Drone Deployment
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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 has 6 slots when the Engineer Class Skill Drone Mastery is maxed.
- Temporary Drones: +150 Shields
- Permanent Drones: +2% to Shield, Energy, Damage, Shield Recharge, Energy Recharge, Capacity, Tracking, Firing Rate, Radar, Range, and Cloaking.
It is required the same or greater level in Piloting in order to train Drone Deployment.
Where to Train
| Location | Base Name | Accessibility | Level | Requirements | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fly Times | Flylet Research Outpost | 2 | |||
| The Nexus | Janitor's Outpost | 2 | |||
| 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 | |
| Lavanite | Lava Visions | 7 | 1 MagCannon II Drone | ||
| Glass Matrix | Ice Matrix | 8 | 1 Ice Drone | Ice Drones are size 300 | |
| Prism | Refraction Station | 10 | 1 Solar Cleansings | Absolution drop | |
| Deflector | Fluxial Pull | 11 | 10 Solar Prisms | Mined in Prism and Arctia | |
| Serpica | Scale Center | 12 | 1 Qafir Drone Blueprint | Bought at Serpica -- 3,000,000 Credits | |
| Nihilite | Green Nile | 14 | 5 Bauxite | Prospected | |
| Shadow | Lush Incision | 14 | 1 Advanced Mining Drone | ||
| 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 (Mission Based) | Requires level 1000 |
| Kandara Dvarata | P2P only | 22 | Uber Kill and commod | Requires level 1500 |
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 |
