quick docking drones on m7 light carrier / m1?

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jamafish
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quick docking drones on m7 light carrier / m1?

Post by jamafish » Fri, 11. Nov 11, 00:18

is there a faster way to collect drones you unleashed other than running them over or telling them to protect you and waiting for them to dock through a free docking port?
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Post by stealthhammer » Fri, 11. Nov 11, 02:55

MARS script works great.

Check the scripting section if you don't mind going modified.
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Post by burger1 » Fri, 11. Nov 11, 04:15

Jumping out of sector and jumping in a disposable tm or other ship with docking bays and telling the drones to protect it seems to be the fastest. Collecting drones while you are in a different sector seems fastest.
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Post by jamafish » Fri, 11. Nov 11, 05:40

read the mars script manual and I never saw anything about retrieving drones, I'll give it a shot. thanks
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Post by Nick Northern » Fri, 11. Nov 11, 06:15

Always use a second ship to jump out of the sector the drones are in. Then have the ship you want to collect the drones issue a command to all drones in sector to return to ship. This makes the process much easier.

Now nothing stands in your way from dumping 200 drones in a Xenon sector. :p
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Post by Godzii » Sun, 13. Nov 11, 08:12

Nick Northern wrote:...have the ship you want to collect the drones issue a command to all drones in sector to return to ship...
How?!

I was using 2 TLs, one transferring wares back from a station with freight drones, the other one then exchanging cargo with the former (and jumping away...).

Freight drones don't always appreciate the move apparently, since 3 times they would just idle in space after that, even refusing to reckon their launching TL as a dock-able ship after that move.

Writing this I realize that maybe -probably- I didn't wait for them to dock back. It's weird though because the mammoth had the 12.000 crystals I asked for, so I thought the freight drones would consequently be on board too. Meh.

In any case, I gave up issuing individual command to the 60 of them after the third incident... Is it possible to issue an 'all' command to freight drones too?
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