In a battle with fighters, will they continue to battle on even if the carrier is destroyed (during that battle)? Or is one fighter bay always required in order to keep fighter operations going?
Of course at the end of battle, if the carrier is destroyed and no fighter bays remain, then no doubt the fighters are lost at that point.
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Fighters/Drones
Started by Prospective, Sep 01 2008 04:26 AM
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Posted 01 September 2008 - 05:24 AM
Prospective, on Sep 1 2008, 09:26 PM, said:
In a battle with fighters, will they continue to battle on even if the carrier is destroyed (during that battle)? Or is one fighter bay always required in order to keep fighter operations going?
Of course at the end of battle, if the carrier is destroyed and no fighter bays remain, then no doubt the fighters are lost at that point.
Of course at the end of battle, if the carrier is destroyed and no fighter bays remain, then no doubt the fighters are lost at that point.
The fighters keep fighting if your carriers are destroyed. They stop when your last warship is destroyed.
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Posted 02 September 2008 - 01:12 AM
The other main advantage of fighters and drones to rember is that during a warp point assault, they all show up at the start and don't need to wait for their carriers to go through the warp point.
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Posted 04 September 2008 - 08:45 PM
Fighters and Drones will continue until every ship, orbital and fortress on their side has been destroyed.
They appear in warp point assaults at the beginning of the battle and engage immediately.
They benefit defensively from pulse engine tech improvements , wherever they might be in the galaxy.
If the enemy has no way to shoot them down, their firepower does not degrade as ships are eliminated, in contrast to conventional weapons which lose firepower as ships are damaged or destroyed.
They are relatively cheap to build considering that half of their effective tonnage is pure Steel in the form of Fighter Bays or Drone Racks.
Fighter Bays and Drone Racks can be built ahead of time, perhaps before the fighter or drone tech that you are interested in has been completed. Carriers could even be built and placed into fleets before their fighters/drones are ready, allowing for the stretching-out of construction times for a war fleet.
Carriers can see an improvement in firepower simply by replacing their fighters and drones on the fly rather than requiring a complete scrap-and-rebuild cycle as with conventional warships.
They appear in warp point assaults at the beginning of the battle and engage immediately.
They benefit defensively from pulse engine tech improvements , wherever they might be in the galaxy.
If the enemy has no way to shoot them down, their firepower does not degrade as ships are eliminated, in contrast to conventional weapons which lose firepower as ships are damaged or destroyed.
They are relatively cheap to build considering that half of their effective tonnage is pure Steel in the form of Fighter Bays or Drone Racks.
Fighter Bays and Drone Racks can be built ahead of time, perhaps before the fighter or drone tech that you are interested in has been completed. Carriers could even be built and placed into fleets before their fighters/drones are ready, allowing for the stretching-out of construction times for a war fleet.
Carriers can see an improvement in firepower simply by replacing their fighters and drones on the fly rather than requiring a complete scrap-and-rebuild cycle as with conventional warships.
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Posted 05 September 2008 - 07:24 AM
Thanks for the reply Pete.
How was the Pacificon? Anything interesting happen? Meet any RTG players there?
How was the Pacificon? Anything interesting happen? Meet any RTG players there?
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