Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Droid Focus (Interplanetary Survey): Information, discussion and bug-reporting (04/23/04)
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Pooka wrote:
See what resources that are available?
I can do that more easily with swgcraft.com or other fansites...
If it's kept up to date, which it sometimes isn't. I have some Unknown Solid Petro Chem Fuel on Ahazi that has NEVER been reported on SWGCraft.com. I agree that SWGCraft.com (or DENet resource reports, for that matter) make this droid less attractive.
I've already raised it as a major issue with the Devs. I do not yet know what we will see in the email so this might be getting worked on right now. I haven't heard back yet on this...so no news may, in fact, be good news.
We'll see....
I can't see this being a seller at all to be honest, I sure wouldn't buy one. And as far as I can tell, all other crafters that I know of that dig for resources wouldn't bother if you only get an "Availability list" sent to you.
I think it's a situational thing, really. If I wanted to find out info on a planet's resources but also be able to go on a hunt with buddies, this droid lets me do both at the same time, effectively.
That, I think, may be part of the intent behind its use. It lets you at least find out what's out there while leaving you time to do other stuff.
Again....................we'll see.
Respectfully,
TheRealTK421 wrote:
Pooka wrote:
See what resources that are available?
I can do that more easily with swgcraft.com or other fansites...
If it's kept up to date, which it sometimes isn't. I have some Unknown Solid Petro Chem Fuel on Ahazi that has NEVER been reported on SWGCraft.com. I agree that SWGCraft.com (or DENet resource reports, for that matter) make this droid less attractive.
TheRealTK421 wrote:
If it's kept up to date, which it sometimes isn't. I have some Unknown Solid Petro Chem Fuel on Ahazi that has NEVER been reported on SWGCraft.com. I agree that SWGCraft.com (or DENet resource reports, for that matter) make this droid less attractive.
There are players out there that do not ever visit or use these very forums or would not ever know about SWGCraft.com.
I know these folks may be limiting themselves by being out of the loop but we have to recognize they exist and try to work that into what happens with this module.
...just something to consider.
I would really enjoy just being able to have a list of spawns for each planet...without having to go to all of the other 9...why use 10 droids a day...you're obviously on 1 to begin with...so if the usage remains the same...why waste 1.
that being said I think that from a chef standpoint being able to find a wp of the highest concentration for a resource with stats on another planet would eliminate a significant portion of the challenge and fun from the chef profession (yes we are all oddballs and for some odd reason enjoy doing this).
however just generating a list would only be useful for flora...as there is never the same flora on any 2 planets...unlike minerals, and chemicals (I think chem too...might just be minerals).
so perhaps give the droid 2 "options" 1 option being return a named list...which is what it should be doing now...but I've heard its still not even doing this. the 2nd option being grab the stats for a resource on the planet you are on. you'd still have the "time sink" of travelling to that planet...but reduced annoyance at having to roam around in case you can't find a trace of the resource you're after at the starport you chose to shuttle into. you'd also still need survey skills to quickly find that nice 80%+ concentration spot...so shouldn't hurt the surveyor's at all. the wait time on the stat find mission should be reduced to 1 minute as well...since you're already on the planet...most of the "wait time" i.e. travel time for the droid should be eliminated.
this wouldn't really affect surveyor's too much...as they could honestly find a spot, drop a harvester, and wait 1 minute or so for it to pull up a sample...as long as the concentration isn't 0...costs about 3k per planet...but more effective than hand sampling, and having to find a 30% spot for each resource.
oh and the 15 minute wait thing needs to be reduced if you can only send out 1 at a time...if not 15 minutes is fine.
as far as that vertex thing goes...yeah...should probably be changed to generic gemstone....I may not be an armorsmith...but I've seen those prices...if/when you can find any for sale.
charges...well not a DE either, so it would be up to the DE's as to how much factory time they want to devote to these things...which I honestly think might sell more than 1k per day multiple or single use. more charges = less work but maybe less profit for DE's...but with the more profit part...all you may end up being able to do is make these droids...assuming you have the resources for it.
TheRealTK421 wrote:
/bow
I think it's a situational thing, really. If I wanted to find out info on a planet's resources but also be able to go on a hunt with buddies, this droid lets me do both at the same time, effectively.
That, I think, may be part of the intent behind its use. It lets you at least find out what's out there while leaving you time to do other stuff.
Again....................we'll see.
Respectfully,
just thought I'd point out that droid engineers dont necessarily have combat skills 
while yes, I have a second account on which I use to hunt, I also have a second computer, to go with that, and can hunt and survey/shop whatever at the same time (not craft.... tried that before and the rancor wasnt happy at the gp modules I started throwing its way)
MrWizzard wrote:
TheRealTK421 wrote:
/bow
I think it's a situational thing, really. If I wanted to find out info on a planet's resources but also be able to go on a hunt with buddies, this droid lets me do both at the same time, effectively.
That, I think, may be part of the intent behind its use. It lets you at least find out what's out there while leaving you time to do other stuff.
Again....................we'll see.
Respectfully,
just thought I'd point out that droid engineers dont necessarily have combat skills
while yes, I have a second account on which I use to hunt, I also have a second computer, to go with that, and can hunt and survey/shop whatever at the same time (not craft.... tried that before and the rancor wasnt happy at the gp modules I started throwing its way)
even if you don't have combat skills, there are other things ou could be doing. Crafting droids, stocking vendors, just hanging around in the cantina, whatever you normally do.
This droid shouldn't be disposible. It should occupy a slot in your datapad so that you can only have one out at a time. Make them use 30 radioactive every time you want to use it.
Player based economy - the over-riding factor here is going to be cost oftransist (as defined by SoE) vs the droid. It's quicker for me to go to Endor open up my tools(PLURAL)and shuttle hop out than to use this droid.
Requiring that I have a survey tool in inventory is griefing me. It's a survey droid for bleep sakes - complexity in getting things done does not equate to fun. (What happens if I don't have a suvey tool in inventory? yeah - there goes 30 vertex gems which puts these babies at about 30,000 creditsper right now.)
I really agree with the master artisan level suggestion - that was part of the original suggestion - make the droid find a spot which matches a specific criteria. Surveying for a spot can be a huge timesink. It's not much fun to do it either. And it makes for horrible RP.
AltharXXX wrote:
LOL - 30 units of Vertex Crystalline Gemstone
Guess this unit isn't going to be showing up on some servers for a while.
I've been waiting 2 months for this stuff on corbantis.
No one had ever heard of it that I had talked to...don't ask me how but I was in the sticks on Dantooine the other day and found one of those "spare stock" resource vendors that never get visted. With three days left to go on the sale, I found 100K stack of the stuff for 2cpu.
I bought it, and just for the heck of it I have been out searching for more, just to see if it exists; can't find any.
Everything else for the modules is pretty pedestrian, and one thing I am pleased about is that for the most part the modules didn't have tons of required MA parts.
AO
AltharXXX wrote:
Player based economy - the over-riding factor here is going to be cost oftransist (as defined by SoE) vs the droid. It's quicker for me to go to Endor open up my tools(PLURAL)and shuttle hop out than to use this droid.
Jenden wrote:
AltharXXX wrote:
Player based economy - the over-riding factor here is going to be cost oftransist (as defined by SoE) vs the droid. It's quicker for me to go to Endor open up my tools(PLURAL)and shuttle hop out than to use this droid.
yea, but is it quicker for you to go to endor, lok, dantooine, and dathomir then to send out 4 (or 8 if you need 2 types of resources, most people don't need more than that) droids at once? Plus while they're doing there thing, you can do whatever it is that you want to get done.