1 hour ago, OmegaFerret said:
Yep that was it. Logged into the game picked up drone then logged out and no problem that time. gonna see if its a problem if there is something in its having something in its inventory or just having the drone out itself.
And it is having the drone itself out.
If you have ever used a mod on that game and the mod has custom items and any of those are still in your drone after you removed the mod, that could be the cause. Otherwise, I can't tell you why it is giving you the problem. But placing it back down might solve it. It basically resets the drone info in the drone file when you pick it up and put it down. If it still gives errors after putting it back down, you might have to just get a new drone and get rid of that one.
You could also pick up the drone and then exit the game and delete both drone files from your save folder and then try again. There is also a console command you could try while the drone is in your inventory: jd clear
In both cases, if you're hosting a multiplayer game, it would be better to have everyone pick up their drones before trying those.