-locatordrone gone mad:!

[passenger8]

-yes, after the "update" the locatordrone uses more energy than i can collect.
-recycling the drone and buy a new, do not solve the problem.
-i still owe my drone more than 10,000e, and i can hold 4,500e.
-so no christmasevent for me, untill this problem is solved.

-ps, this happened to me trying to do the event on the gaiaserver.
-and after that, same thing happened on the aeriaserver.
-somebody put a stop to this madness!!!

 

[handsanitizer]

Yup its been doing this since the first day of the event for me, takes 24k e to recharge the drone my e cap is only 10.5k good game^^

 

[Adrana]

This issue has been reported, and it is something what will be fixed, so hold on, keep your calm and all will be good. ^^

 

[universemaster21!]

Up the drop rate for Mantis Mizar Storm and the Drone a little bit. 3 days and all i get from those boxes are useless bps i got on day one.

 

[passenger8]

-thanks adrana -i´m still waiting in patience. -is it possible that we can get some info in forum when the problem is solved?
-i continue to cross my fingers for a fast solution. (especially for the vegapilots, who can only collect the highest energyorbs on aurora)

-it looks like that the drones energycap raises with our ranks, handsanitizer?
-i have seven pilots at rank 37 and one pilot at rank 42, so i should be able to check it out. (if i dare?

 

[tuusk]

I can only confirm this that locatordrone seems to take 670e every 30 seconds or something,
and has close to 20k of capacity on my level - means it does not last very long and takes 2.5x of
my max energy to refill. Also, unlike 1st days, new drones you buy are depleted now.


Best workaround I have found is to go some higher system and refill
half dozen drones with energy and then return for gift-hunting in Vega.
They last 15 minutes each - maybe 8-10 stashes.
It might be benefitial to switch ship for picking up bp though
as collecting high level bp with low collector can take several
minutes and waste lot of drone energy.


I discovered much better workaround yesterday:
just install multiple drones on your ship and switch to locator-drone only when you need it, which is 2-5 triangulation scans and revealing stash. Then swap it back to some non-broken drone, like Plus cryo-drone or pumpkin-drone while moving or chatting. Locator-drone energy can last very long time as you can usally get scan in few seconds. Players who do not have any other drones can just use empty locatordrone in other slot. It gives annoying popup but should work just as well. Extra drone slots do not cost much on lower rank ships: 3 cryo for second and 7 cryo for third drone socket on your 2nd starting ship.

 

[Adrana]

Not really, if you are not member it will waste time to go to hangar to switch to higher ship, just for to collect a bp.
The highest collector in Vega serve just fine, the time wasted goes more for when you collect e, and you are not actively searching, it keeps on draining the e.
Best idea is to get the highest collector on Vega from R15 harvesters before you start to seek Stashes and before you activate locator.

Yes the energy consume for the Locater raises with your level, aka with your normal cap.
Still Vega pilots and low pilots on drone depletion need to recharge e way over their caps, so is everyone.

What you can do for to help your situation when you are not member, or when you are member, is to buy all 3 slots of drones, install 2 Locater drones, then one other drone, when you need to collect e, switch to the drone non locater one. PLUS drone is good for that purpose if you got it, as for many it is the only drone owned.

It also works if you go to Higher system to collect e for to recharge your locater, while you collect switch to other drone, and if you have, to one what is not leveling and wasting e for it.

If you are a Vega player, then the idea above of buying lots of Locater drones and keep them in hangar, have 2 installed and when 1 is fully depleted switch to the other one.
Of course I also understand it is not easy to just buy and buy on Vega, the cry is low, and hard to gather, but it will help.

Sirius pilots who owns a Jumpship, easier to refill as hangar is in orbit of the planet, shoot a few mantis around on Lz and you can get known bp's with 1500 Energy.

This is hard even for the highest pilots, but I heard it is easier on Kalabesh than on Vega, so you might want to try out there.

Ah, collect known bp's for a bit higher e. ^^

 

[universemaster21!]

I have an idea to try to solve this problem. Instead of the drone taking you entire e cap, why don't you choose how much e to give it at a time. So it won't drain your entire tank and you won't have to spend 40 minutes collecting e in Vega. Seems a logical soloution to a drone that takes up far to much energy than it needs to.