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Thread: How little Surveyor can you manage with?
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Eyam
Sun Feb 22, 2004 5:48 pm
#1
Hi, I've dropped all of artisan bar the surveying, & am now bumping Swordsman tocomplement my Master Doc. I'll have to re-sacrifice Scout (hoping to get a tedious ton or 10 of good meat first), but suspect I'll have to downgrade from Surveying IV as well.
How much of a bummer is this, how little Surveying do you all manage with?
Btw, I've seen some Surveying skill tapes (fairly cheap) I don't suppose they help with surveying range at all, or do they just help with sampling?
Iam.
Silvek
Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:17 pm
#2
I had Surveying 4 and went down to Surveying 1 and I can't understand how I ever managed with only Surveying 1. It's very nice to have the increased range that comes with the higher levels of surveying.
But there is no use in having Surveying 1, unless you are sampling a lot. You don't get any additional ranges until you reach Surveying 2.
Asteroids
Sun Feb 22, 2004 6:51 pm
#3
You don't know what you miss until you've had it. Anything less than survey 4, is a royal pain in the arse.
TyrShadowrunner
Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:17 am
#5
Seeing as how I never had surveying 4 my opinion my not be as valuable. Currently I only have 16 skillpts available for use. What I end up doing most of the time is training in artisan to survey my resources, plant all of my harvesters, and then give them enough power and maint to last at least a week. Then I go to the nearest scout trainer, drop artisan, train in scout and go out and harvest my meats. It is a lot of work and sometimes you get pissed cause youare trained as a scout, and the resources shift so you have to go run back to a trainer to get artisan. So basically I dont have survey 1 even just artisan. 64m tops on the survey. All I do is head survey once, get on my swoop then head in that direction for about 100m, get off swoop, survey, get on swoop head towards wp another 100m or so. I am sure someone could set a macro for this to make it easier, I am just too lazy.
jaybee2003
Mon Feb 23, 2004 6:26 am
#6
/dismount;
/pause .25;
/survey;
/pause .25;
/mount speederbike swoop;
change /survey to /maskscent if you want another useful one.
I just use Nov Artisan for surveying due to lack of skill points.
Cailid010
Mon Feb 23, 2004 9:57 am
#7
I only went up to survey3 and set my tools for 192m range. Then as I needed the points I started dropping survey and my tools stayed at 192m range.
Eyam
Mon Feb 23, 2004 10:53 am
#8
Interesting - so with my tools set at 320 if I drop surveying down to lvl 1 they'll still survey out to 320?
Can anyone verify this?
MyT_Chicken
Mon Feb 23, 2004 2:04 pm
#9
I manage with 0 artisan skills, and haven't had a problem yet.
Songe
Tue Feb 24, 2004 1:20 am
#10
I thought they had fixed that, weird.
In any case, I agree with what is posted before, you can do with just novice artisan but it's a real pain, and you waste a lot of time.
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