I have no issues using engineer, and when I actually played I was one of the best in PvP and PvE for a very long time.
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The reason I advocate for a rework of the drone system is that it is unfair to newer players; the price of drones and the availability will skyrocket with a massive influx of new players. Temporary weapons that can be lost on a whim are not very appealing to new players.
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Especially in a PvP scenario. You know what is targeted first in PvP? Not the healers keeping everyone alive, but the engineer's drones. Solely due to the fact that it will cost an engineer X amount of credits and it will potentially disable their ability to fight back or be of any real threat until they replace their drones.
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That is not okay from any viewpoint, including cost, utility, or balance wise. You cannot justify a person being useless in a pvp scenario because they were killed once; it just isn't fair.

Semi-alternative suggestion:
Drones blow up like bases do, leaving a "destroyed" version behind. Destroyed version acts like a dead base, doesnt shoot, cant be used as a tank. Scoop it and you get the drone back, but damaged.

A nice way of implementing it into the repair system.

True, in the same meaning as bases going to stasis. So, i find this idea easyer to implement, doesnt change game mechanics(generators, which i do like), fits in with the repair system. What are the counters?

Hmm, didn't think of that at the moment. Roswell drones are nice, but by changing game mechanics, i mean't that currently a droner can lay 6 AIDs(or whatever drone you prefer) within a few seconds(moving time), with drone gens there would be no way to do that, which would change the way that droners work. Then again, drone stasis would need some implementing. I find those ideas equal.

They are limited to 1 drone at a time. That's the point. They can never be used to place multiple drones at a time with this system.

Thats why I said, 1 generator is attributed to 1 drone. When you do a perp motion mission or build with a bp, you can get multiple. Well, swap every mission reward and build result drone with the generator that would produce said drone, and boom, we have gens.