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Thread: New survey droids questions
How do they work? do they survey all planets? one planet? or just a limited range? what do they show pls give all info that you have on them?
Machiavelli
The info you get would be if you took a shuttle to a planet and opened the survey tool and look at the list. You get one shot and the droid takes your survey tool with it, so if you wanted to see mineral and chemical you would have to send out 2 droids. You don't get any stats or any WPs.
Not a bad droid, but very limited in its applications and it takes anywhere from 30mins to an hour to get the results back.
Message Edited by nefarious on 05-04-2004 12:53 PM
if you are after a particular resource, why goto each planet searching?
why not just send a few droids to ..
it is not designed to replace the surveying itself, just to aid you in your quest for resources..
Do the droids take up a droid slot on the datapad?
If not, then they would be a *huge* time-saver. Especially if you are the kind of person that does not think that being a couple hours (or days, in the case of yavin, endor, and dathomir) behind is acceptable. Using the droids is much cheaper than using the shuttle, and unless a particular planet is the only one with a particular resource, you can just drop a personal harvester on any planet that has the resource and wait a couple minutes to find out what the stats are.
Not everyone is into resource gathering. Personally, I am. I think of it as a scavenger hunt, and there is nothing like comming back on day two of a shift and finding a bunch of other harvesters clustered around mine, which are sittin on the 92% (not 91, not 89.... 92) dep of thebest class 4 LPCF (or whatever other specialized resource) to ever spawn on the server.
Another application of these droids is to check for shifts. Taking the shuttle to Dantooine just to find that the resource has not shifted yet is a big waste of my time. If i send a droid to do it it works out much better, then if the droid comes back an there has been a shift then its off i go.
Salporin_Wookie wrote:
they arelimited use (stupid idea) (no its a good one, trust me, as was said, it is not a substitute for your surveying efforts simply a tool to help you. Besides if it gave you a waypoint with the higher concentration youd still by whining that it doesnt drop a harvey for you) disposable droids (another stupid idea) (this is an even better idea that the limited use, it dont take up a slot in the datapad, and it keeps you coming back to me). sort of like the bounty hunter droids. You basically tell them a planet and send them off. In 30 minutes or so, you will get an e-mail telling you what resources are available on the planet you sent it to.
No. They're like the BH tracker droids: they sit in your inventory until you "use" them, a charge gets deducted, and 30-45m later you get your report. It never goes to your datapad (so you can use these even if you've hit the max number of droids trained). You can also buy them by the crate, I picked up a 5 droid crate, each one with 11 uses for 25k. I'm not sure if the crates always come out that size, or if the DE just split up a 25 crate.
Anubi wrote:
Do the droids take up a droid slot on the datapad?