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Agt-Orange

Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:13 am

Just an Idea, You could call a probe droid out that had a survay moduel in it. Opening the raidal menu a new option to "survey". clicking it would bring up a menu with all the types of resorces (in other woods the difrent tools we curently us mineral flora water)

Selecting the type brings up a menu that looks like the tools menu we curently use. A big list of the curently avalable minnerals. Select the one you want to look for then click the survey buton. The droid flys off into the sky like the bounty hunter droids do now. After some time it will report back with the waypoint. In the survey menu you can set the effencey of the stuff your looking for you can also set it to sample and report back but that takes more time this would save me plenty of time by alowing me to go off and manage extractors when the droids are out looking for minnerals.

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DarthIguana

Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:34 am

#2

Variations on this idea are probably the most frequently suggested utility module. I'd LOVE something like this. My variation on the idea was that the droid would be expendable like a BH tracker droid. You'd set it for a particular type of resource (like say minerals) turn it loose and it would give you the WP to the highest concentraions in a 1Km radius of its launch point. OR you'd set it to find a particular resource that's available at the moment and it would find the highest concentration of the resource in a 1Km are before it died. Then you could go to the WP and launch another until you hit the max available concentration...

I'm sure there are plenty of other implimentations of that theme, but the Devs ahve said that all of them are difficult to do due to the way the game is built. I still think we should keep hammering that this idea though

Chris

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Naufragus

Mon Mar 22, 2004 10:38 am

#3

THIS IS ALL I WANT!!!

i envision it working in 2 ways....

1) You tell it the resource you want it to survey for and it finds the "nearest" highest concentration and send you the wayoint

2) general survey...you turn the little bugger loose and it basically surveys the entire planet...moveing up and down the map until it has a resource snap shot of everything...then using the control V map you can pull up the surveys as you would vendors and towns and banks...but this might take up to 6 hours for the survey

a good thing about this for DE's i that the droids could be destroyable while out on there own and this would generate profit for DEs

We all hate surveying...it really isnt a "skill" ...its only in the skill boxes because ages and ages ago it lead to miner and another profession or 2...

if the devs are all on their "skill" trip then they can make it that the survey 1-4 give you survey droid certs...

This is a UTILITY droid unlike the worthless disco ball they are currently offering us

Kollos

Mon Mar 22, 2004 12:43 pm

#4

Yup, and if it were implemented like Seekers and/or Arakyds it would even be a good return sales product. Something that we desperately need.

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NZSithSniper

Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:24 am

#5

yes, this is a very good idea, but I think it would make it too easy, i would like to see the droids fly off and giv u a wp...but not an exact Wp, just an area where u hav to go and survey manually again, just once maybe, so u can find the true "highest" concentration...

And yes, also making them sample so u can see the quality is good idea too so if it crap u dont hav to go and resurvey...

This would help bring us into a utility market,which cant be bad at all...:-D

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RotorofCorRng

Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:32 am

#6

Make to where you can only use survey droids when you have reached survey4. And no xp given, sorta like factories.

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