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Survey experience only comes from successful sampling; so surveying alone doesn't help enough. As you have probably discovered, most sampling attempts are not successful. It is a slow process. To increase the odds of successful sampling with each attempt, try to find a high (over 90 %) concentration of something (just not radioactives! Sampling radioactives causes wounds). Some of the chemicals/polymerscanreach higher concentrations than most minerals, that might helpyou find a resource over 90%.Look for such a concentration in a town, like the big open area of flatpavement inside theed just outside the theed starportentrance (no wild critter attacks to worry about). Ohter posts may give guidance on macros you can use, I just don't know enough to help you there. I ground it out the hard way. Doh! (If you don't know about it, check out the swgcraft.com site, look under the forums and stickies in the general crafting forum. This site is a goldmine of information.)

Create a macro.
Call it "resample"

In the body of the macro put the following:

/sample;
/pause 30;
/m resample;


What this does is causes you toon to sample every 30 seconds. Even if you move (which cancels the sampling). I'll begin resampling after the 30 seconds.

You'll have to already have a resouce set in your surveying tool.
To stop it just type /dump.
Anything over 30% concentration is decent enough to sample with. You don't get more XP by sampling higher concentrations. (although you do get more material)

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Slysix wrote:
Create a macro.
Call it "resample"

In the body of the macro put the following:

/sample;
/pause 30;
/m resample;


What this does is causes you toon to sample every 30 seconds. Even if you move (which cancels the sampling). I'll begin resampling after the 30 seconds.

You'll have to already have a resouce set in your surveying tool.
To stop it just type /dump.
Anything over 30% concentration is decent enough to sample with. You don't get more XP by sampling higher concentrations. (although you do get more material)

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BioEngine wrote:

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Slysix wrote:
Create a macro.
Call it "resample"

In the body of the macro put the following:

/sample;
/pause 30;
/m resample;


What this does is causes you toon to sample every 30 seconds. Even if you move (which cancels the sampling). I'll begin resampling after the 30 seconds.

You'll have to already have a resouce set in your surveying tool.
To stop it just type /dump.
Anything over 30% concentration is decent enough to sample with. You don't get more XP by sampling higher concentrations. (although you do get more material)

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However, does that macro include the occasional system message stating that you have found a large concentration? I cannot think of a way to remove that box without being atk.

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Make the Macro as follows to eliminate the popup box:

• /sample;


• /pause 30;


• /ui action defaultButton;


• /macro resample;

That will exit the popup box, and keep you sampling. If you're going to do it for extended periods, in order to make the game think you're still there, put in a /wink;

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Saggis wrote:

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BioEngine wrote:

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Slysix wrote:
Create a macro.
Call it "resample"

In the body of the macro put the following:

/sample;
/pause 30;
/m resample;


What this does is causes you toon to sample every 30 seconds. Even if you move (which cancels the sampling). I'll begin resampling after the 30 seconds.

You'll have to already have a resouce set in your surveying tool.
To stop it just type /dump.
Anything over 30% concentration is decent enough to sample with. You don't get more XP by sampling higher concentrations. (although you do get more material)

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However, does that macro include the occasional system message stating that you have found a large concentration? I cannot think of a way to remove that box without being atk.

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Make the Macro as follows to eliminate the popup box:

• /sample;


• /pause 30;


• /ui action defaultButton;


• /macro resample;

That will exit the popup box, and keep you sampling. If you're going to do it for extended periods, in order to make the game think you're still there, put in a /wink;

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I used teh above macro (of course I was at my keyboard the whole time) and I can say that it works great. I however changed the pause to 15 seconds and havn't seen any adverse effects. Thanks for whomever posted that macro in the FAQ!!!!!

instead of putting something like "/wink" in your macro to keep it from kicking you out, I like putting "/mood none" in there. It still keeps you from getting kicked out, but doesn't add spatial spam to anyone nearby...

but how do u make the macro go off when im afk

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BountyHuntin101 wrote:
but how do u make the macro go off when im afk

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Lol - you've asked this same question in at least 3 forums, plus private messages. What exactly are you trying to do? Stop the macro from running whenever you leave the computer? Make it start working when you're afk? Make it stop working when you're afk? Stop the game from kicking you out when you're afk?

Few more details please.