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Not very long, if you were just testing it. I have an actual game where I wasn't trying to do anything like that, and drones got up to a couple-hundred. If the game goes on for much longer, it could happen. Not to mention something like the Adamant 0006 PBW game (Proportions meets practically infinite asteroids = ungodly construction). A high-tech start test using a cheap design would probably reach it pretty soon.

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