I had been searching for "looting with cargo drones" and found no post so far. So I just created this thread
I have been using a lot of different ship types to loot containers automatically. I like medium ships but needed a lot of them to get the job done. That spammed my porperty overview. Fleeting them up where no option becaus fleets can't use highways as I would like them to do. Destroyer class is my prefered option. For looting they can launch less cargo drones than auxiliary ships but they are faster so I need not too many to cover a site 24/7 and they haven't major differences in behavior when in fleet or not. With destroyers as looters and commanders in fleets my property overview is nice and clean. At least in this regard
But:
- Cargo drones are launched once per "Collect Drops" command. if new drops pop up while drones are out for looting no further unused drones are launched for the new drops.
- Unlike S and M ships cargo drones don't mark cargo drops as in progress (green) what makes drones of several ships going for the same drop while ignoring drops wich haven't drones coming for them.
This is frustrating for me when I watch what my looters do. Are containers still despawned by timer when already carried by a drone? If yes that is also very irritating for me.
I would appreciate a change to improve the described behaviors.
Cheers
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