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I know, I know...this topic has been discuss many times before...

But, what is the only location you could find with a good percentage of resources is location within the city no build zone...you would have to do AFK Sampling......no?

What's the big deal with going out of town? I have my house and harvesters to the Northwest of Kor Vella--arguably one of the farthest no-build zones. And I am able to run back and forth every day, and as long as I pay attention and avoid the reds, I have no problems. You can power your harvesters up for 2 days, spend 1/2 hour every other day collecting goods and you'll wonder why you never did it before. If you're placing harvesters 10,000 m outside of town, well that's your choice but you don't have to go that far unless you're looking for something REALLY rare. As for the concentrations, I have found a 96% vein of great steel, just about 2 minutes run outside Kor Vella, and last resource shift there were a couple 93% chemical veins just outside the Coronet no-build zone, so if you think in-town are the only good resources you haven't looked very hard. I didn't even spend that much time to find these rich veins, you can do it easily also. I would encourage anyone who's afraid of making the leap to buy 1 harvester and a couple days worth of power and try it out.

Remember, sampling doesn't have to be AFK. I have a good vein within a city on Naboo. I start sampling, then I bring out my crafting droid and craft. I'm very much at my keyboard, but I'm sampling in the background while I craft.

No, not at all. There are always other spots for the resource. Plus, you don't have to go AFK while you are sampling.

If your question is "Can I build a harvester in town?" then the answer is "no". Your only other options are to find the resource elsewhere (each planet is a big place and I assure you that it is somewhere besides in town) or get it through trade. Most resources go for 3-5 creds per unit so even just a couple of destroy missions would give you enough creds to buy 500 typically.

First off, I do NOT believe that the ONLY source of a good resource would be within no build areas. There are multiple instances of a resource all over a planet. Look around a little, got to a different town, whatever.

Secondly, I have found on multiple occasions that the best concentrations of a resource are usually way out in the wilderness. Usually uncomfortably near hostile mobs. I'm talking the 90% kind of concentrations that artisans drool over.

I wouldn't use concentrations as an excuse to AFK sample. If you can't find a concentration out of a no-build zone, then you aren't going far enough. Admittedly, some cities seem to have no-build zones that are way too huge. Like that center-ish city on corellia has a no-build zone that reaches at least 2500m to the west. reasonable in the other directions, but to the west, don't even bother.

AFK sampling is cheezing the system. Simple as that.

What is AFK sampling? I haven't heard of that before.

True...resources are available throughout the planet. Just have to find another location.

The choices are:

1) Do Sampling within the no build zone from town (within 1000m - 1500m) and able to go back to town quick enough

2) travel a large distance, in some cases over 10,000m from the nears town to place a harvester, but also suffer the chance of no wind / solar so you have to buy it to power them or run that far to power it.

yes you could buy it from bazaar for 3-5 Cr..thats a lot of mission to do