Artisan Archive
Thread: Suggestion, new harvester skill for Master Artisan
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Stormkraken
Fri Jan 16, 2004 6:54 pm
#1
I am not sure if this idea has been mentioned before.
This skill is intendedfor Master Artisan. The objective of the skill is to easily "monitor" your harvesters without having to stand right next to it.
Possible Benefitial Skill Features
- Display type of harvester and their locations
- Display if the harvester is currently On or Off
- Display Harvester Status (Maintainence/Power Reserve Level)
- Operate Harvester remotely, butwithout hopper access
- Effective monitoring range maybe limited to harvester on the local planet
Possible ways to access this skill and respective money-sinks
- A "monitoring" structure, with your standard maintainence fee and lot requirements.
- A function of the bank/bazaar public terminal, and you must pay to access the information. Can be source of additional city income.
- Access from your UI, datapad, droid, furniture, ortool.However, you must enable this monitoring feature (call it Up-link) on your harvester when you plant it. Harvester with this feature enabled may require higher maintainence fee. This feature can be made availableto all harvesters, orcan be restrictedto new type of harvester schemetics. Harvesters withthis feature may have lower BER than harvesters without this feature.
Overall Goal: To reward mastering artisan. To differentiate the casualsurveyer from the professional surveyer.
charvakas
Fri Jan 16, 2004 8:48 pm
#2
quite some time ago (way back in the summer) they were talking about a web interface to manage your harvesters. it never happened. this will probably never happen either, to spite being a very good idea.
Lilcappy
Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:35 am
#3
The reason the devs will not put this in is because harvesters are only "loaded" when someone is standing next to them. So the game has no way of telling exactly where your harvesters are, unless you are close to them. If the devs did this, they would need to load harvesters 100% of the time, causeing a big strain on the servers.
scoutmasterDiamond
Fri Feb 06, 2004 5:00 am
#4
good idea. i think it would be usefull.
even a portable device harvester managment tool or something. that connects, and then shows you all your harvesters/generators and you can top them up with maintainance or change resources.
not power and not hopper acess.
i think it would work.
as for separating casual from proffesional surveyers, can non artizans use survey devices? if they cant, do they do around planting the extractors next to others to see what is there?
if thats the case it must end up costing alot and being a bit inefficient. as as soon as it is places it will need another load of cash to re-deed.
Stormkraken
Fri Feb 06, 2004 1:58 pm
#5
Maybe only load the harvester when you are accessing this management tool? Then the harvesters are not tracked 24/7 by the server.
Altuslumen
Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:41 pm
#6
I think there ought to be droids that go to your havesters for you add power, maintenance & empty the hopper.
Zalan
Fri Feb 13, 2004 1:12 am
#7
If you want to make it more interesting, make this ability a reward of a quest.
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