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Hey folks I know this has been discussed before, but this is my spin on a new droid type.

This droid is a survey droid that runs along the line of a DZ70. This droid comes with Charges (I was thinking like five) just the new bounty hunter models, but this droid when given a small amount of the mineral to look for will seach a grid for the sample it was sent to look for. This droid when then give you all the sample information for that grid. if any sample is there it will send an email back to you that will give you a grid display just like your sample survey expect that instead of the standard 5 x 5 grid is should give you a 10 x 10 grid.

1. Make it a low material cost, low level droid (be great for Novice level, something other then MSE)

2. It would give all classes that need to search for materials an easier way of looking for changing resources.

3.It wouldprovide away for younger DEs the ability to sell droids and estabilish a customer base for later machines.

This is just a little project that I wish we could implement. The droids are not reuseable, but burn outafteruse or have a few uses and die or have to reconditioned by Droid Engineer again fostering a loyal customer base. Just something to get young DEs really interested in Droid Engineering.Right now we have too few droidsthat people will want to use. Lets get some designs we ALL can use.

this is a good idea. just the other day i was reading on the medics forum about how mad they were that they HAVE to take novice artisan just to sample resources. this would give novice DEs a droid to sell just like you said, and people would want it! it would also fix the problems with classes like medics who need resources to make their items but cant survey without novice artisan. I hope the devs catch this one, this is a great idea.

I like it but a little unblancing for those with survey skill..

I'd like it to do something like search an area of 1k-3k radius (experimentation makes it coser to 3k) it will return with a waypoint that is within 100m of the largest concentrtraction of it. 50m if you have high experimentation on something else.

Of course would not return WP's that is on water.

granted your idea is easier to implment.. they use the same interface as survey tools.

but it would allow combat people to become miners and help lower the prices of resources.

This is not unbalancing to the people WITH the survey skill, as far as I remeber only artisans have the Survey ability and the ability to USE survey devices. Hense this is an artisan ability tool and all of us brothers and sisters will benefit from these helpful little droids.

hmm then i don't see the use of it.. i can do the same just by changing to a smaller range.. other then lazy surveyors.. which many a profit has been made off of relying on the laziness of humans..

Cool, sounds great. In particular this sounds like it would be great for master artisans who have been-there-done-that anddon't need any more surveying experience.

Ah, but what if Survey IV is a prerequisite for being able to make or use this type of droid?

I think it would sell, (anything with a useful function will sell), because surveying is time-consuming and boring. Anything a droid can do that will save time for the player is quite useful to the DE profession.

I would love a droid like this. With all of the resource shifts, finding new veins is taking a great deal of my time. I have Survey IV and while the increased range is nice, I usethe higher skillprimarily for rate of extraction. This type of droid would not make theskill useless, it would compliment it...... even though I'd love to someday see an extraction droid. Ideally I'd like to see a Seeker type that searches for high concentrations, but I'd limit it and the extractor droid to Survey IV people.

One way of controlling it's use might be to make it like survey tools, have a prerequisit tied to their functionality. We already have the survey tools rangelocked into skill, wouldn't be hard to tie this in.

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But if i can make this, what's the point of me having survey IV? those would be wasted skills. While a nice idea in theory, it's not really practical, because it can take place of a whole set of skills.