Player Drones
Drones are a facility's best friend. Pilots can purchase their own drones and send commands to them. A drone can trade items from every location's store as well. Additionally, drones can collect goods from your facilities.
Drone Tasks
This is a list of all tasks drones can currently do.
- Buy goods from location.
- Sell goods to location
- Collect goods from pilot-owned facility
- Deposit/Withdraw goods to/from pilot's personal warehouse.
Upkeep
A single drone cost $5,000 per week to maintain. Drone upkeep fees will be charged to your ledger. Drone upkeep does not increase based on drone level.
Faction
Each faction has its own drone with unique attributes. New attributes will be announced as the drones mechanic is expanded.
| Gemini | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Eris | |
| Cost | $15,000,000 | $100,000 | $100,000 | $5,000,000 | $10,000,000 |
| Cargo Space | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
| Cargo Size | M
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S
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S
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XL
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S
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| Armor | 500 | 100 | 100 | 1,000 | 100 |
| Shields | 500 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 100 |
| Attack | 25 | 25 | 50 | 0 | 10 |
| Defense | 25 | 50 | 25 | 100 | 10 |
| Heat Rating | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2,000 | 0 |
Mods
| Weapons | Shields | Armor | Sensor | Utility | Engine | Wildcard | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terran | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Gemini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Martian | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Erisian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| JayCo | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
The drone/mod mechanic is being actively being developed. This is the list of attributes that are currently live for drones:
- Engine Efficiency
- Cargo Space
Levels
When a drone earns XP equal to 1 X current level, the drone will level up.
XP
Drones receive XP for various activities.
- 1 XP for each trip taken.
- 1 XP per item purchased.
- 1 XP per items sold.
Max Drone Level
60
Drone Combat
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Ships can attack drones while in the same space lane.
Energy Cost: 10
Notes
- Facilities whose production is paused due to full capacity will be resumed when a drone removes items from that facility.
- Pilots receive no XP for drone activity.
- Pilots receive no location reputation for drone activity.