Issue: salvage drones target the wreck closest to your ship. If you want them not to, you have to control them individually, but then they work just like salvagers except you cant control them with hotkeys. At low skill and using low tier drones its fine they target the same wreck, but as your skills improve and you upgrade your drone they do not actually salvage faster because they spend most of the time idle because they keep targeting the same wreck 1 by 1.
Salvage drones are already smarter than combat or mining drones. They’re the only drones that are capable of finding their own targets.
But if you wish them to target specific wrecks, for example while you target other wrecks with your own salvagers, you can easily assign them to a target wreck like you assign combat drones or mining drones.
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There is a setting in the drone windows that forces drones focus fire. Hower its kind of unreliable. Id like to suggest that when its toggled off drones will not attack/salvage the same target unless there are less eligible targets than the number of drones deployed and when focus fire is on they will always attack/salvage the same target
This reminds me how frustrating it can be when drones decide to target battleships when there are still frigates on grid. I mean frigates are usually the npcs that are the biggest threat to drones.
A potential solution is a new mid or high slot module that improves drone AI