more advanced drones?

[Xoyv]

so drones are a BIg help around the palce, giving you more time to do stuff in the day sicne you don't have to wake up, feed the slimes, and such. but the fact that you can only really have two drones per expansion is a little off putting. but then my brain came up with an idea

how about three tiers of drones, basic, intermediat, and advanced. tier 1 would be what we already have, tier 2 would alow for additional jobs to be done, and tier three could handle three jobs AND be faster

now, you may be wondering how a drone could handle additional jobs? and the answer is simple: priority

you set job one to collect food and put it into autofeeders, job two to collect plots and put it into silo, and job three to collect plorts and sell them on the market

job one takes the highest priority, meaning the drone would complete the task before going to another one
job two is to be done after one due to a lower priority
job three is to be done if job two can't be completed, AKA once the silo doesn't have any more space for a specific type of plort

[Nareth Erakian]

To be honest, the drones already do 99% of the job on my ranch extremely efficiently.
We should get a rank one that is worse than what we currently have and have the current drone be the final version.
Because with these, you can almost fully automate your entire ranch by mid-game... >_>

[Xoyv]

i mean, there's still a lot of stuff to do off ranch like collecting resources, looking for treaure pods, and finding gordos, and not ahving to go back and make sure the slimes are filled and the plort colelctors are fed kind of helps

[Nareth Erakian]

Originally posted by Xoyv:

i mean, there's still a lot of stuff to do off ranch like collecting resources, looking for treaure pods, and finding gordos, and not ahving to go back and make sure the slimes are filled and the plort colelctors are fed kind of helps

I have a drone feeding the slimes and another one selling the plorts, so that is already automated. The remaining stuff to do is explore for me. :P

[Sweptiplick]

I'd personally either really want 3 drones per area, or an 'if this, then that' function. By which I mean like 'Food goes from garden to auto-feeder, but IF auto-feeder is completely full, THEN food goes into silo'. Now when the auto-feeder is completety full the drones just leave the food in the garden to waste away. And I won't sacrifice my plort collector and seller drone, that's too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tedious to do myself.

[Xoyv]

exactly. like if refinery and refinery links become valid targets, have a drone fill a silo with plorts for selling, and when the silo is full dump any extra plorts into the refinery

[Slim Shady]

Xoyv makes the best point on any of these threads. Extra water tank does not matter. Storage does not matter. More flexibility DOES matter.