Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: *publish day* findings so far...the good bad & ugly! (for those at work)
Kollos wrote:
Javac wrote:
Yeah, I have a lot of LE Repair "Tankbots" on my vendorso it sucks for me as well.I pulled one off and readied it, and it was still 2180 HAM (old value). I pulled an R3 Advanced from a crate and the deed shows 4477 HAM (new value). Readied, same value.
[insert 10-minute stream of profanity here]
Idiots. They can retro-nerf the armor off of every droid in existence, but they can't do the same for HAM values. No, of course not, that would HELP their customers.
Now I have to try to figure out whether or not I can sell them at all even at a steep discount, or if I should just destroy all that work AGAIN and just beg SOE to use lube next time.
EdrickHaze wrote:
So anybody correct me if I'm wrong...but it appears that a good harvesting droids only usefullness is it allows a player to drop all of the hunting tree in scout...free up some skill pts...since only you or the droid can harvest and not both harvest the same creature...does this sound about right?
Ed'rick
Actually, no. That's completely not right. The droid is SUPPOSED to bea bonus to YOUR creature harvest and can harvest for you. If you drop your hunting tree, the droid's harvest drops too. The droid's ability to harvest is based on YOUR ability to harvest. The big bonus is that you can have the droid harvesting while YOU are still fighting. Which makes for faster harvesting - you don't have to stop killing to harvest.
Also, I have not yet had a chance to test it, but according to things I've seen posted, the droids aren't subject to the 40% grouping penalty, so if you're harvesting with a couple other people you SHOULD get a full harvest off the droid where you'd only get 60% your normal cut. However, I haven't had a chance to test this yet, or to see if two people can harvest the same corpse with two droids.
-V
Message Edited by EdrickHaze on 04-27-2004 01:38 PM
EdrickHaze wrote:
My question is...where is the bonus?
Ed'rick
Believe me, I'm wondering that too. I need to get a droid made with like a +100 or something. You know, an R3 with six modules in it. And I do need to see if the 1-module MSE harvests less than I do normally. This IS supposed to be a bonus to our own harvesting skill, but I haven't seen a bonus yet. I don't know how these bonuses work.
Someone on the harvest module topic said a +95 would be about a 20% increase in harvesting rates.
If you can have people grouped and two droids harvesting the same corpse in that group without hitting the 40% penalty like a grouped player does, THAT in and of itself would be a huge gain. That's something I'll be testing too.
-V
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Me harvesting, solo: 44 units
Me harvesting, grouped with creature pet: 44 units
Droid Harvesting, grouped with it and pets: 47 units
Me harvesting, grouped with droid and pet: 44 units
So, that appears to be working correctly, albeit a semi smallish bonus. Droid's harvest bonus rating of 81 led to a bonus of 6.8%.
Trapping:
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Module worked as reported. I could load in traps, up to the amount listed on the deed (each individual trap counts as 1 spot, not each stack). Droid seemed to fire a trap every 5 seconds if I queued up more than one, independent of my combat queue. Only allowed me to load 1 type, even with more than one trap module.
According to the DE that was working on these droids for me (thanks J'Vee!), the trapping module *storage* seems to cap out at 2 modules. He got 24 storage for each, so 48 max traps stored. Not sure if there is a bonus to your to-hit of traps or anything for stacking beyond that.
I think that I'll really like having a 4x harvest 2x trap R3 with me whenever I am hunting, loaded up with phecnacine darts, or adhesive mesh. For when I really want to stock up on resources, I might use a 6x harvest module droid as well.
Are people sure that both you and the Droid can't harvest? I know that 2 "people" can harvest the same critter. So are people positive that you and the droid can't both harvest? Grouped and Ungrouped?
Could somebody pelase elaborate on the cluster and socket problem? I'm still leanring DE myself, and since I'm at work, I can't actually "see" what your talking about.
While crafting a Protocol spambot, i forgot to make an adv droid brain and so back paged to the main menu (after i had inserted all the other modules/ resources). Now normally I've had the resources simply return to my inventory when i do this, but while crafting this droid, the adv protocol chasis i had made and colored dissappeared!!! gone from inventory!! I had to make a new one. Has anyone experianced this yet? Has it happened with the default chasis coloring? Any one else unluckly?