Droid Engineer Archive

At present 105.

Using Platinite Copper (Febagis) Carbonite Steel (Iniis) and Corthel Inert Gas (Quadahi)

Will be aiming for alot higher as this is turning out to be a high demand Droid.

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Protilious wrote:
My best is +99.

I don't know why. I have great resources and toss all failures. What do you look for? OQ? My gas is 977, copper is 948 and steel is 998. Of course this is all OQ.

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Wow you other Scylla guys are making me look bad, that's what I get for starting to collect stuff only about a month ago. I have the good Acaw steel, but the copper is my problem.

For conversation purposes, what is the Harvesting difference between say a 100 , 107, and 115? Is it a huge difference? May need to try and buy some older resources.

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GoC_Tweek wrote:

if i pop a veghash (+ creature harvesting) then use a droid to harvest, does the droid get the veghash bonus as well?

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Mightion wrote:

I used the rest of my Erco steel to make modules with 18 bonus... I have two on my vendor - each came out with 111 harvest bonus.

I'm out of Erco now... But if I can get more, I can make more.

Edit: Using my regular schematic, I can make 107s.

Message Edited by Mightion on 05-09-2004 02:57 PM

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Same here Mightion. The 111 on Chily seems only possible with Erco. I made a few 111's but Siekierah isn't too happy that I used her Weaponsmithin' Erco, lol. Next best I have is 108's with Ikawid steel.

THEO

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Protilious wrote:

BTW: I just want to say I think the harvest droid is one of the most usefull droids we can make and is the best kept secret in the new build.

My Ranger character uses one all the time. Helps a lot. It always gathers more than he can.

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I am a ranger as well and I completely disagree with this statement. I have used a 106 rated harvesting droid a few times and what I find is that it slows me down.

• It takes a while to run up to the corpse


• It takes longer than I would to harvest it


• It insists on running back after it completes a harvest


• I cannot chain harvest commands together so I have to wait and watch as it harvests so i can tell it the next thing to harvest


• I am a rifleman, and I tend to kill several things at a time with strafe2, so I don't always have the corpses targeted. This means that I have to find the corpses on the ground from 60+m away and click on them to get the droid to target and harvest them. It's a pain


• Then to top it off, the droid doesn't always listen to me. Sometimes I target a corpse and say "Harvest" and it moves 2 meters and then stops. Usually takes one or two more times to get it to go after the corpse at that point.


• In the end, its harvest rate is not so much higher than mine that it makes up for the lost time of dealing with its quirkiness and slow pace.

Call me picky but the thing is practically worthless to me. About the only time I would use it is if someone was offering like 200cpu for some uber avian meat, and even then I might not.

It comes down to speed. If i can rapidly take down and harvest all the creatures of a lair and move on to the next one using /areatrack, I am better off than sitting with my thumb up my bum waiting for R2Dipstick to get his act together and harvest the darn birdie meat.

Sorry if this sounds like a rant, but why couldn't the devs have just given us a droid that gives us scouts a bonus to harvest, like the medical droids do for docs and buffs? So much simpler, less code, and more useful.

Nako

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TheRealTK421 wrote:

I made a pretty good number of +20 modules on TC. I was able to build Harvest +120 R3 Adv. who appeared to get their owners a 20% yield (over and above what they could sample).


Closest on Live? 17.


/bow

Respectfully,

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