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Thread: the proper way to use a resource droid
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GALACTICGURU
Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:44 pm
#1
hello all
Iam headed back to my roots and taking up surveying resources again which i have not done since i made my first 5mil in the first three weeks the game launched.
i know there has been alot of changes and i have benn unable to keep up with all of them but can someone enlighten me on the proper way to use the planitary survey droids
i have sent 1 out before and got the email back from its discovery. Is that all they do or am i missing something?
thanks for ur help 
ravingbantha
Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:57 am
#2
that's all they seem to do... which is why they are a waist of material. Be cool though of they could locate spawns of a certain percantage and the more you sent out the higher the percentages they find
agree
Angelshadowx
Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:51 am
#5
They are not that bad, you Droid haters 
Look at it this way, you need a named resource for X (I'm thinking Master WS, AS, DE's here...) you step out of your house, launch 10 survey droids, with 10 Mineral Survey devices, rinse and repeat with chemical and gas if need be. Wait however long, up to 30 minutes, during this time you Craft, do combat socialize. So you have fun and save creds, At the alloted time, you have a complete list of everything on all planets, didn't cost you jack to shuttle to each planet to discover it. And you did other fun stuff at the same time.
Once you have your lists, you select a planet, shuttle to it and then locate a high resource like always. it may seem like a waste of time and effort using the droids, but it takes about 5 minutes to launch 30 droids which covers Mineral/Chemical/Gas on 10 planets for a designated time instead of spending an hour shuttling to each planet to discover it. Which beats missing shuttles, flying to Endor, Dathomir and Yavin just to just to discover that the resource isn't there.
So they are useful, from a certain point of View.
And yes, I too would love it if they came back with stats and the best place to look. But that's not going to happen.
Look at it this way, you need a named resource for X (I'm thinking Master WS, AS, DE's here...) you step out of your house, launch 10 survey droids, with 10 Mineral Survey devices, rinse and repeat with chemical and gas if need be. Wait however long, up to 30 minutes, during this time you Craft, do combat socialize. So you have fun and save creds, At the alloted time, you have a complete list of everything on all planets, didn't cost you jack to shuttle to each planet to discover it. And you did other fun stuff at the same time.
Once you have your lists, you select a planet, shuttle to it and then locate a high resource like always. it may seem like a waste of time and effort using the droids, but it takes about 5 minutes to launch 30 droids which covers Mineral/Chemical/Gas on 10 planets for a designated time instead of spending an hour shuttling to each planet to discover it. Which beats missing shuttles, flying to Endor, Dathomir and Yavin just to just to discover that the resource isn't there.
So they are useful, from a certain point of View.
And yes, I too would love it if they came back with stats and the best place to look. But that's not going to happen.
erli
Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:56 am
#6
They are great for checking on various planet specific or named resources. They are also really good at telling when a shift occurs, allowing you to place harvesters everywhere without having to spend all the airfare to keep checking if the resource shifted out yet. I would actually like to see a version that hunted out the various creature harvestables and reported them as well.
I think it would be great if the machine actually took little samples and reported the stats as well as the type. Having them (or a different droid) that hunted concentrations would be useful, but seems very unlikely as it takes away from the value of the survey skill.
I find the structure maintenance droid module far more useless than the survey droids, why have a droid that only does half the job??? If the droid has a storage compartment filled with power let the maintenance module droid deposit power as well. Maybe even make a droid or module that is capable of retrieving whats in hoppers of harvesters or factories, gasp!!
No, Im not a DE.
Master Artisan/Architect/Rifles
-erli
ravingbantha
Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:02 pm
#7
I'm not a Droid hater, heck I'm a droid engineer... I've used these several times, and the 30-45 mins it takes to get these back, plus the cost to buy them and provide the survey tools (which you don't get back)as well, is far more than flying to a planet, pop open a survey tool and see if the resource is even on the planet. I found them very dissapointing and not even worth the time to use. I have 3 crates of them sitting in storage and when the time comes I'll probably just destroy them to make room for what I need to keep.
Angelshadowx
Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:31 pm
#8
I'm not a Droid hater, heck I'm a droid engineer... I've used these several times, and the 30-45 mins it takes to get these back, plus the cost to buy them and provide the survey tools (which you don't get back) as well, is far more than flying to a planet, pop open a survey tool and see if the resource is even on the planet. I found them very dissapointing and not even worth the time to use. I have 3 crates of them sitting in storage and when the time comes I'll probably just destroy them to make room for what I need to keep.
