As I said before, any suggestions for new perm drones and if they're good like the Warpastic+ drone, I'll put it in

I feel good additions to the game is better, + it will help future emperor runs greatly as only perm drones can be used in Anatonlia.

In some RTS games, there are defensive structures that deploy small fighter craft as their primary weapon (there are some small 'flak' like turrets for minor weapon). We have a drone (temp and mobile) that deploys fighters.

What about a perma drone that has a super item that generates a bunch of small fighters to intercept and disrupt enemy players?

TERMITE DRONE! Launch termites at termites!

Drones that launch fighters might cause a ton of lag. What might be amusing is drones with negative knock back beams and knock back immunity; could be used to *drag* in the unwary player.

Other ideas:

Stellar Generator: Produce incredibly tough envelopes that act as mini planets to block weapons fire. If the tractoring change goes in this could lead to invincible unattached kits, so the envelopes would need to have a mechanism preventing blobbing them together and making attacks impossible. Could: Limit number in galaxy, give some kind of orbit or free movement radius, allow limited tractoring of envelopes/generators, script the envelopes so they can't be within X radius of one another or simply make the envelope act as a randomly generated planet which then proceeds to orbit the nearest star.
Perhaps more trouble than it's worth, but the main purpose is to make drone interaction with BvB more meaningful without making PvB impossible (without just throwing bigger numbers at the issue).

AI shipyards: Provides an extra spawn point for the local AI; could be a way of adding AI "trade fleets" that interact with the new AI base commods.
Potential issue: would need to account for aug farming and EXP grinding depending on how many AI it could spawn; I believe we have an anti-camping code which could be applied to this?

Gravitational Disruptors: Prevents tractoring of objects within X distance at the expense of negative effects
Issues: Fairly obvious, I'm not sure this would really be a good idea but it's out there nonetheless...

That's all I can scrape off the top of my head. Might add more later.

I'd have ideas for temporary drones.

You mentioned beefing armada ambrosia drones. What's the status on that?

We've given the Armada Ambrosia Drone around 30% more HPS over the Annihilator Defender with a base range of about 1000.

You guys said something about making some perma drones like the xyz gear, I had an idea; you could make them debatable on warp. That way the drones must be built in the galaxy you want to lay then much in the same way you must with bases.

Um, what does this mean? And do you mean that you can only build them on bases in the galaxy you want them? Or that you lay them and feed them commods somehow. I'm kind of confused.

- Chrono

I think he means they won't be able to leave the galaxy they were built in.

I can confirm that the Platform and Defender series of drones are sticky to the galaxy they have been built in (it won't let you warp with the drones in your hull). The idea is to make them decay from inventories on universe resets to keep people from prebuilding them. These two lines of drones are meant to be used only in a defensive way, not offensive. Therefore they're slightly better than their regular permanent drone counterparts as well as not being augable.

There are some holes that need to be looked at, though. First things that come to mind are item teleporters and TSL transfers to different AI bases (although this last one would be very costly).

We're getting a new dev like every other week

Auxilium is the other half of the permanent drones development.




These ideas sounds good, will attempt to make something around this idea.