Low Level Crew you have a free helping hand but it will not come close to the 15% help unless again you only use the Best Weapons or Equipment for Battle.. Or make them Healers but there they also lose out over time .. I think the best thing is to have a Mining Fleet when you just use the Hangar.