Ranger Archive

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:

How many missions, and which mission did you have to run to get this..I will try to acquire it tonight.

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It was given at the end of a series of 8-10 very easy subquests to 'survey a spot with at least 50% concentration of x', where you were given a new x after the successful completion of the previous subquest. It was given by a member of the new species (ithorian ?). Can't remember his name (Izarorth ?, naah) . He was placed in the NW part of the village.

I'm not sure that you can get it immediately because of the phases...i did these quests last week when the phasing was once every 8 hrs & don't know which phase they belong to. Also, the organics survey device is one of the possible awards, so you may need to do the quests multiple times (with different chars?) to get it.

To answer another posters question, it's a device not a schematic.

I am sorry if this is old news, but:

I was trying the new force sensitive quests on TC2, and by mistake I started doing the survey quests instead of the combat oriented ones that I wanted.

In any case, when I finished the quests and unlocked the FS slot, I was given an 'organic survey device'.

The funny thing is, it can survey and sample _any_ organic, including, for example, meat. As an experiment, I sampled some carnivore meat with it & got 8 units of meat. I think that is new, right?

Granted, sampling is just that...doesn't give enough resources for large scale crafting but still, it kind of infinges on hunters' territory. Plus, maybe organic harvestors can follow the survey devices...

Any thoughts? Potential impact on scouts/rangers?

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Phenix1050 wrote:

hmmm calc...I was told that someone screamed fire in a crowded theater....but....um...i'm kinda dissapointed by the so-called pandamonium.

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The funny thing is, it can survey and sample _any_ organic, including, for example, meat.

I will assume allowing you to sample meat is a bug. (I'm not sure it's economy destroying though.)

I would, however, love to be able to see the resource maps to know the best spot to kill creatures at for harvesting.

I think I read somewhere that they had in beta organic (hides,bones,meat) harvestors in the beta but they really made the market for scouts dry and they took them out, as far as this device is concerned.... I don't see the big deal, If anything it helps us since you probably will be able to buy it off a jedi it slap it in a survey droid.... I mean were you ever worried about the artisan that surveying on your harvestors? No, because he could never beat the amount you pull from even personals.... No big deal to worry about... Calm down...

im going to bite my lip some but..

>>Plus, maybe organic harvestors can follow the survey devices...
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Ahh, heres my organic survey device in action.

Travel around a bit.
Spot a unusual critter and examine it.
"hmmmm, i wonder."
BAAAAAMMM
/harvest hide.
"blech, crap."
BAAAAAAAM
/harvest meat
"hmmm, not bad, think ill havest more of that and see what it fetchs me"

Ok, im chomping at the bit...

easy.. easy.. must take it easy....


>>on to another planet instead of waisting time trying to find the creature, also ive tested it ... the sample is only like 4-6 units nothing major
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*mutters something about removing the act of scouting from scouting professions*

Ok, im going to leave this thread now and not return for a bit before i explode