? About Combat Drones

[Hypno]

This is my Dumb Rat question of the week.

Say there are CD's dropped in a sector. The owner, or an alliance member fires on a trader in that sector. Do the CD's fire WITH the owner or aliance member or only return fire when the defender returns fire upon the attackers?

[Shady_FA-]

If they are IS and not on the ship the CDs dont fire back.

[Hypno]

Thank You! Shady_FA-

[Ardbeg]

If they are IS and not on the ship the CDs dont fire back.

........unless they are fired on directly, but they do not take part in ship-to-ship combat.

[Hypno]

Thank You Ard!

I was thinking that they actully returned fire if you fired on the owner or an alliance member of the owner. I did not know that they did not fire at all unless targeted.

[Holy]

This is my Dumb Rat question of the week.

Say there are CD's dropped in a sector. The owner, or an alliance member fires on a trader in that sector. Do the CD's fire WITH the owner or aliance member or only return fire when the defender returns fire upon the attackers?

I think at least in my experiences, I have never seen them fire back, else you'd have alliances trying to put like 2000 combat drones in a sector. But, if someone is clearing forces and attacks the stack of combat drones, they do return fire... Now I was wondering if the return fire is relative to the experience of the player who's forces it is.

[Holy]

BUT, I think that if there are mines in the sector and you go in and click "Continue Attack", then you in effect end up attacking the remaining combat drones. I learned this the hard way a few times.