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I was just wondering if the post-cu Harvest droids actually worked. i know my pre-cu one is a load of rubbish. Any help would be appriciated.

Pre combat revamp (it's not an upgrade ) harvesting droids still work okay, except for master rangers. It seems that the extra +60 bonus, which takes you upto 150 harvesting, rather than the old max harvesting skill of 100, seems to mess up the yield rate.

So, if I'm right, the combat revamp didn't mess up harvesting droids it was the carrot of the solo-harvesting nerf (i.e. +60 harvesting for master ranger) which upset harvesting droids.

Message Edited by DaveG on 06-17-2005 01:16 AM

There's a bonus with the droid? from what I can tell it's more like 200 if the droid harvests vs 800 if you do (not real numbers, just general observation)

Well, not withstanding the master rangers among us (i.e. harvesting skill above 100), there is a general rule with droids that if their harvesting bonus is above 50 they will harvest more than you, but if their harvesting bonus is below 50 they will harvest less than you. Apologies for the overly long sentence!

A further caveat with harvesting droids is that since the solo-harvesting nerf (aka group bonus) introduction, you harvest less with a droid in a group than you do harvesting 'by hand' in a group. In other words the harvesting droid does not 'see' the group bonus.

Ok haven't pulled mine out in a while but...

The jump from the bonus of 100 to 150 didn't kill them, its just means you need one with a bonus of about 80+ (I was trying to find the magic number but things got weird) to get the same amount you would without it. My 111+ worked fine as soon as the Master Ranger bonus kicked in.

But that's solo, using them in a group will screw you. Well it was, droids have been getting fixed up so who knows. The problem is (or was) that not only are they not giving you the group bonus, but throwing in the old group penalty. It came out something like 57% less using the droid in a group of what it would have by hand, from a droid that was giving me 3% more solo.

I called mine last night to check the new levels, and he has dropped from level 18, >3000 health to level 1 with 100 health (even though he had armor but no combat module?! ). I dont think he will last very long if he gets aggro'd. Looks like he is staying safe and sound in my datapad for the time being

He shouldn't get agro if you don't group with him.

I'd check out the DE boards, 100 is just kinda... sad. Its going to be a bit before I can check on all my Droids. I'm scared, other than the HB on my harvest droid they where all capped stats wise...

Thanks for all the input. So i gather getting a droid with +114 harvesting would be good, but only if i solo.

If having him for doing foot work is what you want, that droid should serve you well.

Use "/tellpet (word that makes it harvest)" to get better range out of him, less 'lag' that way too.

It looks like droids (at least the combat ones) are taking the owner's level in groups.. there is some other weirdness too... Take a look at the DE boards and you'll be glad your a Ranger

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agent156 wrote:
Ok haven't pulled mine out in a while ...

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You can get arrested for that.