This is not a bug , but an exploitable scenario. Not necesarily on purpose.
When you are using droids and they drop to the ground (when you have no inventory, or as i have observed, if the slot they flew out from has been taking by another item) other players are picking them up. This is 90% not nefariois as most people have automaton and it auto picks it up.
I was wondering in PVE if droids can be added to forbidden objects to prevent this.
Hello!
Thanks for reporting. Sure, we've added a 15 minutes claim for such dropped drone and its items for the upcoming patch for the A27 experimental version.
Regards!