Artisan Archive
Thread: Purpose of Survey Droids
)? Has anyone come across a detailed resource database online so that anyone wanting to know which minerals are worth going after can get their stats from the name?Thanks a bunch,
Thryss
Goodnight Peak, Rori, Chilastra
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http://www.swgcraft.com
Search the forums, somewhere he has a list of all materials ever spawned on all servers (as much as was recorded on his site anyways). It's brilliant, one of the best fan sites I have ever seen in any game.
swgcraft also has a great resource program that you can download. It's connects to their website and downloads all the resources that are currently identified on each planet. It gives you stats, names, how long it's been spawning, etc. You can also sort all the information and filter out what you don't want. Kick @ss
Sorlo
FlatLine13 wrote:
yes, you can go to a web site that relies on players to sent in recource info. But dont start whining when I get a full day of mineing in on that ultra-high stated recource that didnt hit your "recerch" site till 4pm, and is a single day spawn.
ok, so you are going to spend 1k per planet per day to see what may be out there? That is 9k a day to see what MIGHT have changed!! I for one will stick with SWGcraft and if I only get a few hours out of the spawn, so be it. I can tell you it won't be the last time that has happened.
And as far as the updates are concerned I don't notice any delay, if anything it is about 30 mins at the most. And I CAN tell you he stats of the Ultra-High resource where as you have to go out there and sample it yourself and see if you really want 100k of the Dolovite Iron with the OQ=10.
FlatLine13 wrote:
yes, you can go to a web site that relies on players to sent in recource info. But dont start whining when I get a full day of mineing in on that ultra-high stated recource that didnt hit your "recerch" site till 4pm, and is a single day spawn.
You would have to send out droids to all the planets every day at server reset in order to do this. And if you are that diligent, you would have out mined everyone else anyway.
The truth is that these droids are for people who don't know or don't care about sites like swgcraft.com, and aren't guilded and don'thave a good resource network. Name competitive crafters who meet these conditions.
But that is the cynic in me talking. Maybe a few people find these droids useful. Good for the DE's who bother to stick out the profession.
Well, I've thought up a couple uses for them myself. As a chef, I'm usually looking for good flora, which (except for Dant berries and Lok wheat) has a longer update lag time on swgcraft, since fewer people gather that data, especially on non-core planets. If I do find some good stuff on an adventure planet like Endor or Yavin and place a harvester, I can use a survey droid every couple of days to make sure the resource hasn't shifted out without paying the shuttle to actually go the planet.
My ideal design, though, would have been to have the droid's report be more detailed if you have more survey skills. A full report with all stats at Master Artisan, maybe the highest one or two numbers at survey IV, and a "Low/Medium/High quality" judgement based on the stat's average at survey II.
Well, I've thought up a couple uses for them myself. As a chef, I'm usually looking for good flora, which (except for Dant berries and Lok wheat) has a longer update lag time on swgcraft, since fewer people gather that data, especially on non-core planets. If I do find some good stuff on an adventure planet like Endor or Yavin and place a harvester, I can use a survey droid every couple of days to make sure the resource hasn't shifted out without paying the shuttle to actually go the planet.
My ideal design, though, would have been to have the droid's report be more detailed if you have more survey skills. A full report with all stats at Master Artisan, maybe the highest one or two numbers at survey IV, and a "Low/Medium/High quality" judgement based on the stat's average at survey II.
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Exactly. I do agree with haveing a master artisn get more detaled info. I just dont see it hapening.
Another thing I forgot to mention on my last pst is you know all the artisans can get in to the act with the survey droids too. start doing factory runs of sruvey tools to seel to the people that dont want to take the time to make the things them selves.
shift outs would seem more of a deal for me. Remember not only do you have the trip out to the planet to see if your resources are still there but you have the trip back as well.
With the survey droid you log on, walk out to your porch (if you log off in your house). Send out your droids to check your off planet harvesters. Answer your emails, do a factory run whatever. Half an hour or so later you have whats there.
Also work great in looking for named resources. I know with DE most of the time the stats on the named stuff is not as important as just the name, knowing that Ditanium Steel or Lidium extrusive ore just popped on Dantooine is pretty important.
The problem with this, is if you are tracking stuff with multiple tools. I currently track mineral, chemical, gas, flora and water. On average there is something to new to sample on every planet every day when you track so many resources.
As for swgcraft, that site is *WAY* to innaccurate for me!