I was joking about the droid hater. I wouldn't have thought it that big a deal thing to crank out factory runs of survey devices. And what you can sepnd about 5 minutes making 3-5 sets of 10 survey droids.
Anyway, to each there own.
ravingbantha
Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:08 pm
#9
na I was refering to the time before DE when i bought them, they were a complete waist of money, and now as a DE I haven't had a single request for them. Yeah it's great knowing what resources are spawned on what planet's., but they just don't give you enough info. Mabey it's the lazy architect in me that dosen't have to hunt for specific resurces, buy hey that my 2 rebuplic dactarians
demosthenes810
Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:48 am
#10
Heh...www.swgcraft.com...makes these droids entirely useless.
Cafa
Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:00 am
#11
I survey all the planets in the galaxy once a day, so they are rarely useful to me.
Having said that, when you are busy with an activity and you want to know WHAT is new to plan your gaming session it's nice to fire off the droids at login and see if something obviously rare has spawned.
Fivo Asia
Having said that, when you are busy with an activity and you want to know WHAT is new to plan your gaming session it's nice to fire off the droids at login and see if something obviously rare has spawned.
Fivo Asia
erli
Wed Aug 25, 2004 6:17 pm
#12
Heh...www.swgcraft.com...makes these droids entirely useless.
These droids have made the info you get from swgcraft.com imminently easier to acquire for those who actually take the time to record the stats for all the crafters out there to use and enjoy.
Lets take an AS example. As a wookiee non-AS I have been keeping tabs on all the resources for the new armors and translating them to swgcraft.com so that the AS on intrepid have a slightly easier time knowing whats available where. Its a whole lot easier to send a flora survey to Yavin, Endor, and Dathomir while I shuttle off to Dantooine to check animal resources. If the resources have shifted since I last recorded them then I'll fly out to that planet and get samples for the stats. If any of them are remarkable stats I then send an email to a few of the Kashyyykian only AS I know letting them know something nice spawned on X planet. Then when I log I hop on swgcraft.com and enter the resources for all the others to use the info as they see fit. Survey droids DO make this task easier. If they drew statted samples they would be even more useful, but oh well, they don't.
As a side note, I can tell you from personal experience that if you are waiting for resources to pop on swgcraft before mining, then your window of gettting that resource is quite frequently shortened. Few are religious in their devotion to posting stuff there as it spawns, and to those few I am quite thankful. Nothing substitutes firsthand knowledge of resource spawns as far as pulling the most and getting good concentrations before the miners move in and claim all the high concentration spots available.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it isn't useful.
-erli
Sammeria
Wed Sep 01, 2004 3:23 pm
#13
erli wrote:
Heh...www.swgcraft.com...makes these droids entirely useless.
These droids have made the info you get from swgcraft.com imminently easier to acquire for those who actually take the time to record the stats for all the crafters out there to use and enjoy.
Lets take an AS example. As a wookiee non-AS I have been keeping tabs on all the resources for the new armors and translating them to swgcraft.com so that the AS on intrepid have a slightly easier time knowing whats available where. Its a whole lot easier to send a flora survey to Yavin, Endor, and Dathomir while I shuttle off to Dantooine to check animal resources. If the resources have shifted since I last recorded them then I'll fly out to that planet and get samples for the stats. If any of them are remarkable stats I then send an email to a few of the Kashyyykian only AS I know letting them know something nice spawned on X planet. Then when I log I hop on swgcraft.com and enter the resources for all the others to use the info as they see fit. Survey droids DO make this task easier. If they drew statted samples they would be even more useful, but oh well, they don't.
As a side note, I can tell you from personal experience that if you are waiting for resources to pop on swgcraft before mining, then your window of gettting that resource is quite frequently shortened. Few are religious in their devotion to posting stuff there as it spawns, and to those few I am quite thankful. Nothing substitutes firsthand knowledge of resource spawns as far as pulling the most and getting good concentrations before the miners move in and claim all the high concentration spots available.
Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it isn't useful.
-erli
There is even a way to parse the infomation from the email and directly load it up into SWGCraft.com. With SWGcraft keeping the name of the resource with the stats, You can upload 1 planet's resources list in under 15 mins. Yes, swgcraft. doesnt allways have the stats of the resources but it slims down the list of stuff to get the stats on.
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