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Hello there, I'm a "pseudo" modder who likes to edit custom ships' settings to fit his own playstyle and enjoyment. However, at certain mods I'm having issues with editing the number of drone slots. I simply can't find anything relevant in the .xml file. Am I just not looking clear enough or the only way to do this is to open it up in SMM? All attempts to help will be appreciated.

Indeed, not all ship have entries that define slots by default. But you can add this lines to control the slots (usually after the system lists):
You can use larger and smaller numbers as well, but anything above four weapon and three drone slots will mess up the UI, as you might know. Have fun with you modded ships.

Also, if you increase the # of weapon or drone slots the UI slots will not fit in their boxes. The box will always default to the minimum number though (weapons=3 drones=2). So to work around that little bug all you need to do is increase the size of the smallest boxes in the IMG files. If you kept the max # of drones + weapons at 6 slots then the UI shouldn't be messed up.