Young Nanoswarm broken... nvm I'm just dumb :P

[DakaSha]

I have been sending one nanoswarm after the other at enemies but I havn't reclaimed a single ship.. Am I misunderstanding somthing or is the feature just not working.

[Frozen Critical]

As far as i Can tell , You need to Sent Swarms , or multiple Nanoswarms

[DakaSha]

Hmm as far as I can tell they just zoom in to the enemy, explode.. and thats that. I've unloaded prob 50 into a single ship (they move so fast I cant guarantee they all attacked the same one as they were in FRD mode)

[Giegue]

they reclaim a ship once its near destruction. so near that when it would normally explode, it becomes yours instead. thats how it works with the leech ship, so I'm sure that its similar withh the nanoswarms.

[DakaSha]

Ok so I dont misunderstand it then.. but i could swear that i didn't take over a single ship with them when i had selected them as my starting special ship.. Maybe I just didn't see the switch but meh.

[Lancefighter]

You should have a dedicated dock with only nanoswarms being built.. also possibly an engineer helping it, but I'm not sure its necessary.

spacedockmushroomcannon is what you need.

[Echo35]

Hmm as far as I can tell they just zoom in to the enemy, explode.. and thats that. I've unloaded prob 50 into a single ship (they move so fast I cant guarantee they all attacked the same one as they were in FRD mode)

That's exactly what they do. Then, when the ship dies (Or very nearly anyway), it gets reclaimed.

[Zeba]

I have been sending one nanoswarm after the other at enemies but I havn't reclaimed a single ship.. Am I misunderstanding somthing or is the feature just not working.

Try seeding your nanoswarm with some damage dealers and then watch the magic unfold.

Parasites as a group all have really crappy health and damage so what is probably happening is that your nanoswarm is simply dieing horribly before it can kill anything and reclaim it.

Again try running it with a fighter/bomber screen and see if you get favorable results.

[DakaSha]

I was mixing them with standard units.

also my leech starships arnt taking over anything either... Arnt they supposed to mark multiple targets (up to 40 if i recall correctly) and when the marked ships explode they become yours?

Or are the leech ships maybe not piercing through the armor and therefore not causing any damage?

edit: started a new game and made some leeches. they were working. Maybe the ships are just getting destroyed right after being reclaimed in my other game

edit again: *sigh*  I sent 3 leeches towards a frigate.. They fired at it multiple times and damaged it. It was then destroyed by a different ship and definitely didn't become mine..

I'm confused

[superking]

how2 nanoswarm:

1) unlock enclave starships
2) build max cap of said enclave starships
3) send encalve starships with fleet into enemy system
4) put all enclave starships on FRD, give build order of 1x nanoswarm repeat
5) nanoswarms everywhere

[DakaSha]

To bad they dont do what they are supposed to (again as far as i can tell)

edit: ok could it be that its not working due to ship cap? can you only take over ships until you hit your cap?

Guess ill test it now

edit: lol well after killing all my ships it worked.. now i feel like a tool.