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Thread: The Creature Harvest Droid User's Manual
buzzlo wrote:
My question is I : do MR see a difference in there outcome, because I dont and my HD is a 114 made by OCKTY!! I mean I get an extra 2 or three units. I have experimented alot with this and it doesnt seem worth it!! IMO
Yeah but after a play session where you've hunted 500-1000 critters.... the math adds up. However, if you're not happy with your droid, I'll take it off your hands for a few credits. I've only got a 109 and would love something higher.
buzzlo wrote:
My question is I : do MR see a difference in there outcome, because I dont and my HD is a 114 made by OCKTY!! I mean I get an extra 2 or three units. I have experimented alot with this and it doesnt seem worth it!! IMO
This time solo grouped so I can get the big boy lairs.
buzzlo wrote:My question is I : do MR see a difference in there outcome, because I dont and my HD is a 114 made by OCKTY!! I mean I get an extra 2 or three units. I have experimented alot with this and it doesnt seem worth it!! IMO
I see a difference with my droid as a Master Ranger. The thing to remember is the increase will be a percentage of what ever you are harvesting. If you are harvisting 40-50 units per creature, you will only see a small 2-4 unit increase. It is when you are harvesting off of the big game where you will notice a larger increase.
And to answer the question above, any droid would work as a harvesting droid, but not all base models carry the same ammount of modules, and some are faster moving than others. Most people get R3 droids since they hold the most modules of any droid (6) and can move pretty well over land. The more modules you can get into a droid, the larger it's harvest rating.
Eclipse has a DE that made some R3's totalling 119%. btw, you MUST have at least 5 perfect harvest modules for 100%. This one on Elcipse is the only one I have seen able to come close. Not likely that you will get a droid with a spare slot after all that and worthy of use.
After using the droid for a while on Dant last night I stopped using it sense the server lag was so bad. On low demand times it was worth the extra 19% but I could be more efficient harvesting myself on high lag times. You cannot cache up harvest commands, which is a shame. You MUST wait for the droid to finsh before targeting the next and issuing the harvest command, or it simply does not hear you. Would be nice if you issued the harvest command w/o a target that the droid would harvest all the qualifying bodies it sees.
Fred_Skinner wrote:
Eclipse has a DE that made some R3's totalling 119%. btw, you MUST have at least 5 perfect harvest modules for 100%. This one on Elcipse is the only one I have seen able to come close. Not likely that you will get a droid with a spare slot after all that and worthy of use.
After using the droid for a while on Dant last night I stopped using it sense the server lag was so bad. On low demand times it was worth the extra 19% but I could be more efficient harvesting myself on high lag times.
when you say 119% do you mean it's harvest rating? cuz the rating of the droid isn't a percentage, just clarifying cuz it can be confusing to some people who think that a 119 droid will harvest 19% more than you to which isn't the case.
You cannot cache up harvest commands, which is a shame. You MUST wait for the droid to finsh before targeting the next and issuing the harvest command, or it simply does not hear you. Would be nice if you issued the harvest command w/o a target that the droid would harvest all the qualifying bodies it sees.
that would make droids sooo much more useful if they were "smarter". Like how you put a pet on guard and it automaticly decides to attack something, it'd be great to put a droid on "harvest" and it knows to go out and harvest anything that you kill.