Drone

Experimental

Drones are aerial vehicles that operate on Batteries by flying between selected Drone Ports.

Usage
Each Drone can only be assigned to 1 loading Drone Port, and that loading Drone Port can only be assigned to 1 unloading Drone Port. There is no limitation on the numbers of assigned Drones unloading on a Drone Port, however one must be queued before the other fully unloads. Waiting Drones will circle above the Drone Port.

When flying from one port to another, a Drone will shows a take-off animation, wiggling around, rise vertically, turning mid-air then fly roughly in a straight line to the destination, then descends, followed by some wiggling animation and finally docks. Drones will attempt to navigate around obstacles mid-flight. As the take-off and landing can take up a considerable amount of time, the efficiency of Drones increases with distance.

The Drone runs on 5 Batteries per trip and is potentially the 2nd fastest mean of transportation, second to Hyper Tube Cannon. Engineers can stand on the drone for a ride, however a fall protection equipment such as Jetpack is highly recommended as the Drone will push away the Engineer mid-air when it starts accelerating forward.

History

 * Patch 0.4.0.4:
 * Potential fix for a scenario where the Drones would take a nonsensical path to their destination
 * Fixed a bug where Drones would teleport when dismantling a Drone Station they are about to dock on
 * Fixed a rare crash related to Drones
 * Fixed Drone Ports allowing duplicate names
 * Patch 0.4.0.0: Introduced