happening for me too

I’ve made some changes to drones, maybe now they will work properly. If they don’t, let’s make some tests:

1) Does anybody have working drones? Please post here!

2) Try other mods with drones, do they work properly on your computer? For example this mod from Conga: http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=596733453&searchtext=
3) Do you have other active mods? Which ones?

4) press \ during the game (it will open the console), then launch a drone. If there is a mistake with blueprint-loading it will be shown on the console. Write here the text of the error message.

5) you can send me the log. On windows logs are saved in the Saved games directory -> Reassembly -> data. (dimkajar@gmail.com)

PS. I’ll be absent for 1-2 days.

found the error: apparantly there is no blueprint. only found { } in the place of where a blueprint should go. (found out using sandbox)
(Image here)

It’s very strange. In my sandbox the blueprint is on its place.

I made a separate faction for drones in order to prevent em from spawning by themselves (without launchers). Looks like relocation went wrong.

I made some tweaks to factions.lua and regions.lua

If this won’t help, I have some more ideas.

i think it's because of the spaces that you named for the drones,
comparing with one mod that used drones, the replaced spaces with underscores ( example: Drone_Fighter)
Try renaming the drones using underscores?

I didn't use spaces in names.
And drone-launchers work perfectly well on my PC.

It seems, that I've finally fixed them.

(pretty sure this only conflicts with Mac users, given the fact that you use PC and i use Mac)
also found another error :<
Image here

ill try using the drones again.
hope it works now

YES, THEY WORK :D

The was an issue where, if the faction got relocated, the references to the blueprints were not also relocated -- thus the drones could not work.

Arthur said he would fix the problem in This Post[www.anisopteragames.com]. I'm not sure if the fix has gone into the current build yet.

At first I added 2 factions, one for main ships (#23 in my sandbox) and one for drones (#24). This way drone parts do not appear in your Databank. Drones worked perfect on my PC (no color problems, no drone-parts in the Databank).

Then I’ve got this issue and found out, that drones worked perfect only on my PC.

After hard testing with a friend of mine I’ve finally found the solution. I set drone blueprints to faction 5 (plants). And this solved the problem with relocation, cause faction 5 is not relocated.

Still not sure, that drones work fine for MAC-users

Its works now :D
thanks!

as of the date that this is posted, the drones are broken, again. i followed the link to the simply fighters mod and he said in the description tha the dev(s) know about this bug. and that they are experimenting to fix it. however i have no idea how long that will take. or i could be completely wrong and it is a bug within the phoenix empire mod itself. either way, it needs to be fixed. the phoenix empire is special because of the fact tat they cn launch drones that are supposed to turn into ships. i hope that this bug gets fixed soon as to return the phoenix empire to their former glory. ALL HAIL THE PHOENIX EMPIRE!!!!!!