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Thanks alot for the info. I'll put this into my current collection of data points and see what we've got.

Thanks for this info. I have been selling the snot out of these things, then read on here from some Master Rangers that they are not worth the money. I think your data greatly contradicts this.

Thanks for the numbers. My results don't quite back up the idea that the droid skill is equivalent to player skill though. I think its because your tests were only done with one player skill level. Get a master ranger do the same tests and the droid will harvest more for him than it did for you. From what I've seen its something like 25-30% increase for a novice scout, 20% increase for maser scout, and 10% increase for master ranger for ~105 rated droids. These are rough numbers, but most of the data I've seen backs this up.

Master Ranger tested Harvester 104 Droid on Naritus

+ 15 % harvesting yield over normal Master Ranger yield

So basically it seems it does not matter if its a +96, + 104 or +117 droid .. it seems it has to be higher than the skill of the player to grant a +15%ish bonus. And NO, a master scout with a +104 droid does NOT collect as much as a Master Ranger.

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Delos

Sorry to bother you foine Droid making people - but having bought one of these harvestor modules I can't get the damn thing to work.

Any chance that you could issue some instructions?

I can set the resources to harvest, but when it comes to getting it to actually activate and gather the meat or whatever the thing just sits there - I'm guessing that it is the set target harvest comand that is the secret, but am having no joy using it.

Thanks for the help.

Talst

You first have to progam the command to harvest into it. On the radial menu program droid then the next thing you say will be the programmed command, for example, program droid and I say Harvest. Harvest is now the programmed command.

Now I go out and kill a bunny. I target the bunny's dead body and say "Harvest" the droid will go out and harvest the bunny while I kill another one.

Does this make sense?

Talst- I believe the answers you seek are in the Focus thread for this type of module. There is a sticky post with links to all the focus threads for all the new modules, at the top of this forum.

Regarding this Harvester test. the numbers are nice, but the conclusions are a bit specious. Basically here is how the droid's functioning breaks down:

harvest= the amount a player would harvest based on their skill.

dharvest= the amount harvested by the droid

rating= the rating of the harvest droid.

If rating < skill, then dharvest < harvest. There have been some reports (unverified) that when the difference is greater than a certain amount (40 points, iirc) then the droid will harvest a LOT less than the player, but unless that amount is exceeded the difference is only a few units (as was borne out by the test above).

If rating > skill, then dharvest= harvest+bonus. The bonus based on the simple fact that the droid exceeds you, but the amount added seems to be fixed at about 20%. There have been no hard numbers on whether a droid that exceeds the scout by a certain amount will grant a larger bonus.

Message Edited by psikobunny on 05-28-2004 04:54 AM

Had a novice scout and a master ranger test a 102 R3 harvestor for me. The results were that at just novice scout taken the scout was able to harvest only 30 hides less from a 53 level vorton then the master ranger. A rather large improvement from her normal harvest.

From the data that I've gathered it appears that the relationship between the droid rating/player rating to amt droid takes/amt player takes is logarithmic. Unfortunately I'm missing some data in the droid rating/player rating 1.5 to 2.0 range. So I'm not entirely sure on that but it fits so far. Once I get some actual data in that range I'll go hunt down a copy of matlab with the curve fitting toolbox and get it to tell me what the exact equation relating the two is. (Yes I'm lazy)

Amen Psikobunny - If we can make level 6 med or storage modules to get max ratings with less space used, we should be able to make a level 1-3 harvesting module.

The only thing that I don't agree with using this method of space saving modules for is auto-repair. Either your droid is an effective repair droid or it is not.