Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Forced layoff due to resources on Gorath
Well, thanks SOE. I wanted to take a break from my DE on Gorath and play an alt on another server, and you have made it easy. Why? Well, the last time Duralloy steel appeared on any planet on Gorath was august.
Yep here we are in october, over a month later, and still no duralloy. Its bad enough that we cant make any armor for droids. But Armorsmiths also use that metal in Compisite armor. So 2 classes are basically at a standstill on our server until the resource gods decide to smile upon us and make this steel magically appear again.
Its a sad state of affairs. I was one of the lucky ones. I had 15k of it on me when it disappeared. And it has lasted me till last week. But when anyone got word that I had a bit left in my horde, I would get outrageous offers for some. Best one i remember was 10k credits for 140 units. (i refused offer).
When people are offering 75 credits a unit for a resource, how about turning it back on for that server? Or better yet, lets not have any resource disappear for more than 2 weeks.
So I am off to play my alt combat medic, guess I will check back on my DE every few days, see if the resource gods will grace our server with duralloy steel so I can actually make some droids again.
This might be better posted on your servers board.
Resources are random and are not controlled by SOE. On Radiant we have never seen Duranium steel or a Gemstone used in making T21's, and that's something you just have to live with. Eventually the resource will come back and everyone will harvest millions of units, but until then the prices will just rise to reflect the changing market.
searching for that Sweet resource, fighting cridders that get in my way and basically being my SWG Character self.
Anyone that has issue with that just doesn't get the beauty of this game. So many other MMRPGs are so competitive it silly. Where is the compitition here.
The competition is skill based so the more skills you have the better you survive, Welcome to SWG Life. So ironic it took a game to show me what life was about... lol jk
The resource system they have is brain dead stupid and should never have been given a second thought. It should just spawn the basic elements. This would add two more stages to crafting:
Refining. The quality/purity may change with each patch that spawns, but that would only effect the amount you get after refining. The refining would decide the quality. And poorly refined resurces could still be taken to a better refiner.
Metal urgie. Create the final resources through blending.
A 3rd and 4th could be mixing of chems and gasses for those or mineral, cheim and gas could be done under the same class
Vorg wrote:...Metal urgie. Create the final resources through blending.
I think you mean Metallurgy. I don't really want to think about what 'Metal Urgie' might mean.
Incidentally, I love how you can 'mine steel'. Of course in UO you could 'mine bronze' so I probably shouldn't be surprised.
Come on, you cant tell me over a month without a VITAL resource to 2 professions is fun. Come over to Gorath some time and try to buy some armor, or a probot if its so fun. Every vendor is empty.
I asked 15 different master armorsmiths to make me some special armor in the past 2 weeks. Every single one said "Sorry no Duralloy, cant make a thing". Well they also say they are out of Berrylium copper too, but i cant say for sure how long that has been gone. So basically 1 resource needed by 2 professions, and 2 resources needed for composite/adv composite armor have been MIA for a long time on our server.
Its bad enough that the only droid we can sell is a probot. But without the ability to make armor for it, its worthless. So on Gorath, 2 professions are unable to make the only good items we can sell, and have been for over a month. Resources disappearing for overa month is just plain stupid. And just another slap in the face to a profession that is gimped enough as it is.
