Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: First Look Interplanetary Survey Droid Information
Message Edited by Kaldeth on 04-17-2004 05:08 AM
I dont think having the tools seperate is that big of a deal, but it could work in a way that you just have to have survey tool of the type you want to use the droid. So that in a sense the droid is in communication with the tool, or the survey tool is programming the droid or downloading data types to it.
Prin
with only survey 2 i can spend 20-30 minute easy chasing a vein of what i want and it end up only being 32% or 49%.. when i know there is a 89% jsut got to find it.
Message Edited by Tarkane on 04-17-2004 08:37 PM
Here is a question that I had.
When the droid is out, sent to survey, can you still call other droids? or do you have to wait the 30 mins for the report? And can you launch more than one at a time? like sending them to all the planets in a span of 5 mins?
EronNightwind wrote:
Here is a question that I had.
When the droid is out, sent to survey, can you still call other droids? or do you have to wait the 30 mins for the report? And can you launch more than one at a time? like sending them to all the planets in a span of 5 mins?
The droid does not act like a called droid from your datapad (it never touches the datapad). It is in your inventory - then you double click the droid's icon. From there, you will get the menu's and it asks for a tool to use.
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I did want to make a plug here about using the survey droid. Most people are going to at least keep one survey tool in their main inventory. I will give players the credit i hope they deserve when they either notice that the title mentions tool selection, when all thats listed is the tools they have in their main inventory, or when they use the droid - their tool goes missing - that it requires the tool itself each time. Thats how i found out.
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Once the droid is used - it just disapears from your inventory. in 15 minutes the droid will return the e-mail. (not the 20-30 that i thought it was taking). When its sent out - there is no reason you can't call droids or use another survey droid immediately. (tested and verified)
Message Edited by Morturr on 04-18-2004 06:03 PM
They are both used up upon use.
/bow
Respectfully,
Redskuller wrote:
the survey tool re-appears? or the droid re-appears? Hopefully the tool. *crosses fingers*
Message Edited by Redskuller on 04-18-2004 06:36 PM
guys and gals.. it jsut a tool no biggie so it goes away..make more.
hmm let the buyer beware ( they should read the discripption more often).... and blame everything on the devs...
The only thing that I don't like hearing is that the droid will take a survey tool with it and not come back.
As far as a 20 or 30 minute wait-- that is pretty good as far as I'm concerned. If I have to travel to a planet, I'll have to travel to a starport (5-10 minutes), wait on the shuttle to the other planet (5-10 minutes), get off the shuttle and either get a ticket to the next planet (another 5-10 minutes) or go start surveying. Now that I've at least waited at least 10-15 minutes, I still haven't located a good concentration and we all know how long that can take- 10-30 minutes or more... which brings me to my next thought.
These droids had better give us the concentrations it finds or it will not be worth my credits.
Rythen wrote:
These droids had better give us the concentrations it finds or it will not be worth my credits.
Maybe not your credits, but it's definatly worth mine. I'm hoping to launch my first one today. Are they fixed yet?
I don'tneccessarily like harvesting, because it's a pain in the butt. For example, I spend most of my time on Naboo. Last week I went to Lok becuase no radioactive had spawned on Naboo and my factories were getting low. So I plant my harvester, and made it a point to check swgcraft to see when (or at least get an idea when) the resource depleted. Finally ran out of power about 5 days later, so I go to pick up some more. I get to my harvester and I have... 6,000 units. Looks like my harvester was only gathering for about a day. I picked up my power and generator and marked the resource unavailable.
So anyways, because of stuff like this, I don't like harvesting. I pay for most of my resources. However some Colat spawned off of Naboo, and since I wasn't finding any for sale 4 days into the spawn, I bit the bullet and planted some harvesters on Rori. Since the spawn is already kinda old and Colat might not last long, I've had to take a couple shuttles just to check to see if it's still up or not, cause I like having my lots available for factories. Now once I get some of these droids, I can sit my lazy butt on Naboo crafting, and know that the next time I log on and the spawn is depleated, I can go and reclaim my lots for the factories I'll put the Colat into. 
I can't wait. I hope they are fixed today so I can start using them.
Rythen wrote:
The only thing that I don't like hearing is that the droid will take a survey tool with it and not come back.
As far as a 20 or 30 minute wait-- that is pretty good as far as I'm concerned. If I have to travel to a planet, I'll have to travel to a starport (5-10 minutes), wait on the shuttle to the other planet (5-10 minutes), get off the shuttle and either get a ticket to the next planet (another 5-10 minutes) or go start surveying. Now that I've at least waited at least 10-15 minutes, I still haven't located a good concentration and we all know how long that can take- 10-30 minutes or more... which brings me to my next thought.
These droids had better give us the concentrations it finds or it will not be worth my credits.
Why can't we just put a survey tool in it during crafting and call it good? Or just up the required resources by 32 units. Then pick whatever type of resource we want to use anyway. In simpler terms, I don't see why we can't just add a wind survey device as a generic survey tool and still be able to pick "minerals" when we launch. If the whole point is that it requires an artisan component, then who really cares how it is used? Or maybe we make it work like power conditioners and put a "droid survey device" as a master artisan craftable droid module.
I'd also like to see a two-stage survey. The first droid you send out should send you an entry for a planet to your datapad with a list of all avail resources for that survey type. You should be able to load this datapad item into the next droid you send to get a waypoint(s) for the exact resource you select. You should also be able to select a minimum percentage to look for. The higher the percentage the longer it should take to return.
Just my thoughts.
Also, the DE I purchased from was crating survey tools to go along with the droids, so I purchased a crate of mineral tools from them. Can't see why anyone complains about this. Maybe the storage/factory time issue I guess. But still, if you choose to supply the tools with the droids, more credits for you.