AI War:Scout Drone
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Unarmed, cloaked ship with Intel gathering ability. |
The Mark IV version is immune to Tachyon Beams.
Base Stats
| Ship Cap | Ammo Type | Armor Type | Immunities | Damage Bonuses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Mark | None | Scout | Sniper Shots, Area Damage, Beam Weapons, Black Hole Machines, Speed Boosts, Gravity Effects, Attrition, Tractor Beams, Reclamation, Swallow, Force Fields, Mines | None |
| Mark | Ship Cap | Damage | Attack Range | Reload | Health | Armor | Speed | Engine Health | Single Ship DPS | Ship Cap DPS | Abilities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 10 | None | None | None | 30 | 0 | 202 | Inf | None | None | Cloaking, Cloaking Booster x1 (4000 Range), Radar Dampening Range 6,000, Gathers Scout Intel
Unaffected By Negative Energy |
| II | 20 | None | None | None | 60 | 0 | 290 | Inf | None | None | Cloaking, Cloaking Booster x2 (6000 Range), Radar Dampening Range 5,000, Gathers Scout Intel
Unaffected By Negative Energy |
| III | 30 | None | None | None | 90 | 0 | 530 | Inf | None | None | Cloaking, Cloaking Booster x3 (7000 Range), Radar Dampening Range 4,000, Gathers Scout Intel
Unaffected By Negative Energy |
| IV | 1 | None | None | None | 120 | 0 | 58 | Inf | None | None | Cloaking, Cloaking Booster x1 (4000 Range), Tachyon Beam Emission (700 Range), Gathers Scout Intel
Unaffected By Negative Energy |
| Mark | Knowledge | Metal Cost | Energy Cost | Build Time | Cap Metal Cost | Cap Energy Cost | Cap Build Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | -- | 500 | 25 | 00:00:05 | 5,000 | 250 | 00:00:50 |
| II | 500 | 1,000 | 250 | 00:00:09 | 20,000 | 5,000 | 00:03:00 |
| III | 2,250 | 2,000 | 500 | 00:00:17 | 60,000 | 15,000 | 00:08:30 |
| IV | Adv Fac | 3,000 | 5,000 | 00:00:25 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 00:00:25 |
Note: Scouts do not have a Mark V/Core version.
How to use in your fleet
Note that because the Mark IV scout is immune to tachyon beams, it can never be directly targeted by the AI forces. It can only be hit by AOE attacks that are targeting another ship nearby and EMP effects will affect it as normal.
If you like to figure out things such as how may scouts will survive per wormhole traveled, see the section on Cloaking for further information on how cloaking boosters work. In short, one pass through a Tachyon Sentinel will decloak 1/2 of your mark I scouts, and 1/4 of your mark-III. Survival rates depend heavily on how fortified the ingress/egress points are, so it may be worth making Tachyon Sentinel raids until a better solution is available.
How to counter when in the AI fleet
The AI does not use scouts, as it doesn't have need for them.
