{"id":505,"date":"2017-07-21T14:46:23","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.empireinflames.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-07-21T14:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T19:46:23","slug":"friday-feature-7212017-creature-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.empireinflames.net\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"Friday Feature 7\/21\/2017 – Creature Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Empire in Flames galaxy, crafters are the ones who enable players \u00a0to handle more and more difficult content. They enable roleplayers to dress their characters appropriately for their given roles. Crafters create the buildings, the droids, the weapons, the armor, the furniture, the food, and so much more!<\/span><\/p>\n

However, none of those items can be crafted without resources. When I first began playing SWG, I was an NGE girl. I didn\u2019t really comprehend how in depth the crafting sandbox of pre-CU was until they brought in the Beastmasters. This time around, I\u2019m testing the waters of the chef. I\u2019ve learned that unlike crafting in other MMO\u2019s, the quality of the resource matters. That high quality resources only exist for a short window of time. Some resources still haven\u2019t spawned in the game for some of the crafters. *Thinks about lidium for the Droid Engineers* <\/span><\/p>\n

Resources can be mined from the ground, water vapor pulled from the air, creatures killed and harvested for hide, meat, and bones. Testing each of the resources, to see what is currently available in EiF is time consuming. If the information isn\u2019t shared, then everyone has to check on the resources they care about themselves. Galaxy Harvester<\/a> is a website, designed to track current and past resources. Up until a few weeks ago, players who checked resources could manually update the site. Other players would come along behind them and verify the resource.<\/span><\/p>\n

In EiF, we rarely had GH updated with everything at the same time. Halyn was able to use code another SWG developer shared with him to pull the resource information from EiF and automatically import it into GH. The import didn\u2019t however clear up the resources no longer in spawn, if they appeared on multiple planets. Ditchbuster, a prominent member of the EiF community, refined the script to clean up expired entries. <\/span><\/p>\n

Now every two days the script runs and GH is fully up-to-date. It\u2019s run at that interval, so players still have a reason to check for specific needed resources to give themselves an edge and to use the DE made Interplanetary Survey Devices and survey tools to run those checks. One of the updates to \u00a0ISDs is they give not just a list of what is in spawn, but also the stats. These upgrades to EiF\u2019s resource management has changed the lives of crafters in our community. <\/span><\/p>\n

It also created some confusion and consternation. We discovered there were shellfish to be harvested, some animals had horns\u2026 Wait what! There were a numbers of resources we didn\u2019t know existed before! Then learned not all did exist, but *could* exist if they were created. Ugh, things were getting complicated again. And just what creature did you hunt down to get that scaley hide from anyway?<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, two of our staff, Gail and Kelta took it upon themselves to identify which creature resources were actually available in EiF, as well as which creatures could be harvested to obtain the type of resource needed. Below is the spreadsheet they created! I hope this is as useful to you, as it is for me!<\/span><\/p>\n

Creature Resources<\/a><\/p>\n

Sandarie
\nCommunity Manager<\/p>\n

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