Talk:Drone/@comment-29837578-20191116103611/@comment-30175469-20191116163352

While as an author i can agree here, given the lack of the ability to actually conflicts with the main theme of the story, as a developer i sorta disagree here. There's 1 major issue that has 2 sub categories in my opinion on the subject, although the devs have voiced 2 main points against it.

The first issue is loading and unloading/catch up. With how its currently made having them go between ranch expansions is a serious headache just from path finding since the paths need to between 2 maybe 3 cells that aren't all loaded at once anyway. This can lead to a number of issues easily, so then we would want to look at the warp depot, which as currently coded with everything would work fine... if the player only loaded cells in a particular order, with drones having a specific set of instructions... otherwise there's a decent chance for item deletion or duplication, and one could easily exploit this with a set up currently if they were to be added.

The second reason the devs gave was automation. Drones aren't meant to fully automate a ranch (which while true, will say at this point all you need to do is water them, and thats before advanced drones.) And this would give assistance to such. This is the one i don't fully agree with given how much drones already do.