Seem it got fixed by one of the patches afterward but broke again with the latest. Sadly like to play with drones but I'm not going to disable my other monitors to play with 1.180.

Most of the time drones do work as long as both the drone and the vessel you are in have working antennas in range. The bug with the remote control being greyed out can be fixed by adding a cockpit and hopping in it. Then you can grind it down and the drone will work.

Good to know if I play again, finish the Senario and move my whole base to a new map. To bad the sernario doesn't have more then just mars. But did a easy mars start, deleting the easy start base and put my stuff in the crater near it. So now got a similiar planet, pirates to deal with instead of the Corp and planet/asterroids and using the Exploration mod for more stuff.

stardruid, Shift + K will yeild results for quick remote, and passenger seats. seat in one on a drion. take control via K menu. and then extra. leave seat or grind. but it will work after, (i found till map reload. or that area is unloaded.
EG: if you have a roid base with a grinder drone. you leave your drone there but then go off mining say.. 30k away. your roid.base might become unloaded untill you get back in range. so you might need to sit in the seat again... take controle ect.

would just point out same thing will happen on planets with distance from objects with only one player.
however i did notice if your playing in offline mode. (no F3 menu) you dont get this as much. even while away.

im guessing they have it set so you can go futher from your ships. (i have my view distance at max 50k) but even at lower base and other stuff will be unloaded based on max LOD>

Hope all works oout..

PS: with your triple monitors. did you think you could just turn off x2. it should auto revert back to singel. utill others are powered on.. DesktopOK is good to save your icon locations. (i have 3 screens and a 50inch TV) all connected atm.

*Peace*

My problem is I never just play the game, got ADD and can't focuse on just one thing, so I always have something something else going on in my second monitors, be it livestreams, video or other slower games like Anno 2070, factorio etc that take a long time of waiting.

Drive me nut on my laptop so when I use it to play space engineer I end up playing my phone near my laptop screen with a video or lifestream.

But not a issue now, I finished the play through of the Senario. But beside the drone issue the Senario was quite playable with the latest version beside some wierd issues with land no loading etc because of the memory leak they finally fixed.