I enjoyed the evidence links

Also, to add 2c to the thread, it'd be neat if you could customize your streams, Instead of new swarms, I think we have a reasonable amount of types, just the ability to be like:

/swarmtrail pink red orange yellow green blue purple some8thcolor

Gamers love to have custom stuff

Americans could go all red white blue red white blue red white

Anyways just an idea, i still enjoy the current colour schemes to be honest heh

"Rainbow swarms 8 different colours"

Maybe if it's a grab-bag, where each individual missile in the swarm is of a different type.

After their fuel runs out they explode like a firework with a giant conc effect as well.

That'd be fun. People have been asking for fireworks since forever. Dunno when we'd get time to make those effects though..

So many amazing ideas in one thread!
+1 drain swarm
+1 fireworks
+1 more colors for swarms via manufacturing

I haven't gone through the entire post but are these drain swarms being planned to have a capital version too? That would suck, fighters already don't stand a chance against normal capital swarms, they should at least have the ability to run away.

As for just normal drain swarms, I dont see a huge requirement anyway. There's already some buffs added to drain weapons such as the capital PCB and drain mine buff, but they are pointless if normal turrets(non-caprail) continue to not require energy to be fired(unless that's been fixed now).