You need to have all parts of a drone completed and fitted to a ship before it will increase in level when a team wins. If you only get a Drone when the team has just the final left to play then you will only get 3% fire power and not 9%.
In short, you have until 12 June 2012 to get the drone you want or you have no chance of getting 9% fire power.
Lets face it, unless the winning team wins all 7 of their games then nobody will get 9%. lol
I asked a GM yesterday if they would be rotated to different planets and the response was he was they we not aware of any plans to rotate them.
Also, If these Drones are permanent, and will always show a countries flag, then who would want to fly around in a ship with a countries flag different to the country they come from?? So unless you a from one of the countries that are one of the favourites then expect to get 3 or 4% fire power at most. It's debatable whether 3 or 4% is really going to make any significant difference anyway.
I appreciate SplitScreen are making an effort to put events on more often now, but this one is just going to cause a lot of resentment to the majority of players in my opinion. Also, all the events now seem to be Gold driven to an extent, which is causing frustration amongst players I've spoken to.
Only positive point is that everyone in a squad gets a drop when one mission is completed instead of one drop between all. Guess it's a start in the right direction.
I for one will not be bothering with this event. (I'm English so there's a very good chance of not winning any games. lol )