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Now drones always fly by straight line, ignoring roboports and any danger. For example:
Drones have task to build and them get resources from chest. The fly directly (red line) and in the middle of path they attacked by enemies.

I thinks that path must be done with "waypoints" (green line). In that case drones won’t be discharged and attacked by enemies.


Also they can be infinity looped if the fly above water.

I would encourage you to use the forum search before making bug reports.

I have found one report from 2017 year. Today is 2020 and there is no fixes for that problem. I think this problem should be mentioned again.

First 3 results for 10s search:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=78429
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=67547
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=60608

Tl;dr of other times this has come up:

This is intentional, doing otherwise would both be far more computationally expensive and make bots too overpowered.