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taloncard

Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:21 am

After wasteing 2 hours surveying for a new uber spawn of a rare resource I was ready to kill.

I had found 3 different 90+% Concs and had 1 of the 3 problems:

When I went to build I got a "you cannot build here" message

There was no place to build due to a Yellow no building zone

There was no place to build because of unknown terrain problems.

I can think of few activites more tedious then surveying for a good conc and fewer more annoying then reaching your goal conc only to find out you cannot build within 200M of the high conc.

Is there some way you can have an indicator on the survey tool indicateing wheather you can build there, or if it can also show the Yellow zones in the display.

This way we know to stop wasteing our time surveying in that area.

Not being able to build in cities or within the boarders of them are understandable but when you are in the middle of nowhere it gets really frustrateing.

/rant off

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Corpusblight

Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:43 pm

#2

Very Annoying!!!!

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LadyGrey

Fri Sep 03, 2004 11:18 pm

#3

Or, if you are on Naboo, you are within the no-build zone from Keren, which extends out several 1000's of yards from that city. One of the many bugs left over from pre-release that have not been fixed.

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sciguyCO

Sat Sep 04, 2004 12:22 am

#4

9 times out of 10, the yellow no-build zone is due to a spawned lair within 100-200m (I'm not sure of the exact range). If you blow up the lair, the yellow goes away. Of course, that is assuming that you have the combat skills necessary to handle whatever the spawn is.

The other two issues are still annoying, though.

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SkinnerOne

Sat Sep 04, 2004 7:25 am

#5

taloncard wrote:

After wasteing 2 hours surveying for a new uber spawn of a rare resource I was ready to kill.

I had found 3 different 90+% Concs and had 1 of the 3 problems:

When I went to build I got a "you cannot build here" message

There was no place to build due to a Yellow no building zone

There was no place to build because of unknown terrain problems.

I can think of few activites more tedious then surveying for a good conc and fewer more annoying then reaching your goal conc only to find out you cannot build within 200M of the high conc.

Is there some way you can have an indicator on the survey tool indicateing wheather you can build there, or if it can also show the Yellow zones in the display.

This way we know to stop wasteing our time surveying in that area.

Not being able to build in cities or within the boarders of them are understandable but when you are in the middle of nowhere it gets really frustrateing.

/rant off

I have to agree with you on points 2 and 3 and add one of my own. But first to address this "Unknown Terrain" problem. Personally I find it absolutly ludicrous to think that a society that has found the technological solutions to interplanetary travel could NOT find a way to place a harvester on uneven terrain!

Apparently the Developers HAVE however found a way to place NPC Bases on that same unever terrain! Simply amazing isn't it? Kinda makes one shake one's head and consider just what the Developers REALLY ARE trying to accomplish doesn't it?

OK Now for my real tip here for all you surveyors. I have discovered the fastest way to find the highest concentrations of ANY resource that you can harvest.

Simply move to a point so rugged, remote and steep that you could NEVER hope to find a spot to plop your harvester and THERE you will find the highest concentrations possible for that spawn. That or head out int othe swamps! THe concentrations are ALWAYS highest there too!

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taloncard

Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:42 am

#6

lol reminds me of the time i found a 98% conc of Dolovite iron (the best spawn on my server)

there was just 1 problem it was just outside coronet cantina!

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Alghen

Sat Sep 04, 2004 3:04 pm

#7

SkinnerOne wrote:

Simply move to a point so rugged, remote and steep that you could NEVER hope to find a spot to plop your harvester and THERE you will find the highest concentrations possible for that spawn. That or head out int othe swamps! THe concentrations are ALWAYS highest there too!

Sometimes I wonder if the devs implemented this on purpose, because there will always be a good spot out in the mountains somwhere.

Tirgwystraff

Mon Sep 06, 2004 4:51 am

#8

You can also look in the planets *sweet spots*. If you constantly survey naboo, you'll find almost all resources have a high concentration ( 70 or better) sw of kadaara. I tend to get my ore concentrations out of theed.

For corellia, the spot is harder to explain. Most servers have a city near there. On Chimaera it's Bellerofonte, and Oldavern. Oldavern is on the coast to the east side of the map, northern area. Bellerofonte is near the mountain, slightly inland, on the southern shore.

On tatooine, I tend to place on the plains, simply because I don't have as many build problems there. You have a large plains north of anchorhead. The plains I tend to use is near Kauri's player city of Mos Veros. ( I play on 5 different servers). Mos Veros is 2k from Bestine, about 1k from Jabba's , and about 1k from Wayfar. The plains area is between it and Bestine. ( Basically SW of Bestine). I rarely have to leave those plains to find a conc of anything.

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Sohile

Fri Sep 10, 2004 11:20 am

#9

SkinnerOne wrote:

...Personally I find it absolutly ludicrous to think that a society that has found the technological solutions to interplanetary travel could NOT find a way to place a harvester on uneven terrain! ...

lol.

thanks for my laugh today.

KaardeShaarke

Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:25 pm

#10

SkinnerOne wrote:

Personally I find it absolutly ludicrous to think that a society that has found the technological solutions to interplanetary travel could NOT find a way to place a harvester on uneven terrain!

Also, don't forget that even a Novice Scout has the undocumented "Terraform" ability that allows them to place a simple pup tent on ANY piece of ground. It'll auto-magically create a perfectly flat spot for itself.

This, incidentally, is kind of fun to do at the peaks of really tall mountains on Dathomir

Elyssa

Mon Sep 13, 2004 4:21 pm

#11

KaardeShaarke wrote:

This, incidentally, is kind of fun to do at the peaks of really tall mountains on Dathomir

Personally, I like to set them up right at the edge of a river and watch my campfire burn underwater.

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