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Thread: Quick surveying droid question
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certifiedandrew
Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:09 pm
#1
Interplanetary survey droids:
*Do these find high concentrations of a selected resource?
*How long does this process take?
*Are these effective at finding the 90%+ veins?
*Do these find high concentrations of a selected resource?
*How long does this process take?
*Are these effective at finding the 90%+ veins?
Velneth
Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:03 pm
#2
No.
Depends on how they're experimented. Mine are around 45 mins.
No.
Depends on how they're experimented. Mine are around 45 mins.
No.
JavelinCatcher
Thu Nov 04, 2004 7:44 am
#3
certifiedandrew wrote:
Interplanetary survey droids:
*Do these find high concentrations of a selected resource? No
*How long does this process take? Depends on resources and experimentation (tradeoff for charges)
*Are these effective at finding the 90%+ veins? No
Philis
Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:57 am
#4
To be honest I can´t find any use for the interplanetary survey droid even if they only take about 20 mins to use, since anyone can hit the alt+tab and check out swgcraft.com in a matter of seconds. If the devs would have the droids either to check for high concentrations or to display stats about the resources, then I´d be selling a lot more of those suckers. Not to mention, I wouldn´t feel like ripping off customers.
Phaedo
JavelinCatcher
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:20 pm
#5
Philis wrote:
To be honest I can´t find any use for the interplanetary survey droid even if they only take about 20 mins to use, since anyone can hit the alt+tab and check out swgcraft.com in a matter of seconds. If the devs would have the droids either to check for high concentrations or to display stats about the resources, then I´d be selling a lot more of those suckers. Not to mention, I wouldn´t feel like ripping off customers.
Phaedo
This comment is made a lot. It's got it's point pretty well made. Those of us who have used swgcraft since the beginning can tell you that there were planets that rarely get updated: Dathomir, Endor, Yavin 4 and Rori on some servers were the big 4.
Then came allong Interplanetary Survey Droids....
Now, people use these to update Swgcraft more efficiently. Endor actually gets updated. Ever notice all of those resources at the bottom that have names but no stats? Ever wonder how a person got those names and why they didn't just sample to get the stats? It's due to swgcraft's mail parser script that will parse the /mailsave of the email the ISD returns.
So yes while "just looking it up on swgcraft" is a option, there are a lot more things going on in the background most people don't realize.
Philis
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:33 pm
#6
Thx JavelinCatcher, I actually didn´t think about players using the surveydroids to update swgcraft. So I´ll stay in a corner and feel ashamed for a while 
starcraftWS
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:34 pm
#7
Personally, I don't use interplanetary survey droids to look for new resources. I use them to save time and travel costs to see if something I'm already mining is still there.
Although they don't fly off the vendors, they do sell at a decent rate.
Wirebiter
Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:45 pm
#8
D-Master wrote:
Mine are 17 min and think its close to the lowest time possible
Yeah, if your getting 17mins, your pretty much maxed out on time (realisticly). Now to get more than 6 or 7 charges out of them, thats the hard part
D-Master
Thu Nov 04, 2004 1:57 pm
#9
Mine are 17 min and think its close to the lowest time possible
D-Master
Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:04 pm
#10
Exact stats are 17,47 and 8 uses, i only craft this for myselves and i use them to se if a resource i mine is still there.
The one i sell is 14 uses dont remember time on them,
I find the Surveydroids quite usefule and it saves me some travel time and ticket cost.
Lycids
Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:35 am
#11
The droids just tell what resources are on said planet. No indication is given of concentrations. The ones i make take twenty minutes to get the results back to me.
Imaladris
Sun Nov 07, 2004 12:25 pm
#12
I still have a few crates left over from when they first came out. I refuse to make them anymore because of swgcrat. They don't sell, they are basically useless to people who harvest on a regualr basis. If the DEV's read this, make the survey droids more appealing(give stats and highest concentration on planet) and I'll go back and make these!
psikobunny
Sun Nov 07, 2004 1:12 pm
#13
I tend to go for quantity on the stack instead of speed. This conserves on the rare resources I use to make them. and yes, I do use them to check on whether something I am harvesting is still available. It beats swgcraft in this regard, since the rate things drop off the site is often much slower than the rate new spawns are added.
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