I found a minor glitch in Collector drones

[Milkdragon]

SOO i tried the new mining, amazing work. however The glitch I found is when you start mining out a brand new asteroid with 2 collectors out already. Both collectors will go after that One fragment and both will return to your ship, one with the rock the other just empty return.

This glitch basically makes no point in having anything higher class then a A1 collector module

 

[Milkdragon]

wonder how this was not found in beta

 

[xondk]

Report it on the bug forum.

 

[RebellGhost]

Actually it has been found, just not rectified

 

[bend_r]

wonder how this was not found in beta

It was. In Beta 8 this even led to destruction of one of the drones. They changed it so that a drone is not destroyd when loosing its cargo (when the second drone grabs it from the first one).

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=151562

They however did not address the core problem, that the drones go after the same chunk. We have done a lot of drone testing, and written ample bug reports.
How they managed to fix this in such an inadequate way is beyone me.

There is at least one other known issue with the drones - when you collect cargo containers you need to be at zero speed upon delivery.

 

[Milkdragon]

Ok thank you for the reply