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Thread: Harvester droid macro...
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Shock-N-Awe
Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:26 am
#1
Anyone have a handy dandy harvester droid macro I can bum off of you (one that will summon the droid and have it harvest the target)? Im having problems with getting the silly droid to harvest for me.
Gavvot
Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:02 am
#2
I don't think you can summon the droid from the datapad with a macro yet.
There is a change that might be come soon that will allow you to put the droid from datapad to your toolbar.
Now, for the actual harvest macro, I would suggest ask to the scout or ranger forum.
We can build them, but we cannot use them (well most of the DE can't, as you need novice scout).
There is a change that might be come soon that will allow you to put the droid from datapad to your toolbar.
Now, for the actual harvest macro, I would suggest ask to the scout or ranger forum.
We can build them, but we cannot use them (well most of the DE can't, as you need novice scout).
Straker_Atrella
Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:14 am
#3
Here is a harvest macro. It will fill your screen with spam though, but it will harvest what you kill, PLUS stop the droid from running away.
First, select what type of thing you want harvested, Meat, Hide, or Bone.
Now set your "harvest command" for this macro, let's say you use H.
Name you Macro Harvest.
Now put this into the macro.
/tellpet H;
/pause 1;
/macro Harvest;
Now when you kill something he will harvest it, plus any other corpses you select.
Be aware though that the upcoming macro changes will probably stop this macro from working.
Gavvot
Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:18 am
#4
I may be wrong, but I think tellpet don't work with 1 letter command.
so /tellpet ha might be better.
so /tellpet ha might be better.
Straker_Atrella
Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:48 am
#5
Hmmm, maybe, that's the macro I give though, and never heard any complaints, I will check that though.
Bladius
Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:00 pm
#6
Can someone explain the benefit of a Harvest droid with 107 harvest capability over a Novice Scout with 35? I have tried to experiment a bit and will run some tests larger creatures but here is what I found so far and am not to happy with my 70k purchase:
1. If the droid harvests I cannot harvest from the same corpse and vice versa.
2. I harvest with a 35 Creature Harvest rating and get 4 units of meat from a creature. (Nuna)
3. The droid with a 107 CH rating harvests 5 units from the same type of creature. (Nuna)
Now is it just that a Nuna has a max harvest amount or should the droid be harvestimg 2-3 more than me?
Gavvot
Thu Aug 05, 2004 1:05 pm
#7
1. Intended
Increase of resource harvested is based on your skill and the droid skill.
For a novice scout it's about a 20% increase, so you got lucky in fact.
Nuna just don't have alot of resource.
On the overall, a customer told me that him, with only novice scout during a whole hunt was able to harvest almost as much as his misses that is master scout.
Doesn't soud very right, bit I think that maybe in a group with the current system it is possible.
Both solo, Master scout without droid will harvest more than novice with a droid, even at 107.
Well that's how I understood it.
Increase of resource harvested is based on your skill and the droid skill.
For a novice scout it's about a 20% increase, so you got lucky in fact.
Nuna just don't have alot of resource.
On the overall, a customer told me that him, with only novice scout during a whole hunt was able to harvest almost as much as his misses that is master scout.
Doesn't soud very right, bit I think that maybe in a group with the current system it is possible.
Both solo, Master scout without droid will harvest more than novice with a droid, even at 107.
Well that's how I understood it.
Shock-N-Awe
Thu Aug 05, 2004 3:03 pm
#8
Thanks for the clarification on the droids. I got that stubborn POS working after a little playing around lastnight and it is working well now that Ive got the hang of it. My only gripe is the 15-20 second wait right after combat ends to summon the thing since I put it away when I travel to a new mission. I was harvesting rasps (high OQ avian meat on talus/Ahazi right now) and was only getting about 4 to 5 units per harvest but once I got it working it went up to 11 which was nice (im a master scout with a 106 or somethingrated harvester droid).
Thrush
Thu Aug 05, 2004 4:11 pm
#9
I am a master ranger and I have a nice harvesting droid. I love the little guy. His name is Spot.
Before I hit a lair I send him in to the critters with the "follow" command. When he gets close to the targets I tell him to "stay".
After I kill something I hit my Macro toolbar key:
/tellpet Fetch
/emote points at the %TT and lets out a low whistle.
/pause 1;
/tellpet Stay
This sends the droid to the now dead cirtter, harvests the pre-determined resource, and parks him by it's corpse.
This is 100% better than walking in from rifle range over and over and over and over and over... ad naseum.
--Thrush--
Ethereal-
Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:36 am
#10
So let me get this straight. The only thing a harvester droid will harvest is bone/hide/meat from animals, but they won't help you operate your harvesters for you correct?
Straker_Atrella
Fri Aug 06, 2004 8:05 pm
#11
Also remember DON'T group the droid with you.
He wont get agroed as much and he should harvest more.
Gavvot
Sat Aug 07, 2004 12:10 am
#12
Correct.
The full name of the module is Creature Harvest module, and you need novice scout to use it.
Nothing to do with harvester.
Maintenance module can help with harvester, but are bugged.
They allow you to pay maintenance of all your strucure from distance (other planet with module level 3).
Only money maintenance so not that great.
Current bug is that if you redeed a structure before removing it from the maintenance run list of the droid the droid is broken and cannot pay maintenance anymore.
The full name of the module is Creature Harvest module, and you need novice scout to use it.
Nothing to do with harvester.
Maintenance module can help with harvester, but are bugged.
They allow you to pay maintenance of all your strucure from distance (other planet with module level 3).
Only money maintenance so not that great.
Current bug is that if you redeed a structure before removing it from the maintenance run list of the droid the droid is broken and cannot pay maintenance anymore.
Message Edited by Gavvot on 08-06-2004 09:10 PM
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