Then you missed the part in my video where the code recognized that the drones were being attacked... My current script detects shield damage on the drones, docks them, deploys combat drones, and then initiates Eve Pilots normal combat modules. I lose 1-5 mining drones per week, which is mostly due to a small logic oversight that really isn't worth the time to hunt down.

And you're wrong, NPCs attack your ship first 99% of the time. They only change to your drones after a 1-2 minutes of your ship not dying.

Maybe I,m just unlucky in 10 years I have all ways had them do for the drones first, I may test this further maybe they have changed something since I last attempted this.