Idea for new survey tool
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While discussing potential QOL updates with Guild Mates who mainly play on other servers, I came up with an idea I like enough I want to suggest it for Evolve.
While surveying for a good spot for a good resource can sometimes take a significant amount of time, I'm wondering if a new type of seeker droid could be programmed and put in game that would help speed that process up.
The survey tool would still be used to find the exact best spot, but you could have a variant of the BH seeker droid that could be programmed to find a minimum % for a specific resource on a specific planet and report back directional updates...similar to how the BH seeker droids send location updates for BH targets.Would there be interest for that, and could it be implemented?
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I personally like that idea, and if it is something that could be added, suggest giving that ability to the interplanetary survey droid. As of now, that one isn't that useful in my opinion, it just gives a list of what's on the planet, and not location or % amounts.
Or like you said, another variant of the seeker droid, but for resources. Either way be a nice QOL addition for sure.
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The ISD droids/reports are broken. Some don't give email (at least to me) and others (chemical for example) return results for all planets on one report and the format is broken so it doesn't export to swgaide at all.
My preference would be the seeker droid variant simply because it should be consumable and provide another, admittedly limited, source of income from crafted items. -
While discussing potential QOL updates with Guild Mates who mainly play on other servers, I came up with an idea I like enough I want to suggest it for Evolve.
While surveying for a good spot for a good resource can sometimes take a significant amount of time, I'm wondering if a new type of seeker droid could be programmed and put in game that would help speed that process up.
The survey tool would still be used to find the exact best spot, but you could have a variant of the BH seeker droid that could be programmed to find a minimum % for a specific resource on a specific planet and report back directional updates...similar to how the BH seeker droids send location updates for BH targets.Would there be interest for that, and could it be implemented?
@dolanolos This is a fantastic suggestion, and it's one we've actually been discussing internally already so it's great to see the community independently arriving at a similar idea! The comparison to the BH seeker droid's directional updates is a smart parallel, and it captures the core of what we've been kicking around.
The concept we've discussed would build on the survey droid that players can already craft: rather than pinpointing an exact best spot the way the survey tool does, this droid would report back the highest concentration percentage available for a given resource on that planet. From there, additional droids could be sent out to help narrow down the general region, with the standard survey tool still doing the fine-tuning work to land on the exact best location.
We don't have a timeline to share yet, but knowing there's real interest from players helps as we continue shaping this idea. Thanks for putting the thought into this, and please keep the suggestions coming!
Best,
Orton
Evolve Community Manager
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