Manually change/draw drone path

[flacwby]

Can we change or build the drone path manually?

[mreed2]

If you are referring to the path which the drone travels on between buildings, no -- but you can influence it a bit, by selectively upgrading roads. This is because drones prefer to travel on upgraded roads if they can do so to reach their selected destination.

If you are referring to the territory that a drone hub / worker drone covers, no. Due to the fact that these territories are subject to change at a moments notice due to the attrition of worker drones, any manually drawn territory would be erased in short (2-5 in game years) period of time.

I assume that the reason you are asking the question is that you have run into a situation where a factory is idle due to lack of inputs that you desperately need to start producing goods and you are looking for a lever that you can pull to cause it to start producing goods. According to the global stockpile, there are plenty of goods available, and it is entirely possible that you have a nearby source of the required raw material sitting in a mine.

Not an uncommon complaint, honestly. The game does a very, very, very bad job at providing the information that you need in a simple, intuitive way to diagnose these sorts of problem, and that's the number one source of complaints on this forum. So much so that I wrote a guide specifically for the purpose of helping players figure out how / why these problems are occurring:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2319632408

Assuming my diagnosis of your underlying problem is correct (you have lots of goods in the global stockpile, yet a factory is idle) I'd recommend reading over the "Bottlenecks" section first.

[flacwby]

Thanks so much. Actually I understand the issue with bottlenecks, mine was really more of a OCD type situation where I like neat and tidy networks. However I'm glad you responded because I can now read your guide and understand even better.