Drones - Battle Riders - Assault shuttles - differences?

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Someone can explain differences between them? As what i do know from sots1 i guess its this:

Drones: Against ships, small
Battle Riders: Against ships (and somewhat planets), bigger (like Destroyers)
Assault SHuttles: against planets ONLY

This way?

 

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Someone can explain differences between them? As what i do know from sots1 i guess its this:

Drones: Against ships, small
Battle Riders: Against ships (and somewhat planets), bigger (like Destroyers)
Assault SHuttles: against planets ONLY
This way?

Drones - Unmanned (though some races might have them manned) fighter craft. Anti-shipping, platform, creature, npc etc, etc. If you will a mobile weapons system.
Battle Riders: Sub-light ships (come in three varieties, Destroyer class (classic battle rider), cruiser class (Tarka and Liir) and Dreadnought class (Liir). Can't move on their own to other systems, increased weaponry since they don't need/use an interstellar drive.
Assault Shuttles: Planetary invasion and ship boarding (basically troop carriers).

So yeah you weren't wrong or far off, hope that clerifies more though.

 

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a) How are Battle riders used/ transportet/ assigned to ships?
b) How goes the same with Drone Platforms?
c) ...and with System Defense Ships (do they need a fleet or are they stationed in the system directly after beeing built)?

 

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a) How are Battle riders used/ transportet/ assigned to ships?
Build them (after designing them in design screen). Build a ship with a Battlerider carrier section (middle section). When you have both a carrier and BR built, go to battle rider management screen, select ship, and then drag the BR to the "hanger" for that ship etc. Use ship (carrier) like anyother, when you want to launch, click L on the appropiate icon at weapons icon area.
b) How goes the same with Drone Platforms?
Just design the Drone, built a drone ship (carrier) assign drone to ship in design screen. They launch like BR's (listed in weapons icon in battle screen, click L (and R to recover). I've found that if I launch my drones, and let them auto return/recover I can't use them again, however if I give them a chance to make one strafing run, I can recover and then relaunch.
c) ...and with System Defense Ships (do they need a fleet or are they stationed in the system directly after beeing built)?

Do you mean System Defense Boats? I don't know yet, haven't used them yet as they aren't fully functional I believe. I think Mec said this is coming in this weeks patch on Wednesday, but don't hold me to that as things can and do change depending on what they can manage in a week.

 

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b) i was talking about drone PLATFORMS in system...

 

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Ah, sorry yes I see that now, late for me (nearly bedtime), reading comprehension low. lol

Drone defense platforms aren't currently working right. You can build them and can assign them to various places through out system map, however some say it crashes their game if they do. I've not used them yet as I believe next patch up date (wednesday) also addresses this.

 

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thx

 

[khanonius]

Ah, sorry yes I see that now, late for me (nearly bedtime), reading comprehension low. lol

Drone defense platforms aren't currently working right. You can build them and can assign them to various places through out system map, however some say it crashes their game if they do. I've not used them yet as I believe next patch up date (wednesday) also addresses this.

Drone defense platforms are working partially. After last patch you can build and place them. However they appear in battle without any drones, so they are only immobile object with some guns:/

 

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I can build but not place them...

 

[khanonius]

I can build but not place them...

Strange, there was a CDT when entering battle manager with drone platforms but it was resolved, for me at least...