Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: hey how about a survey droid?
Another good idea. However I get the feeling by reading alot from TH and the other around here, if a player can do it, then a droid never will. I know that defeats the purpose of droids like crazy, but thats what we got.
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Message Edited by Kollos on 03-15-2004 04:59 PM
ProteusLeafdew wrote:
it would be nice to send out a probot to search for a specific resource and send back a wp when it finds x% in some spot ... somthing to ask for?
This is a great idea useful idea... but alas, like all useful things for DE... it wont ever happen
I think this would be great if it worked like the BH arakyd droids. Basically you have a craftable item with charges, droid use levels in the survey tree, and limit the range of the droid to a reasonable area, i.e not the whole planet. Each droid charge can be used once and for only one resource. You then have craftable droids for each resource type, mineral, water, chemical, solar, wind, flora, and gas. These droids could only be called down, like the arakyd, outside of a city and can only be used on the same planet you are on. The droids response time would be equivalent to the time it takes a person to go out and find the resource themselves. If you put these into Novice DE low in the trees we could make a little money and save ourselves some time surveying. it wouldnt sample though and you still have to go out and place harvesters. I mean if you can make a droid to find a bio-signature somewhere in the whole galaxy, you should be able to program a droid to find some steel 1000m away. But I think it would be important to tie it all in with the surveying tree so that range and effectiveness were factors in leveling surveying, therefore surveying missions dont become that much easier. Maybe once you get Survey IV though the droid could tell you what the qualities of the resource are.
Then you just throw out the survey tool all together, except maybe have a harvesting tool to test samples. This would provide highly salable, cheap droids to the galaxy, return customers, and a way for DEs to make small amounts of cash even at low levels. Having a single droid for all the surveying, although it makes perfect sense given the realm of technology in SWG, would be too easy in the DEVs mind I'm sure, but make it a small sacrifice, i.e. paying everytime you survey for a resource seems perfectly reasonable.
Prin Eckbo
Master DE, Shadowfire