Artisan Archive
Thread: Survey Droids
ClaudeB wrote:
I am close to Master DE but not there yet, 4/3/0/4 and was wondering myself how these survey droids work. Does it show you WHERE the resources are or just tell you that these resources were found on this planet?
Nope, only the same info as if you would open a survey tool on the target planet.
Only usefull thing to it is atm that it outputs this info as an e-mail that pages like SWGCraft can use to update their DB.
BusyStarWalker wrote:
Why wait for Survey Droid reports anyway? It can take like 20 to 40 min. Just use a SWG crafting site like: SWG Craft
EEK what resources you using to be that slow ? 
I sell my 8 use 19 mins survey droids (quality 90/91 i think)
But in some recent tests I got it down to 8 use 17min 12 sec's
Anyway as you say you can use a website but there not always bang upto date and infact I know of resources that have never made there way onto the websites. You can use JTL to planet hope pretty quickly or you can use a survey droid to help you if your busy.
Just my 2 cents
It would also bring some new business for Droid Engineers cause atm almost no one uses them?!
Absolutely! Without that ability they are almost useless. I can travel from planet to planet in my ship, and survey for everything in about the same time or less than the droids take.
Afew changes I would like to see with these:
- Show resources and quality stats
- Return planet map with overlay of resource concentrations (not exact waypoints, but regions where these resources can be found).
- Much like a BH Probe droid, let me program for what I am looking for, and let me know what planet I can find it on. For example, I want Steel with Conductivity > 750, droid go find that for me.
- Maybe something likethe ability to survey a planet for the richest concentration of 1 specific resource (maybe only usable my master artisans or Survey IV?)
Algar_of_Syngar wrote:
Absolutely! Without that ability they are almost useless. I can travel from planet to planet in my ship, and survey for everything in about the same time or less than the droids take.
Afew changes I would like to see with these:
- Show resources and quality stats
- Return planet map with overlay of resource concentrations (not exact waypoints, but regions where these resources can be found).
- Much like a BH Probe droid, let me program for what I am looking for, and let me know what planet I can find it on. For example, I want Steel with Conductivity > 750, droid go find that for me.
- Maybe something likethe ability to survey a planet for the richest concentration of 1 specific resource (maybe only usable my master artisans or Survey IV?)
Maybe these (and other) abilities can be build into a single droid, but you can only select one when you launch it.
So basically you mean you want to take all the work out of gathering resources? Um no. Survey droids are fine (and useful) the way they are in my opinion.
Gathering resources (especially good ones) is not supposed to be easy as pie. I use survey droids about every other day and find them very helpful as is.