Drones not launching

[PvK]

Hmm, I remember in past Versions, it seemed drones would always launch in any combat. Recently, my drones didn't launch at all in a combat. I wonder what I did or didn't do - anyone figure this out yet?

PvK

[normalphil]

I second the question, and note that this seems to be particular to Anti-ship drones that are all warheads for offensive armament. They just sit in thier holds while the ship/planet they are in gets slowly destroyed.

'Regular' combat drones launch fine... even ones that are all point defense and just head down to the corner of the map and sit out combat. Modifying the warhead-drones by giving them a meson blaster didn't fix it.

[Slick]

If you are talking about a simultaneous game and an anti-planet drone:

Version 1.81:
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3. Fixed - AI will no longer launch "Anti-Planet" Drones in combat.
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This was changed in the last patch due to the AI launching all drones in combat even if there was no planet involved. Then you couldn't recover the anti-planet drones.

I suspect a way to make this work is to make an anti-ship (type) drone but give it an anti-planet warhead and anti-planet strategy. Haven't tested this.

[PvK]

That answers the situation I saw, but not what normalphil said... unless he was wrong and they were anti-planet drones.

But it still wouldn't answer what normalphil said about PD drones... unless there were not PD targets, or the drones' strategy was set to not target the PD targets that there were.

PvK