Drone Deployment

Drone Deployment allows you to place Drones. Temporary drones have a limit of 3 drones deployed at once, but Drone Mastery allows you 6 when maxed. DD cost 4 skill points per level and the drones also recieve +150 shields per level.

You'll require an even or greater level in Piloting in order to train Drone Deployment. For instance, although Ruby Steppes trains to 20, F2P's can only train Drone Deployment to 19 because they are limited to 19 in Piloting.

For Universe-specific skill training locations, please visit this thread.

Permanent Drone Slots

You gain two permanent drone slots for each level in Drone Deployment and Drone Research. Each permanent drone takes a number of those slots based on its tech level, based on the table below.

Slots=((Drone Deployment + Drone Research) x 2).

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

Where to Train

Location	Base Name	Level	Requirements	Notes
Sol	Earthforce Frontier Station, Earth Central	3	None
Prism		12	Solar Cleansings	Drop from AIs in Absolution
Steppes		16	Quu Drone	Quu requires 560 hull space each.
Ruby Steppes		20	Qafir Drone	Requires a ship with 7500 free hull space.
Lyceum		21	Several Olympus Uber Kills (Mission-Based)	Requires level 1000
Subspace		22	Uber Kill and commod	Requires level 1500