Issues, Workarounds & Localization

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Any updates today Affinity?

Been having some problems with my drone control window not popping up after putting drones into an empty drone bay while at a POS. Seems it only happens when I drop drones into the drone bay from a stack of drones that's too large to fit all of them into the drone bay. Like with my worm for instance i drop a stack of 40 drones into the drone bay and the window opens up asking me how many I'd like to put into the drone bay from the stack, I type in 10 because that's all the light drones I can hold in the bay and they go into the bay but the drone control window isn't present. Only way to get the drone control window to display is to take the stack of 10 out of the drone bay and then put it back in. So it seems like the only thing that does it is splitting from a stack into the drone bay when the stack is larger than your drone capacity.

Can anyone help me check if they are getting the same results as me?

= focus fire seems to work and no idle + they stick on the selected target

EDIT 1: Thats 2x missions now... same thing, they appear to be working as intended... need to test this more :D :D
EDIT 2: Hmm, while the drone appear to work I am now getting a graphical issue :P I cant see the rats in space until I've targeted them :P ( rats are still shown in the overview )
EDIT 3: False alarm... after a client restart drone issues are back :P Graphical issue was not an issue, it was alt+shift+z :P

I've been looking into this for the past few days. Thanks to a great video from Grey Stormshadow, I've managed to get a simple reliable repro for the case where mining drones go idle shortly after a roid pops and they are assigned to a new one. I'm working through a couple of possible solutions, and also trying to figure out how this applies to combat drones.

It works exactly same way on combat drones, but as the cycle times on those are way shorter than 60 seconds (like in mining drones), the easiest combat drones to use for reproduction are either sentries or warriors (which move between targets rather fast). When target dies/vanishes it triggers same event than depletion of an asteroid.

Anyway keep up the good work - if you find out a good way to fix mining drones, all the combat drones get fixed on same go.

Just started do some missions again after a few weeks break, and I notice the drones are still acting weird.
First thing I've noticed is that they still can't seem to stick to one target even though they are set to Focus Fire.

You guys still want screenshots and bugreports about this drone stuff?

only sharing my experience, didn't read through the whole thread:

almost reproducable everytime:

fixed window, single client, turret BS with sentries (or whatever drones), drones on focus fire and aggressive.

warp in to mission, launch sentries and let drones engage the first npc that redboxes you in drone control range.
this is ship A.

Engage npc BS (this is ship B) with guns and drones, making them stop firing on ship A.
Engage ship C only with drones while killing off ship B with your guns when you scratch structure.

Drones will refocus on ship A (their initial target) after ship B dies to your guns.

126 days and counting since the bug was introduced and reported.

"A lot of the mistakes we made over the summer were known quite well within our community groups, but they were not getting through to the people making the decisions..." -Hilmar

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You need more likes too for your work pushing this(and now its not ALWAYS in my active thread list )