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Thread: BIG nerf in Publish 8!

IForgotMyName
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:04 pm
#1
Added Creature Harvester Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any character to program and control an equipped droid to advance on the look-at target of the player and harvest the resources on the creature. The player can preset the droid to harvest one of the three types: meat, hide or bone. Or the player can just let the droid pick a random resource type.


Need i say more?



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IForgotMyName
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:07 pm
#2
oh nevermind marksman corrospondent said novice scout needed. whew!



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ByygPapa
Mon Apr 12, 2004 5:43 pm
#3

maybe its just me....but why in the world would you need a droid to harvest for you?


if you have it out in a fight it'll prob get whacked by a stray aoe, o/w you have to camp and call your droid to come out and harvest for you?


am i missing something?





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selfdefeated
Mon Apr 12, 2004 6:14 pm
#4
I thought the trap-flinging droid sounded pretty cool...



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DeltaXi65
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:06 pm
#5

Guys,


Not a nerf. Need to have Novice Scout.


Everything will be fine. You don't think I'd let them pull something like that, do you?


B





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CapricornONE
Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:15 pm
#6



  • Added Creature Harvester Module to the DE skill tree: This module will allow any character to program and control an equipped droid to advance on the look-at target of the player and harvest the resources on the creature. The player can preset the droid to harvest one of the three types: meat, hide or bone. Or the player can just let the droid pick a random resource type.





    • Two questions...



    1. If you have the 'scout droid' grouped with you will you both be able to harvest the reasource?

    2. How much will the droid harvest per corpse? lots? please say lots...

    Message Edited by CapricornONE on 04-12-2004 09:15 PM



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    DeltaXi65
    Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:27 pm
    #7

    Gang,


    My understanding of how this droid is going to work is simply that it's going to make harvesting more convenient, rather than allowing you to harvest more or above your skill level.


    I will be on Test Center testing this out as soon as I can and I'll report back my findings.


    B





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    JBMat
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 4:36 am
    #8

    Stupid idea, the droid, for two main reasons -


    1. Droid cost money to run and repair. Never mind buy. Harvesting is free... like the maskscent and camo issue.... duh.


    2, Grouped harvest is 60%. Yeah, I will give 40% up to have a droid do it. I macro my harvests, /harvesthide works well. Throw in the /loot to the macro, you miss nothing. He11, I use it to loot NPCs.


    And I am still not convinced you have to be a novice scout, the pub notes say "any character". TH and his moron minions are sneaky enough to slip this in, watch and see.


    Hakai, spike them rice balls bro... I think we are getting shafted here, may as well be drunk


    JB




    DeltaXi65
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 5:35 am
    #9

    JB,


    I've asked TH to update the patch notes.


    Guys - c'mon. Do you seriously, and I mean SERIOUSLY think that I could let something like that happen without me raising holy hell?


    B





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    earlmarinus
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 6:53 am
    #10

    Delta I am glad you are not going to let the developers pull a nerf off like that because honestly when I read that I was like man Scout is totally worthless now to me. I use scout to do alot of my harvesting for my other toon which is a armorsmith!



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    Julak
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 8:44 am
    #11
    delta, its good to know that you will raise hell for us. i believe that adding this droid harvester will only drop the scout poulations, na dthe demand for resoures will be soorly diminished. i agree with otheres when syaing that it should be reserved for higher ended scouts and or rangers you know?



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    GeminiMoon
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:46 am
    #12
    This makes no sense at all. "Current look at target"...if your already targeting the corpse, what's the difference in pressing a custom macro of /loot;/harvest meat and whatever command you have to issue to make the driod harvest "for you".


    It's more hassle I think, yet if it automatically harvested for you all thecorpses in a 15m radiuswether it be by a single command like /droidradialharvest meat then make it loop ourselves, it would be much more useful. Does it add to your creature harvesting mod? I would like to see a 50% increase to your current skill (as opposed to +50 Creature Harvesting, which would make a noob "overpowered").


    If there's no +Creture Harvesting mod,can we stack resources? Like I harvest meat from the corpse, my droid harvests more meat, or even bone or hide?


    I hate these holes they leave in their explainations that leave room for speculation and assumptions...




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    Hakai
    Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:52 am
    #13

    i like the idea of keeping it up on the tree so you would at least have to have earned the right to use it.


    i mean, why get something that will be more useful when you don't know what you're doing?





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