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Thread: Many fixes and improvements to shellfish harvesting
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Arez_Olympus
Fri Mar 19, 2004 7:18 am
#1
"Many fixes and improvements to shellfish harvesting"
This was in the patch notes for publish 7. Has anyone tried shellfish harvesting after the patch?
Is it worth it? Cause it would be an easy way to get free meat.
Lyekka
Fri Mar 19, 2004 8:33 am
#2
Yes, I had been harvesting Mollusks for several days before the publish, because there were some high quality ones and I needed them for a tissue. It is a slow process. You only get 2-5 with each pull. You do not get to choose Mollusks or Crustaceans, so you get about 60% Mollusks and about 40% Crustaceans. Even running a macro, I was only able to pull about 500 Mollusks per hour, You can only go AFK for a few minutes, as they do not auto stack and your inventory will fill up fast.
So I was excited to read that the process was being improved! I tried it again after the publish, only to find that is was exactly the same! I could not see anything different about it at all!
Unless they make it a lot faster, I would not recommend it for getting meat. I couldn't even get a decent stack to make tissue after working on it for several hours.
If anyone is on Tarquinas and wants to try it out, I have some harvesters on my vendor, very reasonably priced. 
fubar2150
Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:53 am
#3
Anyone on Ahazi with a shellfish harvestor or two for sale?
plz /tell svopo
Svopo
Dystine, Tatooine
2748, 19
Arez_Olympus
Fri Mar 19, 2004 11:22 am
#4
"Many fixes and improvements to shellfish harvesting"
This was in the patch notes for publish 7. Has anyone tried shellfish harvesting after the patch?
I just did and did not see any difference.
RandoD
Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:03 pm
#5
I did this last night for a while via a macro (again, can't leave too long as you have to manually stack it) and the only difference that I THINK I noticed was that I didn't fail very often. Most searches resulted in a find, though those finds were very often less than 5 units. A danger free way to gather "Creature Food" but not nearly the same volume you can obtain from Milking.
But making Cover tissues is now possible anyway.
duci
Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:12 pm
#6
Nothing has changed. I have to say its gotten worse. I usually do the harvesting with fishing. But it looks like fishing has been ninja nerfed. Each fish only provides around 6 fishmeat per fish post publish.
DialUp
Fri Mar 19, 2004 12:53 pm
#7
I do ALOT of shellfish harvesting and it is 100% the same. I get 100% the same results as I did before the publish. BTW - I never heard about any change to it...
Arez_Olympus
Tue Mar 23, 2004 3:09 am
#8
Bump: Maybe it is not that important to anyone else, but there are 2 things that concern me:
1) This was in the patchnotes, and apparently it was not introduced in the game. I have searched and asked around for it, but there is nothing to be found on it. This concerns me!
2) Shellfish harvesting is a nice way for lower level players or non-combatants to get creature food. Also a lot of the time shellfish is the best meat on the server, allowing the production of better components. It can even be done while fishing!
1) This was in the patchnotes, and apparently it was not introduced in the game. I have searched and asked around for it, but there is nothing to be found on it. This concerns me!
2) Shellfish harvesting is a nice way for lower level players or non-combatants to get creature food. Also a lot of the time shellfish is the best meat on the server, allowing the production of better components. It can even be done while fishing!
fugazzz
Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:40 am
#9
yeah, i just did it yesterday for a bit
I noticed nothing different...the amount harvested and the frequency of harvester were exactly the same crappy way they were pre-publish 7.
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