Artisan Archive

My personal experience has shown that resources are found "way too easy" by the following:

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- People that are first to reach the highest concentration near starports
- People that are first to reach the highest concentration near shuttleports
- People that are only concerned with placing 2-3 harvesters at any location
- People that are never worried about finding 7-10 free spaces to plant harvesters at one location
- People that have static farms of 20+ harvesters that never move
- People that are perfectly happy placing a harvester on a 30% spawn

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I personally harvest specific resources that I personally require.
This means that to accumulate any decent amount, i am required to find 75% concentratrations
at a minimum, and hope they dont run dry in less than 7 days so i can get a single stack of
what i need off a BER 13 harvester.

Usually, this means that i am required to drive all over god-knows-what planet just to find
a resource spawn that isnt under a city, under a mountain, under water, under a volcano,
under a POI, under a Lair, or under some player's random shack in the middle of BFE.

To accomplish this, I have to perform the following:

- survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive North 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive East 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: 13% Concentration located on fringe of map to east
--- Make Temp Waypoint so you can come back if spawn is dud
- Run/Drive East 200m
- Stop
- Survey: 23% Concentration located on fringe of map to northeast
- Run/Drive NorthEast 200m
- Stop
- Survey: 46% Concentration located on fringe of map to east
- Run/Drive East 200m
- Stop
- Survey: 55% Concentration located on fringe of map to east
- Run/Drive East 200m
- Stop
- Survey: Small patch of four 55% concentrations at survey location.
--- Go back to Temp Waypoint and resume search
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
- Stop
- Survey: No Resource Located.
- Run/Drive South 500m
--- blah blah blah blah etc...

continuing this untill the entire planet grid is mapped out, or you find a free spot that is at least 75% to 95%.

I have NEVER found resources to be "too easy to find" unless i stick strictly to starport-areas where everyone else does.

For the Master Artisans like myself that start thier searches in BFE, finding resources is a real pain in the ass,
because you never know if you are passing up a fringe-location that sits right outside your measly 200m radar.