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I personally, do not want to keep track of the 5 day resource rotation. I would rather pay someone else to do it for me. And while they are at it, I will even pay them to survey for me resources. It would be worth it to me and put a smile on my face. This is what I posted in the Scout forum in hopes that one of them will take up the challenge;

"One of you came into the Artisan forum to let us know what you need in the form of resources in order to make your traps. I wanted to propose something that for the right minded Scout could turn into quite a lucrative business.

I am looking to hire a Scout who could survey specific resources that I need at their highest concentration. I also need this Scout to keep track of 5 day resource rotations so that I don't have to. I could feel free to set my Harvesters at the locations given to me by the Scout and fill them up for five days and not worry that the resources would dry up after one or two days. The Scout couldemail to me the Waypoints of the sought after resources as well as their 5 day rotations which they would keep track of through the Surveying Devices. I would be willing to start off with 4 different types of resources such as Aluminum, Steel, Copper and Iron. I would also be willing to pay 10k weekly for this service. If I changed from a resource say, from Copper to a Fiberplast I would pay a one time fee of 2k. If I wanted to add another one to the list I would pay 2.5k more weekly for it.

Now 10k weekly to some of you may not seem like alot, but if one of you were willing to do it and promoted the service I have a feeling that you would have quite a few 10k weeklycustomers. Many of the resource information that you had gathered once might pay off to many more than just one of your customers I am sure.

This is my idea anyway. I hope one of you will consider it. It would handle alot of the complaints and misery many in the Artisan crowd are feeling and expressing about the rotation of resources on a weekly basis. You could bring smiles to the faces of an entire profession and many credits into your pockets."

This really would solve all of my resource problems and would be well worth the money paid out weekly. It would also help me to move up my skill trees quicker as I would not have to spend time surveying and moving Harvesters around from unexpected depleted resource veins all of the time. It might be a solution for some of you as well.

Sounds like an awesome idea, even though I'm not sure at this point I could come up with 10K a week, maybe they'd take some of their trap resources as trade, everyone's happy. I'd even set up a harvester for one of them and give administrator's rights...it's a great idea you have, hopefully some of them will bite!

You may be onto something here.....I noticed there was a field on the bazzar labeled "data", perhaps that could be used as a means to securly transfer the data/payment (haven't ever clicked on the data option and had anything show up though....). Just a though. Once again, this is a great idea.....may need some tweeks but nice job :-)

-Snova Eclipse Galaxy

Gearless I think that if a Scout showed him/herself to be trustworthy and didn't hesitate togive you a reference (not their entire customer list of course), a customer who would vouch for them then I think the "/tip (name of Scout) 10,000" every Friday probably would work out just fine.The Resource Reports could end up coming once or twice a week depending on the beginning day of the 5 day rotation. And to be even more valuable to their customers they could recommend various types of the resource you wanted based on the stats of resource. The more helpful they would be to their customers, the more loyal their customers would be with them. I say this because if this turns out to be a viable occupation others will want to compete with the orginal Resource Scouts and possibly undercut them. I would not leave myResource Scout to pay a few less credits to another one, ifI had a really good repoire with them.