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Thread: Resource shifts?
Takia wrote:
I was wondering if someone could explain how resource shifts work?
Simply put, they don't.
Lowca and Radiant have to be shifted by hand. Both times Lowca shifted in then shifted a second time within 24 hours. The last time it also bugged all the harvesters that had been running, so we had to wait around before we could redeed our harvesters and move on to the new resources.
Now I notice that it appears Eclipse has had 5 shifts in something like 72 hours.
The thing that bothers me is that the bugs vary from server to server. How could this be? You would think that the code base on the servers is identical.
How they work have changed from the beginning. There's a new pattern which may be the original design.
The shift itself takes several days. You can always tell the beginning of a shift because the solar power will shift. This is your indication to get ready, but you still have several days of waiting. This is phase 1.
After phase 1 materials will slowly start disappearing. Maybe 1, maybe 3, maybe 0 materials will disappear every day. This is phase 2.
DURING phase 2, phase 3 is when new materials start popping in. This overlaps with phase 1.
There is no concrete way of telling when the shift has ended, unfortunately.
when your harvester runs out of stuff to dig up.
There is no tell-tale sign otherwise
When I log in, I check my survey tool to see if any of the resources have vanished from the list. If they have, I need to go check my harvesters. This is the easiest way I have found to check on the shifts.
Dalnin
(Bubo Ubotin, Lowca)
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