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FlashDog

Fri Oct 22, 2004 7:59 pm

Since when did the harvesters stop moving? no longer can you look out over a field of harvesters and instantly spot one that is sitting idle. it's a royal pain to have to go to each harvester and manually check to make sure that it's pulling something up.

when a resource shifts out, the harvester sits there pulling it up at 0%. when you switch it to a different resource, it APPEARS to continue harvesting, but it has actually stopped. you have to actually close down the whole window, open it up again, and press the start button. didn't use to have to do that

using harvesters now takes a LOT more time. is it broken or is this part of new game design? are there plans to fix any of this?

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CivilizedAphid

Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:10 pm

#2

I doubt that most of the people currently playing even remember when harvesters animated persistently. That was broken more than six months ago, and so far the only recognition on the forums I've ever seen that this ever happened was when I posted in a weekly feedback thread and got no reaction from anybody. This is more important to me than the combat revamp. But we're the only two people who even notice it anymore.

Pawlin

Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:55 am

#3

Ya the harvester animation has been broken for a long time. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt and assuming there is some reason they don't want to fix it. Maybe it causes lag or something. /shrug

The other little bugs with harvester opration seem to come and go every patch or two.

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LadyGrey

Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:39 am

#4

I find it quite amusing. Supposedly the harvester animations cause lag. But I have several droid bodies standing in my house, and they all have an animation sequence they go through. My NPC vendor has random animation. I have some creatures I dropped in the house, that do random animation. There doesn't seem to be a problem with that causing lag. Whenever I open a crafting tool, there is a spinning picture of what I want to make. My inventory used to have everything spinning around, until I figured out how to turn that off. Lots of really useless movement all around, but they break the one animation that was really of some use to us, and then say it is just as well, because it was causing lag.

**sigh**

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FlashDog

Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:35 am

#5

is there a link where they announced that they are leaving it off due to lag?

thank you

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Pawlin

Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:26 pm

#6

FlashDog wrote:

is there a link where they announced that they are leaving it off due to lag?

thank you

Not that I know of. I don't know if the lag explanation was anything more than rumor or hearsay.

Pawlin Construction of Kettemoor.
Harvesters and Crafting stations - Triad Coronet Mall just outside Coronet (-177 -5490)
Architect, House, Furniture, Harvester FAQ
Oprolan the Wookiee of Sunrunner. Cheap resources W. Daeric Talus (-639 -3058)
"Worst FF ever *thumbsdown*" -- Pawlin fan club
"I am not going to win Miss Congeniality again this year in the Senate." -- John McCain

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royalewitcheez

Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:23 am

#7

Not sure who said it, but here's what I heard. The lag isn't from the actual animation of the harvester, but from the query that you have to send to the server every time you pass a new harvester.

So, whenever a harvester loads in your immediate area, you have to ask the server if it is turned on or not, then the server has to check and respond.

Flying through some of the harvester fields out there, I can see where this would be an issue.

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yodachaos

Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:20 pm

#8

i agree. was so much each back in the day when you could just go out to your field and see which harvster was turned off and which ones were turned on.

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Aucob

Mon Oct 25, 2004 12:41 am

#9

royalewitcheez wrote:
Not sure who said it, but here's what I heard. The lag isn't from the actual animation of the harvester, but from the query that you have to send to the server every time you pass a new harvester.

So, whenever a harvester loads in your immediate area, you have to ask the server if it is turned on or not, then the server has to check and respond.

Flying through some of the harvester fields out there, I can see where this would be an issue.

Server queries? Heaven forbid! /sarcasm off

Not that I doubt that explanation came from the devs at some point, but how weak is that? How tough could it be to ping a harvester status? I mean, the server already has to bring back the information about the harvester, like where exactly it is, what kind it is, what the name is, and BTW... IF IT'S IN OPERATION! Yes, that's right, the server is sending back "in operation" status. Don't believe me? Walk up to one of your harvs that you know is working and listen real close. Is it making rumbling noises? Then it's in operation.

I remember large fields of smoothly flowing heavy mineral harvs. I was very relaxing and inspiring, and, as the top poster said, rather useful!

I sure hope they figure out a way to bring this back because it bugs the heck out of me, for no other reason than esthetics. Dvnce, I really hope you at least acknowledge the fact that this bugs some folks.

FlashDog

Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:39 pm

#10

OMG!!! it's fixed! i see harvesters pumping!

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