Ranger Archive
Thread: Preliminary Droid Tests
RotorofCorRng wrote:
Ok, I see the point on the + spread.
To the other point of NOT using an aide. It would be ridiculous for me to not use a harvester and try to compete with some one using even just a personal.
Ah, now there is an anology you might understand. Scouts + Uberness are like a guy with 10 lots all using 4BER personals while your single heavy on a cheap 7BER and crappy a maintainance of 300cr and takes 10 lots to erect (Master Ranger + one combat master).They even get to PvP. Lucky for you that Heavies are 2 lots, 60 Maintainace and much better BER then a personal. We would like a BER increase, thank you very much
. Less maintanaince would be nice too .
mmaughme wrote:Question: What happens if you have two harvesting droids out? Can they both harvest? Can you effectively double your harvest by doing this? Might be worth giving a try...
AFAIK you cannot have 2 droids out.
So, try, I think is not going to happen.
I'm pretty sure DEs and CH with Management 3 or Master can have multiple droids out. I may be wrong (as I'm not at home to test it), but I would have sworn I saw my guild's MDE wandering around with two droids in tow.
Message Edited by mmaughme on 04-13-2004 03:04 PM
Ok, so if the Droid gives you the BER increase you wouldnt use it? That is what some are saying. 'Droid you say? Blah! I'll skin 'em with my bare hands matey'.
Only if the increase is high enough to make a difference. Note my bit on the Veghash. Would you buy a heavy at BER 5 over a personal with BER4?
RotorofCorRng wrote:
We would like a BER increase, thank you very much . Less maintanaince would be nice too.
Ok, so if the Droid gives you the BER increase you wouldnt use it? That is what some are saying. 'Droid you say? Blah! I'll skin 'em with my bare hands matey'.
Thanks calc you are the man. I also really hope this is based on the controllers harvesting skill. Personally, I'm still up in the air on whether I like the idea at all. Depends on how well they thought it out, and how well implemented it. And as hard working as soe is, and as much as I like this game, they have yet to impress me with new content like this, cross profession especially.
Here is a test I want to know the answer to Calc. If someone harvests something, solo, so getting 100%, do they get more or less "tatal" resources if grouped with the droid and having it harvest? Since grouped it will drop the players and droids harvest to 60%. Also, do you need to be grouped with it to do this? If it can still do it even if not grouped, then it should act like everything else, and no one else can harvest after the first harvest. What I mean is, if I'm not grouped with the droid, no matter if it's me or the droid that harvests first, the next to harvest should get nothing.
Hmm I guess I finally caught on to what the comments meant about no longer Hunt Master. Well, it means the title. Bah, I like master hunter. But if it has to be Tracker, then at least make it MASTER Tracker. I mean it was MASTER Hunter. Makes sence, right?
Can I take my existing droid and have someone add another mod to it for this?
And on the trap throwing, when you say only one stack, does that mean one total stack of one type of trap? So basically I can put maximum one stack of 5 traps into my droid, and max it will ever hold at one time is 5 traps? If that's so, that is completely worthless to us. As it is we complain that we have to keep dropping a stack of traps into a hotkey. How in the name of the jedi does this help us? It doesn't.
And my biggest gripe is this. These kinds of features should be primarily to help the scouts and rangers, and secondly to those that are not primarily scouts and rangers. I know you can only use this if you have it, say novice scout, but as it looks so far, it's primarily meant for dabblers. It appears to be primarily for those that just have "some" scout to make it so they can harvest more. These kinds of things that go cross professions should be primarily meant to help the profession the skills are being taken from. And then others secodarily. In this case DE should be seondary, to give them something else people want to buy. But if you take away from another profession to do that, it's called a nerf. And it makes that other profession unbalanced. Plain and simple, this isa good idea at first glance, and could be if was first thought to help us true scouts/rangers, and second give the DE something people want.
Message Edited by Calculus_Entropy on 04-13-2004 09:18 PM
acecjast wrote:
can the droid harvest to its inventory if it has storage or does it automatically go to your inventory?
if your getting out harvested as master rifle/ranger your doing something wrong.
The droids harvest goes to your inventory.
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
TC is flakey, so I didn't get much testing done but here is what I saw:
Trapping: Stick a stack of traps in it, program the command and say the command to throw a trap. It appears we got our trap launcher. I did not test range (I just thought if it, darn it). You cannot insert more than one stack of traps at a time (so adhesive mesh is still in stacks of 2). I did not see if you can remove a stack and then place a new stack in it. The droid takes a little bit 5-10 second to throw the trap, but this DOES NOT count as your own action, so you keep fighting.
Harvesting: You program the command to harvest and pick a resource (random, meat, hide, or bone). The droid does run over to the kill and harvests for you, but you can not harvest after it has. I still need to do a lot of testing on this, butI thought it was important to get this out to you guys.
Iwill do a more thorough test tomorrow night if TC is a bit more stable. My first impression is that I really like the droids!
Are you suggesting that this "Trap Droid" is a RANGER ONLY droid?!!! ( i believe its novice scout)
And the harvest droid is novice scout too.
You guys should be up in arms.