Drone Deployment

Drone Deployment allows you to place Drones and costs 4 skill points per level to train. You can at most deploy 3 Temporary drones, except for Engineers which have 6 slots when the Engineer Class Skill Drone Mastery is maxed, or 7 slots if the Adv. subskill Droney is also chosen.

• Temporary Drones: +2 Drone Ops.
• Permanent Drones: +3% to Shield, Energy, Damage, Shield Recharge, Energy Recharge, Tracking, Firing Rate, Radar and Range.

It requires the same or greater level in Piloting in order to train Drone Deployment.

Where to Train

Location	Base Name	Accessibility	Level	Requirements	Notes
Free Market	von Mises and Friedman		3
Sol	Earth Central		3
East Vindia	East Vindia Trading Post		5	1 Magic Attack
Blue Outpost	Blue Outpost		6	1 Blue Aether	Space Blue Alpha and Space Blue Alpha Interceptor drop
Prism	Refraction Station		10	1 Solar Cleansings	Absolution drop
Deflector	Fluxial Pull		11	10 Solar Prisms	Mined in Prism and Arctia
Nihilite	Green Nile		14	5 Bauxite	Prospected
Perpetual Motion	Drone Corp. Universal		16	2 Blue Beta Drone	Space Blue Beta drop
Steppes	Undone Encasement		16	1 Quu Drone	Quu Drones are size 560
Bipolar	Black Precipice		18	1 Blue Gamma Drone	Space Blue Gamma drop.
Ruby Steppes	Ruby Slippers		20	1 Qafir Drone	Qafir Drones are size 7500
Olympus Entrance	Hidden Lyceum Observation Platform	P2P only	21	2 Strife Shards 1 Lightning Shard 1 Swift Shard 7 Cloud Mercury 1,000,000,000 Credits	Requires level 1000 (Mission Based)
Devalaya Dvarata	P.S.S. Stratos	P2P only	22	Uber Kill Commod	Requires level 1500 (Mission Based)
Allied Staging Sector	P.S.S. Nebula	P2P only	22	7 Allied Commendations	Requires level 1500 (Mission Based)

Permanent Drone Slots

The amount of permanent drone slots a drone takes is dependent on it's tech level, shown in the table below.

The amount of permanent drone slots you have is equal to twice your level in Drone Deployment and Drone Research combined.

Tech Level	Drone slots
0-5	2
6-8	3
9-11	4
12-13	5
14-15	6
16-17	7
18-19	8
20	9