[FLHook] Drone Bays

[Hannibal]

After thinking this over, I cannot see this baing used practically on the live server due to certain ways this mechanic would need to work with server rules. A player killed by such a ship would not leave behind a proper kill message. In this case - the flhook needs to display a warning window that a player X is being targetted by Y's drones for sanction material clarity during server log checking. And yes, it means that it also needs to appear in the server logs somehow.

he should be able to add a debug line to satisfy that need

The npc loadouts themselves are an issue as well. @Xalrok can tell you how many times he was requested to adjust the Cultist and Beam Nomad loadouts until they became ''tolerable'' to deal with by snubs. The issue is that npcs will never fly in a way players do, which makes them impossible to balance against both snubs and caps. The main challenge was to make an npc that provides danger against, for example, snubs and that cannot be instakilled effortlessly by capital ships with missiles/turret zoom. Likewise, an npc that can be dangerous to a cap, but cannot instakill a player-flown snub just for flying too close to it/standing still for a moment.

it doesn't have to be good against everything else like were used to in freelancer
e.g : it can spawn a bomber with nova torpedoes which can be good enough against caps or transports but still be killed easily since it shouldn't be that effective as a real player but merely an annoyance in times of need

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