Sumo experts, is this possible?

[Alpino_WILL_STEAL_ oats!]

I want to know if it’s possible to create a highly advanced drone that chucks all of its logic out with a  decoupler and connectors?

[jbox1]

Easily! Many people do it actually!

Just note, this is often not incredibly beneficial, as the gates should be perfectly fine near the core or back of a drone, but if you already have a button binded to a key, the extra part usually doesn't hurt to much.

In case you're wondering, just bind a button gate to a decoupler and let 'er rip!

[StumpytheOzzie]

One of my failed designs did this. Just a deoupler, mini thruster and about 15 logic blocks wandering off... out the sumo ring.

 

That was about the only part that actually worked properly

[Alpino_WILL_STEAL_ oats!]

What I mean by this is that you could have and advanced large logic array but no space to store it, and with that, you could create a very smart drone that could change the meta, and I mean a lot of logic.

[Alpino_WILL_STEAL_ oats!]

Like belt fed rail guns, or highly advanced heat seeking magnet nets. (I’m joking about the net one)

[Eldrad]

It costs 3 blocks (decoupler, fuel tank, and thruster) to do but is generally worth it in my opinion if you have logic and already win tournaments most of the time. It removes a loss condition of random damage/explosions taking out an important piece of logic. Download Jack from the steam workshop to test how you do against damage.

You can generally get away with tying it to a signal which starts out on that isn't on 100% of the time (i.e. don't bother adding a button). But if you really want it to keep heading as far away from the ring as it can you can set all of your fuel tank's empty and full signals to the same thing and get the effects of a button without spending the block.