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Badrunner

Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:25 am

I dont get a lot of time to play swg, maybe 2 hours twice a week at best, with a big chunk on the weekend sometimes. Ive been trying to harvest my own resources using 4 medium harvestors i have. One is on an 80% copper spot and is doing fine. The other 3 i want for steel, however im lucky if i get them up to 10k before the resources "move". I dont have time to keep moving these every 3 days, its just not practical for me. What do other players do to deal with this? Are the particular types of steel on certain planets that dont shift?

Ive been trying to mine on dantooine in the vicintiy of my home town, and im just finding it really difficult, i dont notice when the harvestors stop without going to check them. Ive only managed to get about 60k steel in 2 weeks

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Visionaire1

Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:07 am

#2

I am also a casual player and had the same frustrations. I am just comming back to the game, but I dont think this has changed. All resources shift every 7-12 days. Since you have limited time the key is to get your harvestors down when the resource first spawns. The easiest way to do this is use swgcraft.com, and under resources their is a section called current resources which allows you to filter by galaxy, by planet. If it were me I wouldnt worry too much about what planet it is on, but would look for the metal I wanted ie. Iron, and wait for the resource to show up and it will say "posted 1 day ago", or "16 hours ago", then I would shuttle to that planet and put my harvestors down, and make sure they have enough credits and power to run for 14 days. Anything posted more than 3 days ago I wouldnt mine, as you have to change the your havestor locations too often. After placing your harvestors continue to watch swgcraft.com until the resource goes off the current spawn list, then go pick up your harvestors. This has worked well for me and saves a lot of time. Hope this helps.

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JeCy

Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:26 am

#3

mining is not for the causual player.. find a good resource dealer/miner or big time crafter to help you out.. I know id be happy to help out a little guy that wants to make a few things here and there. Your not gonna hurt my bussiness and i might make some new freinds in the process.

Your lots are gold.. make a deal with a good resource broker or crafter to let them use your lots in exchange for some resources. Weapon smiths and armorers are the main ones i would try.

Good luck and let me know how it turns out

Je'Cy

Kinshi

Thu Jun 16, 2005 7:10 pm

#4

Heres is what I did (my schedule is nearly the same as yours)

Since you are lacking in time, chasing the resources isnt really a good thing to do, so my soultion has been to just plop my harvs down and never move them (a static farm)

I have a single medium house I keep in the city where I live, all the rest of the lots are used for harvesters, and none of them are smaller than a BER13.(the highest effciency extractors)

Since I am a SW, I bought mostly mineral harvs with a single petro harvester and a fusion generator (I have that on a freinds lot)

I also use my Yacht to store items (most of my crafting is done on the yacht) Also if you become a Master Pilot you can buy a multiplayer ship and use it for extra storage too (no lot usage now)

I also have merchant skills so I am using vendors and the stock room to store RE'ed parts, I use MSE droids with storage compartments for stacks of resources, wear a backpack and utilize the bank.

ALso invest in maintenance droids, its a huge timesaver to have them add maintenance to the harvs, also to use your time the best, make sure and put enough power in the harvs so they will last at least a week before needing more, you dont want to be visiting them every day. Then when you go to feed them power, you can collect your resources. The droid can handle maintenance when you dont feel like checking the harvs yourself.

Make friends with someone who likes to survey and buy some extra harvesters for him to put down for you, let the folks who have time to chase resources do the chasing. The resources you get from this method will be worth far more than the harvs and the surveyor will be happy to have the harvesters.

darkmane

Fri Jun 17, 2005 1:02 am

#5

If your trying to do this go for the "JTL" resources, they always spawn for like 2 weeks vs the 1 week for regular resources:

Hardened Arveshium Steel
Crystallized Bicorbantium Steel
Conductive Borcarbitic Copper
Gravitonic Fiberplast
Fermionic Siliclastic Ore

THose are the ones I remember, there is a reactive gas I think. Anyway they stay in place longer.

Badrunner

Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:18 am

#6

Thanks everyone, there are some good tips in there. Ill see what sort of strategy i can develop and let you all know how it goes.

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Pawlin

Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:36 pm

#7

Badrunner wrote:
...using 4 medium harvestors i have....

The other 3 i want for steel, however im lucky if i get them up to 10k before the resources "move". I dont have time to keep moving these every 3 days, its just not practical for me. ...

What is the extraction rate on your harvesters? You might have low BER harvesters from the sounds of those numbers.

The max BER on a medium is BER10. If you find a density around 70% then that should pull 10k per day from a single harvester.

If you are using lower than BER 10 then I'd recommend an upgrade to your harvesters if you can afford it.

I think mediums can get as low as BER 3-4 and if you happen to have some of those, delete them and buy some personal BER4's and you'll save half the maintenance and power costs.

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Orew

Sat Jun 18, 2005 1:51 am

#8

Use static extractors and mine the most abundant resource you can find below them. Sell it at 2 cpu and with the money try to buy the resources you really need.

You may want BER 13 extractors though.

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