Fenrir wrote:

So what you're saying is...If a direct action merc pulls a plasma rifle on me...I can just run around him as fast as I can and he can't shoot at me? (Because I'm moving as fast as I can, its at the shell's max apeed, which is outside run soeed, which pulls me out of combat and the merc can't affect me with combat rules)???

No. As you attempt to sprint out of combat, the merc will shoot you in the back and wonder what the hell that was all about. There's always a level of realism breakdown in combat rules, but not being able to reach your max straight-line run speed [i]while fighting for your life[/i] isn't one of them.

So this is a question of acceleration. In which case, unless you're like a professional sprinter, like 2 combat turns. And thats what you're doing. So you'd get shot. And that probably stop you from running. UNless you can think of Usian Bolts who then also tumble while gaining speed.

Thank you MrWigggles, you have it exactly. And I wouldn't let you fray or dodge either, because those involve A) Seeing where the fire is coming from and B) moving in directions other than straight ahead. So 99.9% of the time, you will be shot in the back and fall down.

^^^^ Legit.

UnitOmega wrote:

Suicide Drones are basically Smart Mines.

The funny thing is that they were two steps [i]ahead[/i] of the obvious countermeasure to suicide drones, too. They programmed the drones for all the world to look like some rando cheap-shot amateur hour crap that may take someone by surprise once, but will then be spoofed to attack their owners in a glorious orgy of plasmatic irony. The drones were all running a very sophisticated set of passive-sensor IFF routines to distinguish friends. They [i]could[/i] be given legit commands to attack allies/the drone rigger (in case of, say, exsurgent infestation)... But not solely by radio. If they were given [i]illegitimate[/i] commands to attack friends, they auto-attacked the transmitter that sent the command unless it was within burst radius of a friendly, and flagged it hostile on the team tacnet under the presumption that it was spoofing legitimate commands. If an illegitimate attack order came from an otherwise-legitimate source, they screamed out an infosec failure alert that sends [i]everybody's[/i] meshes into failsafe modes that crash out and ignore radio comms entirely and switch to alternative communication protocols, under the presumption that the tacnet had been compromised and a hostile was routing illegitimate commands through an otherwise-trusted transponder.

Trappedinwikipedia wrote:

I'm not really sure what suicide drones do better than a seeker minimissile.

They probably don't trip anti-Seeker detection/countermeasures. Unless they also have Thrust Vector.

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

You can't set a seeker minimissile to stay behind and torpedo the first person to chase you around a corner. You can't send a seeker minimissile to navigate doglegged air ducts and use a multi-tool attachment to cut its way out of the duct in order to detonate its warhead directly against the containment bottle of a fusion reactor. You can't set a dozen seeker minimissiles to act as a Very Dangerous Array which identifies hostiles and, if appropriate conditions are met, engage without requiring further orders.

Maybe you can't :P ... Okay, the multitool bit is a stretch, but that's what 'two' seekers are for :) Otherwise, I'd personally be okay with a character reprogramming seekers to do tasks like that. Worst case I'd make it an upgrade that can be added to seeker launchers.