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Samaw

Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:37 am

It was great idea, but a very incomplete idea that SOE has some rome to improve on. I really like the idea of stepping out of your house and sending the Survey droid off to see what is spawning on a planet.

Here is my suggest and it probly has been stated. Which will work too fold, one increase the demand of Survey, two increase the reason for use. In the change leave it the same as they are now are, where you send them out and they return with what is currently spawning on the planet you sent it to. Then add the ability to send it again telling it get a sample of a named resouces or a couple of resources. Thus you to get a complete survey it will take about 10 to 15 uses.

Message Edited by Samaw on 02-07-2005 10:58 AM

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Naurbrannon

Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:44 am

#2

I found the survey droid quite useless, in the time it takes giving me information about one planet with my private ship I already surveyed the entire galaxy twice

I think it would be useful if it send some email attachments with waypoints to highest concentration spots

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neinnunb

Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:43 pm

#3

When shuttle times were 10 minutes, survey droids would fall into a niche market for people not wanting to waste time shuttleing to all planets to survey. Now, shuttle times are 1 minute and JTL makes planet hopping instant and free. These changes have made the survey droid pretty much obsolete.

Even though I think the survey droid needs better implementation, I think we should push for a quick fix by asking for much shorter survey droid return time (time it takes for you to receive the email from the droid). Maybe a couple of minutes would be good, with a slight increase in uses maybe to give it more value.

Recently the devs have shown a drastic change in what they think about forced time sinks (1 min shuttle, reduced heal times, reduced incap time and even suggesting remote delivery across the bazaar). I think now is a good time to ask them for this.

Jenden, maybe you can include this quick fix idea in the correspondent forum?

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