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Escort Drone Swarm
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10 Mar, 2020 @ 5:20am
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Escort Drone Swarm

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Description
For Stellaris 3.6.*

Escort Drone Swarm

This is a expendable swarm ship, the drones are smaller than a covette. Fully design as an escort to any of my standalone ship mods. Will also work with vanilla or any other ship mods.

Purpose
-This thing is designed to be an escort for my carriers But it will work with any ship.
-Swarm the enemy to allow any of your flagship/capital ship to stay in range.

Features
-Balance (In terms of fleet power, There's -20% weapon damage modifier. in exchange, more ship speed.)
-Really FAST (A Speed of about 500+)
-Really CHEAP (A Fully build Drone will cost about 180* alloys compared to a fully build corvette which usually cost 200+*)
-Really FAST Build speed. (This thing are small. Really really small thus building them should be quite easy. The only way you'll see then is if you focus on 1 ship and zoomed in.)
-Maxed Evasion (The drones have more than 130+ evasion but stellaris maxed is 90.)
-Special Long Range Jump Drive (This long range jump drives allow this drone to escort special ships with Long range jump drive too such as Space Battleship Yamato, Arcadia and Warlock.)

Requirements:
Tech: None
You can build this at the start of the game.

FAQ:
Q: Use as an escort? ship to stay in range?
A: YES. you see, stellaris is coded like this: Any Capital ship with no escort even if having the Artillery core will ALWAYS go POINT BLANK to the enemy it's attacking. Having and escort such as corvettes with fix this BUT corvettes takes time to build and cost too much.

Q: How can be this drone be much better escort for the special stand alone ships?
A: TheLong Range Jump Drive. You see, stellaris is coded to used the lowest range jump drive or common jumpdrive when combining it with an escort such as corvettes. So if you combine a Corvette and a Space Battleship Yamato, Yamato's special long range jump drive wont be use. On the other hand, this drone is already equiped with something similar to it, it's a bit downgraded but the range of it is still far.

Localization:
-Russian by NoT_Exist (Thanks!)

Credits:
Gearbox Dev Team for the Model
Ripper and converter - John2k4

Too OP? use this:
Large AI Fleet Size - Extreme Ed.

My Stand-Alone Ship mods:
Warlock Class Missile Destroyer
Space Batteship Yamato
Space Batteship Arcadia
Dedicated Carrier
Halo Infinity Ship
Escort Drone Swarm
Munificent Class Star Frigate
83 Comments
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Empyrrean 29 Sep @ 2:50pm 
I think I stumbled onto a solution while trying my hand at a band-aid fix.

Open the file "eds" in common/ship_sizes and take note of the following lines:
size_multiplier = 0.15
fleet_slot_size = 0.15

I changed both numbers to 1 just to be safe, and it no longer crashes when I split the fleets.

If I change just one of them to 1 and leave the other as 0.15, depending on which one I changed the game will either continue to count each drone unit as a fleet size of 1 or outright crash to desktop when I select the drones. So for now I recommend you change them both to 1.
Red-Eyed_Gelynome  [author] 15 May @ 5:21am 
Currently testing for errors. Will try to fix. Thanks.
Chisne 13 Sep, 2024 @ 2:07pm 
This mod is prone to crash when you split the fleets or join them while it has drones in it. Sometimes this even happends just because of them merging on a station while you build more. I really like this mod because its pretty realistic in a sci fi setting to have drones and UAV's so please try to fix this mod.
24k小屁孩 9 Apr, 2024 @ 7:47pm 
我真的非常喜欢这个mod，现在一添加入舰队就游戏崩溃（只有这个mod），麻烦更新一下吧！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
24k小屁孩 9 Apr, 2024 @ 7:47pm 
I really like this mod, now a add to join the fleet on the game crash (only this mod), please update it ！！！！！！！！！！！！！！
GabeC1997 10 Dec, 2023 @ 12:28pm 
You know, a ship class like that would be perfect for the Juggernaut, especially if it could auto reinforce...
ANIMUS 30 Nov, 2023 @ 10:41pm 
this is an amazing mod too
gpa1090 15 Aug, 2023 @ 4:20pm 
Upon loading a save game and with the game still paused, one can transfer all non drone ships from a fleet that contain drones to a new fleet and disband the drones only fleet thout the game crashing, that is one method to continue to play the game.
ANIMUS 11 Aug, 2023 @ 6:08am 
splitting the fleet caused game crash, love this mod, its amazing
Lamp 16 Jul, 2023 @ 8:22pm 
Welp, I can make the drones but adding more to a fleet makes the came crash. I love this mod, but until it gets updated I can't use it.