CoADE Officially Unofficial Tournament Thread.

If they face one opponent, yes, but if they face a large number of opponents, the AI will set each laser on a different opponent. With very small missiles, the wobble results in a high survival time (as can be seen on my fight vs lennson; missiles were destroyed at ~250 km range). Miniature kinetic drones however have quite fragile weapons, so I don't know how much this applies, but I haven't actually tested.


Versus missiles and kinetics at least, laser drones are indeed better than multilaser capitals (smaller individual cross-sections; higher redundancy). Unfortunately the game AI handles laser drones horribly (deleting a winning drone fleet for no apparent reason...), and the 25 drone cap with stock AI makes them beaten by multilaser capitals.

I have missiles and apophys only flak railguns, which I should be able to dodge easily. Have you mixed us up?

The danger of unused ordnance. 

Regardless of what keeps happening, the game keeps crashing at a semi-decisive result. The second time Argopeilacos managed to get his drones into range, but apophys  's ships pretty much immediately (probably, the game tanked to about 4 FPS) burnt out the lasing optics of the drones, and then managed to burn through to the KKV launchers, making them explode. Game crashed once apophys  's ship decided it didn't like that one KKV, and fired a few thousand flak shells at it (hung would be more accurate).

Third run, Argopeilacos sent out 60 KKV missiles, which eventually all got popped by the lasers once they passed the 400 km mark. Two of them collided (probably) and crashed the game.

Fourth attempt, somehow every payload got ignored and apophys managed to get his ships to intercept Argopeilacos 's ship. The KKV missiles launched didn't actually turn to engage, and apophys 's ship targeted the rear radiators, cutting a hole through the ship through the crew compartment. Then the game crashed once again.

Of course, crashing the game corrupts the replays...

AdmiralObvious - If my railguns are causing lag issues to the point that you can't see a decisive result, you can remove them and see whether the entry would win without.
Alternately you can try to give me an AI that doesn't ignore range, like Defensive (if you don't manually start combat in an engagement, and just let it start naturally).

I'm 90% sure you win, mostly due to the fact that you've got two ships, and all other entries only have one. I've run the game about 10 times to be sure, and i'm also pretty sure that the flak coils aren't the problem. I think it's just the game struggling to calculate so much damage at once, it breaks.

I imagine in the new patch the "split targeting" for the missiles might change the result, but for now I attribute the win to you. Pretty much the only other close result somewhat close to you losing is that one ship lost one of its reactors once.

They never really faced gundrone spam IIRC. OTP and Lennson both damaged one ship with railguns when it engaged them, and I don't think gundrones engaged it at all in any match (only Lennson had any and as it worked out only his missiles ever got an intercept). I'd guess lennson's drones would do the trick and mine might have.