Stupid Question about Carriers/Fighters

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Sooooooo   given how massively OP carriers were and the fact that the AI wasn't building/using them I pretty much just decided to ignore them for the past few weeks.

Last night I decided to go about actually playing with them again.

 

In the Ship Designer thread people are posting some insane fighter ships.    yet I am not seeing how I can change the drones or even tell the game that hey I use Missles... equip yourself with photon missiles not puny lazers.....

Is there a way to design the drones?
Is there a way to have them use something other than Lazers?

 

Thanks!

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Currently no and there may not be such a thing. Currently you only have an option of different types of carrier modules.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Hrm...

 

I hope they set the fighters to use the best available tech... not simply the best available Laser/shield combo.     This seems like a rather odd thing to have it only  building off of the one....

Back in Patch 4 when Lazers were god mode it made sense... now, not so much.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well, everybody wanted them nerfed so they nerfed them good. The initial carriers only have a choice of escort drones or attack drones. They are much weaker than the previous carriers. If you fully research carriers you can move up to real, piloted, top of the line fighters, but you can't specify the weapons. I think they all come with your best beam weapon.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Actually, I just noticed my 'Guardian" drones aren't firing, because I haven't researched kinetics at all.

Last fight was carrier versus carrier, and the two waves of interceptors passed each other, my interceptors blew up their carrier, and doubled back to finish off the interceptors, who at that point were dancing circles around my blocking guardians.

Anyone else noticed behaviour?

*edit*

while the combat fleet is "active", you can select your drones and look at their stats... my interceptors are m8, but my guardians are still m0.  my interceptors beam strength is 60, and the guardians' attack strengths are all uniformly 0.

*/edit*

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Can't wait till they let us customize the fighters. Hope they give us a lot of options on how we want to set up our fighter wings.