break down T1 drones to make T2 drones

[Zarinthal]

no way to recall? I have to go to each storage and turn off supply and demand, rebuild the drones, then go back and turn all the supply and demand back on?

[avatar.zero]

Set your drone station to supply T1 drones and a container to demand them. When a T1 drone goes idle, it will park in the drone station. Another drone will then move it into the container. Once in storage, the drone will no longer participate in the logistics system, allowing you to take it to a recycler for disassembly.

[Zarinthal]

thanks, I'll try that! but mine are far from going idle

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

thanks, I'll try that! but mine are far from going idle

Set the priority relatively high, then. Even with massive activity, drones will still stop and dock from time to time.

[Crescens]

When I did this, it was at the height of my stockpile being crated. My drones would still find the time to grab a T1 drone and place it in the cabinet that I had set to demand.

It is true that it took a while for the entire set of T1 drones to be placed in the demand container, but it happened.

[SmokedHalibut]

Yes doing that does work.

They should still improve it because it's a silly system - not least because the drone station lists your drones but doesn't tell you which are tier one or two so you don't know if you've got any left. Now, I check the number I have before building any tier 2 ones, and recall them all to a storage locker and make sure I've got them all before I disassemble any Tier 1s. I write down the number of T1 before building any - I'd forget it if I didn't.

Basically it's a tedious chore and it doesn't add anything to the game to have it this way.

[Zarinthal]

seems like they should be able to use teleporters too, but maybe I just haven't figured that out yet

[avatar.zero]

Originally posted by Zarinthal:

seems like they should be able to use teleporters too, but maybe I just haven't figured that out yet

Currently available drones won't use teleporters, but I've always thought that would have been a good upgrade for if they ever decide to add T3 drones.

[prtmh]

Just be glad they can phase thru things. They'd be really slow if they had to go around all the mountains .

[Zarinthal]

Originally posted by prtmh:

Just be glad they can phase thru things. They'd be really slow if they had to go around all the mountains .

honestly I wouldn't mind that for realism, except it would bog down CPU even more lol

I'd prefer they didn't phase through objects but could use teleporters. I think in the long run this would be best

[Robirda]

Lol... too funny, I can see it now - I go to use the teleporter and it's stuffed full of drones... and who selects where we go? Might look kind of interesting coming out of the thing in a cloud of them tho, I guess! ;-P

Me, I do drones the easy way - I don't make any until I have the chip to unlock and make the level two drones, I have everything else ready to go by then, and no messing about swapping them out - too much trouble so far as I'm concerned, easier just to avoid it altogether.

It's not as if it takes heaps of time or trouble, just a few rounds of loading up the space-crates (trade rockets) manually, but it's not that big a deal, and you don't have to do it for all that long if you buy the level 2 drone chip first. (Or second - I usually get the larger storage first)

But it's all 'cause I'm a big fan of Keeping It Simple. Over-complicating things is easy - keeping it simple is the tough part of the job. ;-D