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I was browsing the artitech forum and some one brought up that the creature harvestors that were in beta may be brought back. This is a bad idea and will remove any need for a scout to get hide/bone/meat

please tell me that their dev is not considering bring these back

Kasp,

I certainly haven't heard that, and if I had, I would defintely be against it, unless those harvesters were usable only by high level scouts as part of my "furrier/trapper" type idea. Otherwise I agree - to give archtects a means of obtaining large amounts of hides (other than by doing so themselves with the Scout skill) puts a significant dent in our ability to make money. And monkeys.

B

How is a creature harvester supposed to work? Do they set it up and it catches creatures and harvests them?

Do they carry it on them and have to use it on a every carcass?

B,

I believe the way that it worked was the former - you set it up, and it captured animals and skinned them.

Having not been a Beta tester, I am only going off of what I recall from the previous boards. Can we get a confirmation on this from a Beta guy?

B

Man that would totally suck!! A machine that harvests for them? Why even have scouts. Glad they got rid of it and lets hope it doesn't come back.

I agree that this would be part of a higher skill level. It would take great knowledge and skill to develop a machine that can catch and harvest animals.

As far as artisans are concerned, creature harvesting should only be available by gaining the necessary scout XP. Otherwise, why wouldn't scouts have the ability to do their artisantrades without proper skills? I'm sure there will be enough scouts out there trying to sell creature harvesters for credits.

Chekula

Ugh........ this is a horribly, aweful, icky nasty, blechy idea! Mass harvesting of animals like this imo goes against everthing a scout is, and has worked for. I really hope this isn't enacted on *any* level for *any* level scout!

Kali

Kali,

I don't think we need to worry about that - there are other things in the works that could upset the current market for hides and bone. The Devs aren't going to want to fiddle with this anymore than they have to.

B

::wiping off the little beads of sweat from my brow after that semi-exhausting hissy-fit::

phew. : )

Kali