Are Riot Starships worth using?

[Commiesalami]

I imagine that the enclaves producing nanoswarms or autobombs are fairly terrifying.  Or at least hilarious.

I tired this, having enclaves underneath a cloaker pour out mk1 autobombs on FRD mode with a engineer or two to help.  The autobombs just fly out and completely overshoot their targets.  Its fun to watch but not too effective until the autobomb FRD logic against moving targets is fixed.

[Echo35]

Are Riot Starships worth using?

What is this blasphemy?  How else can you swarm a planet with an Eye and still take no damage?

Use a few spire fleet ships, or you know, just nuke it?

Nuke == AIP. Riot Starship == hilarious swarm damage.

[Sunshine!]

2. The auto-build mechanic does not work properly. Specifically, it does not preserve different modules at the same tech level (for example, if I manually build one laser and one machine gun, if one is destroyed, it does not automatically rebuild the destroyed modules. I may end up with two lasers instead).

This should only happen if you set up a repeating queue for the module construction.  If you don't have a queue running, it should just auto-rebuild whatever module was originally in that slot.

[Fleet]

2. The auto-build mechanic does not work properly. Specifically, it does not preserve different modules at the same tech level (for example, if I manually build one laser and one machine gun, if one is destroyed, it does not automatically rebuild the destroyed modules. I may end up with two lasers instead).

This should only happen if you set up a repeating queue for the module construction.  If you don't have a queue running, it should just auto-rebuild whatever module was originally in that slot.

Oh..uh... thanks for the protip Sunshine!

[Red Spot]

Yeah, I had that wrong at first as well. Took some interventions before I noticed I didn't have to do that very annoying bit of micro

Tooltip update anyone?

[TheDeadlyShoe]

If I get riots at all I get the Mk2s. I stick the MkIs in with my regular fleet and use the mk2s as troubleshooters.  The tazers are fantastic in any doom-swarm scenario, like a spire plot swarm.