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Jenden

Mon Apr 26, 2004 10:58 am

Naufragus wrote:

Handsnake wrote:

They'd be HAPPY to do the sampling for the detailed stats. They ENJOY finding the high points of resources (I do as well).

sometimes i think i am playing a different game....i will keep looking....maybe i will find someone in game who actually enjoys surveying and looks forward to doing it week after week

Its not the act of surveying, its the challenge. If you were just handed a list of all the minable wp's things would get very old very fast.

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neinnunb

Tue Apr 27, 2004 9:37 am

#197

Just came from testing the droid out after the publish in live and overall im happy with it, as are allot of people who have tried it out. If the droid was able to bring back resource qualities it would have been perfect but I understand why the devs would hesitate on that.

However, I might suggest TK(havent had time to double check if someone has braught up this idea) that you push the idea of possibly having the choice ofasking the droid to find the quality of a specific type of resource. For example I ask the droid to find out what the Pholokite Ore quality is like at any given planet and it brings back the quality of only that type of resource. Maybe even make it take extra longer time to get report email from droid to encourage actual travel to see quality personally.

Just my 2 credits.

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WarHero1016

Tue Apr 27, 2004 1:02 pm

#198

I did a couple tests on these, a quality 55 survey took 34m and a quality 78 took 24m. Also I tried experimenting on the survey devices and found that it made no difference at all in the time.

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swg-albert

Tue Apr 27, 2004 3:16 pm

#199

*ditto* Worthless for real crafters. Huge potential, great idea, CRAP implementation!

Help me survey without having to run over the entire planet...or help me find resources of quality....or...

for those of you who could careless about the quality of the item you are searching for, great news, there is a droid that can help you.

Albert

Master Architect (since Aug, 2003)

Mos Krayt, Tatooine, Wanderhome

Wyan_Warbringer

Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:03 am

#200

Vertex spawned on Kauri...

I was an idiot, found a 78% spot RIGHT UNDER my house. Looked it up on SWGcraft, saw it wasn't used in any scehmatics and didn't mine a bit of it.

-Ed

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R0ZM4N

Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:27 am

#201

I've been asked by a customer whether the BH 'Droid tracking speed' skill/tapes will have any effect on the return times for these new puppies, does anybody have any experience in this?

Kisses

Cass

...From the desk of Colonel Cass L'Arcana...
Imperial Armed Forces | Distinction & Honour

Redskuller

Wed Apr 28, 2004 4:48 am

#202

R0ZM4N wrote:

I've been asked by a customer whether the BH 'Droid tracking speed' skill/tapes will have any effect on the return times for these new puppies, does anybody have any experience in this?

Kisses

Cass

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! But hey, I like the way they are thinking!

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TheOrb

Wed Apr 28, 2004 9:45 pm

#203

/bump

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jemelby

Thu Apr 29, 2004 5:13 am

#204

secretbuyer wrote:

.....the only reason i got people buying these right now is cause they dont fully understand how unuseful they are, after word gets out these things will be collecting dust on my vendor for 50cents a pop

For all who keep calling these droids useless (Not just targeting you, secretbuyer), you need to start saying "this droid is useless to 'me'."

You can't say it's useless, because I use them. And there are at lease 550 other people on flurry who use them. There were 18 people camping my vendor on patch day when I brought up the first 5 crates. A quick glance at the "vendor sales" show at least 50 return buyers. Many of these people bought one to try, and came back for crates.

The bottom line is that there is a HUGE population that LOVES these droids, and use them extensivly within the design parameters.

You CAN'T say they are useless, because they have uses, and are being used. At the very most, you can only say that you personaly have use for them. And if you can't find a single client that wants to use them, then you (nay-sayers in general) need to pack up your shop and find a combat profession.

Message Edited by jemelby on 04-29-2004 04:15 AM

J'Vee
Mos Onarok, Tatooine - Flurry

mhal9000

Thu Apr 29, 2004 6:36 am

#205

TheRealTK421 wrote:

For now, I can't keep them in stock. They sell at 2k per use like hotcakes.

There are many that want:

The ability to know when a rare spawns on certain/all planets

The ability to know when they need to go and pull a harvester they dropped on a distant planet

The time savings added into this droid (the 'you can still make money doing other stuff while it does the work for you') is the closer for most sales on these.

/bow

Respectfully,

That sums up why I love these droids in a nutshell. I can fire off a few of these things when I first log on, go about checking my emails and getting ready and before I know it, I know whether I need to make a trip to Dantooine or some other outer planet.

It saves me time, and I'll happily pay for that convenience.

Federated ResourcesHork Haggis, Retired

Pallida

Thu Apr 29, 2004 7:39 am

#206

secretbuyer wrote:
SWGCraft makes these droids fairly useless....yet quite useful to people who survey for SWGCraft....
ironic

SWGcraft is the ultimate survey droid imo...15-20 people per server could use these to help to report to swgcraft, but the remaing population of the game is always going to use sqgcraft...most resources are on there within a few hours and personally thats good enough for me

the only reason i got people buying these right now is cause they dont fully understand how unuseful they are, after word gets out these things will be collecting dust on my vendor for 50cents a pop

Gee.. I had no idea that youwere on a first-name basis with each of the tens of thousands of folks that play SWG.

I have to say that I am quite impressed with your "people skills."

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- Account: Master TKA (cancelled)
- Account: Master Doctor (cancelled)
- Account: Smuggler (cancelled)
- Account: Master Chef (cancelled)
- Account: Master Droid Engineer (activity suspended pending developments)
Total loss of annual revenue (SOE): ~$715US to ~$900US
- Bad press: Priceless
Should Sony and Lucas Arts be worried? (15000 users * 5 accts = ~$13MIL in potential lost gross annual revenue) If I were the CEO for either LA or SOE, I would certainly be worried.

TheRealTK421

Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:19 pm

#207

I've heard a lot of grumbling on these. I think this is one of those additions that will require time to really see how it fits (and if/what changes might be desired).

For now, I can't keep them in stock. They sell at 2k per use like hotcakes.

There are many that want:

The ability to know when a rare spawns on certain/all planets

The ability to know when they need to go and pull a harvester they dropped on a distant planet

The time savings added into this droid (the 'you can still make money doing other stuff while it does the work for you') is the closer for most sales on these.

I think once the general populace learns how to get/use the value in these, they will become a medium commodity item for DEs. But that's just an early opinion on how it appears to be shaping up.

...more to come on these as needed...

/bow

Respectfully,

TheRealTK421 a.k.a. "Doughbacca"

SWG DE Correspondent

Co-Founding member of Ahazi DENet & SWG DEA (Droid Engineer Association)

"I think all right-thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. ...I'm certainly not. And I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."

secretbuyer

Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:35 pm

#208

SWGCraft makes these droids fairly useless....yet quite useful to people who survey for SWGCraft....
ironic

SWGcraft is the ultimate survey droid imo...15-20 people per server could use these to help to report to swgcraft, but the remaing population of the game is always going to use sqgcraft...most resources are on there within a few hours and personally thats good enough for me

the only reason i got people buying these right now is cause they dont fully understand how unuseful they are, after word gets out these things will be collecting dust on my vendor for 50cents a pop

Qert - Former Rifleman/MCM

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