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Thread: harvesting droids
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pap
Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:04 pm
#2
ok not to familiar with these do you need any scout skills to have a droid harvest for you and how much can they harvest.
darthgood
Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:36 pm
#3
I have found also, that if you have hunting 3, the harvest droid ceases to become useful. You will harvest more than the droid at that level. But the droid is nice until that point.
Leana_Txorana
Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:45 pm
#4
At harvest IV I get better harvesting with the droid. Are you grouped with the droid or ungrouped. I found that if grouped with the droid, I get the 60% harvest penalty and the droid harvest is based off that 60%. But if I have the droid follow me ungrouped, it gets the full value.
DevilsAdvocate
Tue Sep 14, 2004 1:56 pm
#5
Harvest droids add to your ability, so at novice scout it will harvest more than you and at Master Scout it will Harvest more than you...heck at Master Ranger it will still harvest more than you...at least in theory...I have not been a master ranger.
Tarne_Monter
Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:00 pm
#6
pap wrote:
ok not to familiar with these do you need any scout skills to have a droid harvest for you and how much can they harvest.
Yes, you need to have scout skills. And how much they harvest is based off of your skill and the droids skill. I've got a formula for it, but I don't think it handles certain regions very well. Such as the region where the droid is at least 1.5x your current scout rating. Then it starts to have issues.
Mostly because I don't have enough data. hint-hint.
Here's the forumla.
f(x) = 0.1426 * ln(x) + 1.0766
Where:f(x) is the percentage increase you get from using the droid (i.e 1.05 means a 5% incr.)
x is the ratio of the droids creature harvesting stat and your creature harvesting stat.
Obo_alCan
Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:27 pm
#7
"where the droid is at least 1.5x your current scout rating"
Which numbers are you talking about here? Yield or difference in skill ratings?
Which numbers are you talking about here? Yield or difference in skill ratings?
Tarne_Monter
Tue Sep 14, 2004 2:56 pm
#8
Obo_alCan wrote:
"where the droid is at least 1.5x your current scout rating"
Which numbers are you talking about here? Yield or difference in skill ratings?
Oh, sorry. The difference/ratio in skill ratings, not the yield.
sciguyCO
Tue Sep 14, 2004 3:04 pm
#9
From my experience, the droid's effectiveness rating gives a percentage multiplier to what you'd harvest yourself to determine what the droid extracts. So if you get 50 units of meat with your current hunting skills, a 110 rated droid would harvest 55 units (50 * 110%). Plus you can have the droid harvest during combat.
This does definitely take Veghash bonuses into account, and probably any +creature harvesting SEAs you might have (if those even exist).
The 60% group reduction was supposed to be a bug, is that still happening? I admit I haven't used a harvest droid with my main character, just some stuff on TC a while ago.
ValenDrake
Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:01 pm
#10
How do these droids work exactly?
Do u harvest as usual and u just get higher yield coz the droid is out?
Or does the droid actually harvest for u?
Basically I can't figure how mine works....cheers 
pap
Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:54 am
#11
ok simple question do you need to have any scout skills to have a droid harvest for you and what is the largest number of say meat a droid can harvest for you?
Jjiaah
Wed Sep 15, 2004 5:47 am
#12
<edit: Posted in wrong thread... damn netscrape tabs...>
Message Edited by Jjiaah on 09-15-2004 06:33 AM
Atan
Thu Sep 16, 2004 2:04 am
#13
Take a look here : http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=droid_engineer&message.id=80764
Its a bit older but it should help
MfG
Atan
Atan
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