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I agree completely with the high quality of this forum. It gives you really useful informations.
About the drones. I am glad that I am not the only one missing them. I didn't read anything about them in the Last time, so I was fearing that they might be dropped. No idea what they be like, however some features I would appreciate:
Basically the structure, cost and components as fighters but they can move through warp points. On the other hand when they are launched they cannot be recovered and would be selfdestroyed after a fixed period of time (e.g. 0.6 years for small, 0.8 for medium and 1.0 for large drones). Like that they would be a great tool for reconnaissance especially if mine fields are present (they would of course be destroyed by the mines, but they are cheap), but also for combat against fortified colonies. They could be launched from planets and ships/bases (if the latter have a drone bay).
Let's hope they will be in the game some day.