Droid Engineer Archive
Thread: Harvester Droid Problems
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Maisland
Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:41 pm
#1
I have had 2 problems develope with my harvester droids recently. The first is a bad bug, the second is a concern I have that is related to a recent change to harvesting in a group.
1) The bug
I have /bugged this in game and reported it in dev threads but have not seen any indication that it has been recognized. This bug is happening both with a brand new droid and with older droids that used to work just fine. What happens is this:
Sometime between 75% power and actual "low power" my droid will stop harvesting from creatures. It is not actually at "low power" because it responds to commands. I will send it to a creature corpse and order it to harvest, and it will go over to the corpse as if to do just that, but I get no resources, no xp from the harvesting, and no message that my droid has successfully harvested from the corpse. If at this point, I recharge it, it still will not work. I have to a) recharge it, b) store it for a period of time and c) reset the harvest interest. This is an annoyance to say the least.
2) Droid Nerf when Harvesting in a Group
I was out doing faction missions with some friends and we came upon some large creatures, so we stopped to kill and harvest from them. Since we had been fighting NPCs, I did not have my Harvester droid out and as we were in a hurry, I decided to forgo the benefit I usually get from using him, so I harvested by hand and (instead of the penalty I used to get) got a bonus to my harvest. This made me decide to see what kind of benefit my droid would get (as the previous penalty had applied to him too). So I pulled him out, but didn't group him, and sent him to harvest from the next corpse. He got about half the resources that I had gotten harvesting by hand. So I thought, if I grouped him, he should get the bonus. Nope, I could still get more resources by harvesting by hand than by using my droid. I promptly stored him and have not used him since, partly because I was getting more stuff without him and partly because of the bug I describe above.
Note: from what I could tell, it looks like the old group harvesting penalty STILL applies to Harvester Droids. The difference between what I was getting and what my droid was getting was not much better than the old group harvesting penalty used to be when compared to harvesting in a group vs harvesting by yourself.
I figured that since you are the ones who make the droids, that these issues should be brought to your attention. I love my harvester droids and don't want to have to stop using them.
joaquim
Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:39 pm
#2
I have had that first problem happen to me too! Didnt realize what caused it and CS ticket on it was useless as usual. Thanks for workaround. Jeniden if you agree its deserving could you point this out to the appropriate dev/s. Thanks 
Nell2ThaIzzay
Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:45 pm
#3
As far as the 1st problem goes... I dunno if you've tried this, as it has happened to me as well... sometimes you need to just give the harvest command a couple extra times. Annoying? Sure.
I dunno if you've tried that, and if you have and it still doesn't work, then I dunno. But I have had that happen to me as well, and all it took was reissuing the command.
cl0kwerq
Sat Mar 05, 2005 1:34 am
#4
The Second Bug reported here is Live, active, and completely nullifies the point of a harvestor droid.
It's true, I bugged it.
Thanks again devs - you "fixed" the pet group bug, and destroyed my harvestor droid.....any other things you'd like to "fix"? Maybe just make it so whenever anyone starts it's at 0, 0 no matter what? That'd certainly encourage grouping....
but anyhow the harvestor droid bug is real and it's there...don't believe me try for yourself......
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