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make sure it has at least one combat module (or is a probe droid or fugitive tracker droid). If it does not fit any of these criteria, your droid is effectively a coward, and will run when confronted.

Theres a bit of a trick that I found works very well most of the time.

Simply dont group with your droid and it will not receive creature aggro. When it is grouped with you it receives its "share" of group agro, despite the fact that its not actually attacking.

-Gooney

Ok, I have a droid filled with harvest modules. I've been using it to hunt/obtain creature resources. I'll use it to harvest while I'm fighting the creatures from the lair, but the droid often comes under attack. This makes the droid run away. And run it does. It goes for a distance of about 200m then disappears. I group with it, and once it disappears it somehow ends up back in my datapad. To get it, I have to call it again. Because of this, I have found it a pain to use and havent bothered using it. Anyone got any ideas?

Also, I noticed the batteries seem to need replacing even when it still says it more than 50% full (cant remember the exact percentage right now). When it hits that percentage, it doesnt do anything nor respond, when I put in a new battery, it works again!?!?!

Ato

Yes, yet another confirmation that you spend more time chasing and yelling commands at the droids than they actually spend harvesting.

Yanno, killer/tank droids don't run. Killers can save your life, as the command attack lasts after you're incapped, droid fights on while you snooze, no DB for you. Killers drop your time spent on a lair by more than 50% in many cases - more harvest in less time.

Harvest droids without a combat module are sissies. Not grouping with them avoids the "group aggro" but there is always a chance that the creature will aggro it anyhow - "And they're off, cabbage is ahead, hose is running and tomato is trying to ketchup...meanwhile the harvestor droid has a strong lead and won't be seen for 10 minutes"

Get a killer and quit running to find your droid.

JB

i still find it's easier to have a tank droid and just pick off the critters attacking him, than to use the harvest droid for harvesting.

Then again, i mostly depends on your professions. If you're a rifleman, the harvest module would be more beneficial.

Maybe, maybe not. I'm still harvesting faster using either a lvl10 BE pet or a R3 Advanced combat droid as a Rifleman. Using either of them to tank plus the right combo of specials & regular attacks, I can take down a lair QUITE fast, and get in to harvest everything while they're either doing tricks to heal mind or autorepairing, then we quickly move on , rinse & repeat. As long as the spawn system is working, I found I was able to take down 2, 3, 4, sometimes 5 lairs using the droid or the BE pet and maximize my veghash usage while I was grinding rifles XP. As a Ranger / Rifleman, I still don't see the benefit to me of investing in a harvest droid. Using either of the tanks, I can clear more lairs faster, which ultimately gets me a bigger yield. Kind of like the debate over Master Ranger vs combat stacker w/novice Scout or a few boxes in scout, and how I can pull more per carcass, but they can get FAR more carcasses in the same amount of time and in many cases, out-harvest me. The extra few seconds it takes me to run in and harvest the pile of bodies after we take down a lair ultimately turns out to be inconsequential.