Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <surviving-mars>
Title: Is there a way to reassign drones in batch or automatically?
Question: Let's say I ordered from Earth 100 drones and I want to dispatch all of them through many different Drone Hubs. Do I have to click on each of them and reassign one by one individually? Is there a way to reassign drones in batch or automatically?

Answers:
sents: text: A quicker way than the other solutions currently here: Select the drone hub that you want to assign from Click "Dismantle drone" - this will turn the drone into a drone prefab.
text: Repeat until you've disassembled the number of drones that you want to move.
text: Select the drone hub that you want to assign to.
text: Click "Construct drone" to recreate all of your disassembled drones.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/126840/Symmetric
score: 3
sents: text: As of 19.03.2018 - No, there is no way to mass-assign drones.
text: Manuel Clicking is required.
text: Sadly there is still not even a mod for it.
text: 100 is a rather huge amount.
text: But when I get around ~10'ish my favorite way to assign them is this: Pause game Select Rocket.
text: Click drone assign to quickbar repeat
text: 2~4
text: till all drones are on the bar Go to Dronehub use quickbar to select drone assign to hub remove from quickbar repeat 7~9 till done
text: I believe this list shows that this is a serious flaw and will hopefully be fixed soon.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/87226/Shaeldon
score: 1
sents: text: Left click on drone hub, RC drone, or Rocket.
text: All drones assigned to it will be shown.
text: Left click on the drone you want to reassign.
text: Right click on hub, RC drone, or Rocket
text: you want them assigned to.
text: Depending on drone slot availability, it will be reassigned.. Quick.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/208538/Dimitris
score: 1
sents: text: A very simple trick I just discovered is the following:
text: Land the Rocket filled with drones near a Drone Hub Wait for the drones to leave the Rocket and idle Launch the Rocket back to Earth after it fully refuels This should auto-assign all drones to the nearest Drone Hub.
text: Hope this helps!
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/208794/Erik Wickenhöfer
score: 1
sents: text: I've noticed that you can just launch the rocket and all the drones will be spread among drone hubs in range.
text: Then from drone hubs the easiest way to reassign is to deconstruct drones at one hub and reconstructing them at another.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/208904/Fobio24
score: 1
sents: text: Finally, here is my fastest method.
text: For each drone: Add a hub to quick bar Click drone Click "Assign" Right click on the Hub in the bar
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/138930/Galabyca
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
There is no way to mass-assign drones. Manual clicking is required. You can select the drone hub that you want to assign from Click "Dismantle drone" - this will turn the drone into a drone prefab.
There is no way to mass assign drones like that. However there are a number of workarounds, for example if you fill a rocket with drones, it may auto assign them to the nearest hub or selecting the drone hub you want, and clicking Dismantle Drone