Defense drone 1 renders you practically immune to missiles and boarding drones, which is quite useful. Of course burst missile fire can overwhelm it, as can it being distracted by asteroids. The other drones are less generically helpful -- everyone likes missile immunity, but relatively few builds appreciate beam drones or system repair drones, and anti-ship drones are usually not quite as good as weapons, bar-for-bar.Char;y wrote:Not sure, although I would quite like to understand the mechanics of this myself, as drones seem to randomly stop working for no reason. Not a big fan of drones. I am guessing they are better for a stealth strategyRuger10 wrote: I'm still partial to the idea that defensive drones should be able to attack offensive beam/laser drones as well as missiles/asteroids though, anyone have thoughts on this?
As for having defense drones attack enemy offense drones, the problem there is that it would give you effective immunity to enemy drone attacks, outside of the flagship battle. Even if the enemy drone takes 3-4 shots to take down it still won't be able to do much before it gets destroyed. If you really want to disable enemy drone attacks, take out their drone control system.