Anyone figured out how to place drone satellites?

[Tikigod]

So, I felt brave today and attempted to build a drone satellite and all seems fine... except that when you open up the battle manager and drag the DS over to one of the defence platform slots in the system it doesn't recognise it as a valid placement even though the platform slot will glow as compatible.


Don't suppose anyone has found a work around for this problem to use drone satellites until the feature is working 100% as intended?

 

[Cavalry Scout]

You simply go to battle manager and drag them from the bar at bottom to the circles on the system map similar to how you place space stations except they can be placed anywhere in system you control. However, at the moment, the Drone sats are broken and dont launch any drones.

 

[Tikigod]

You simply go to battle manager and drag them from the bar at bottom to the circles on the system map similar to how you place space stations except they can be placed anywhere in system you control. However, at the moment, the Drone sats are broken and dont launch any drones.

Doesn't work for me:

when you open up the battle manager and drag the DS over to one of the defence platform slots in the system it doesn't recognise it as a valid placement even though the platform slot will glow as compatible.

Guess I must have a bug. Tried it in 3 different systems now and each time when I drag it over the platform slot the cursor shows a 'x' next to the pointer to indicate the location is invalid, trying to place it does nothing.


Did also notice that in the design screen DS have module slots. And whilst it looks like nothing is being displayed as an option there are actually invisible options to add things like sensors, docks, warehouses and such.


Edit: As for them being broken and not launching drones, I gave it a shot in the weapons test and after clicking on the drone option to launch them I did notice a swarm of tiny blips leaving the platform.... however the platform is so large it actually goes beyond the perimeter of target pads and clips through them, making it very hard to notice the drones leaving.

 

[unmerged(412511)]

Does this mean that you no-longer get the CTD when trying to open the battle manager to place drone sats? If that's the case, at least we're moving in the right direction...

 

[Tikigod]

Does this mean that you no-longer get the CTD when trying to open the battle manager to place drone sats? If that's the case, at least we're moving in the right direction...

I've had one CTD so far when accessing a system with a DS, but mostly it seems to work to that extent at least.

 

[unmerged(405772)]

So this is going to be a stupid question and only tangentially related to the OP, but I haven't been able to find it by searching for it otherwise. How do I even build a satellite of any type to begin with?

 

[Tikigod]

For DS, you first need to research the "Drone satellite" technology found in the battle rider tree.

Then you design your satellite platform like you would a ship. (After researching DS, it will add a new section similar to drones and assault ships)

After that you add it to a systems production list like you would a ship.

Once it's built it will be listed as something deployable at the bottom of the Battle manger screen.

 

[Cavalry Scout]

Doesn't work for me:



Guess I must have a bug. Tried it in 3 different systems now and each time when I drag it over the platform slot the cursor shows a 'x' next to the pointer to indicate the location is invalid, trying to place it does nothing.

Thats what it appears but it does place them. It looks like its invalid but they are placed where the white circular shaped icon is.

 

[hasoos]

As soon as I got drone satellites researched my battle manager crashes my game to desktop every time. I can't even fathom how you guys got it to the point where you got to try and place them.

 

[Tikigod]

As soon as I got drone satellites researched my battle manager crashes my game to desktop every time. I can't even fathom how you guys got it to the point where you got to try and place them.

Does it crash when you just research the technology or when you have built a DS in the system?

 

[unmerged(405772)]

For DS, you first need to research the "Drone satellite" technology found in the battle rider tree.

Then you design your satellite platform like you would a ship. (After researching DS, it will add a new section similar to drones and assault ships)

After that you add it to a systems production list like you would a ship.

Once it's built it will be listed as something deployable at the bottom of the Battle manger screen.

Thanks very much for this description. I think I must have been missing technologies because I've never been able to design a "platform" class entity in the ship designer.

 

[unmerged(19579)]

Drone sattelites arent working. At least not the Drones.

 

[hasoos]

Does it crash when you just research the technology or when you have built a DS in the system?

I will test next time I have the game fired up. Probably not until tomorrow night though.