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Originally posted by Bman:
If you want to use a drone for reconnaisance on a warppoint to see if it is defended/mined, then I suppose you could do this (If you have seen the system before or are Ancient Race): give a drone the order to attack a planet in the system (I am hoping you can give this order even for empty planets since you don't know which planets have colonies or not without any ships in there...if they limit the Attack to planets with colonies then you could try attacking all the planets to discover which had colonies!). Your drone should warp into the system and move towards the planet. You'll definately know whether it hit any defenses on the warppoint or what is in the system even.
At least in the demo Version it is not possible to give drones an attack order for a planet in a system where you don't have any ships.
I don't see any reason why drones can't have the "move to" order and really hope that this will be changed.
I fully agree that the inability to recover drones is crucial but some sort of control over the drone launch is needed if they are to be useful.
Don't misunderstand my post: I am enthusiastic about drones, but I think to get the full possibilities some hard coded changes have to be made by MM in a future patch IMHO. Or what are the opinions of the beta-testers on this point?