Creature Harvesting Buff for Entertainers

Creature Harvesting Buff for Entertainers
  • Thread starter Thread starter Anubian
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Anubian

Proposal
Create a new entertainer buff that would improve Creature Harvesting skill.
Justification
This would put Creature Harvesting on an equal gameplay footing with Surveying since they would both have equal buffs that could be applied. Some testing may need to be done to find the buff% to keep it from going overboard.
Motivation
Bringing Creature Harvesting in line with Surveying seems appropriate as they are both resource collection systems. It functions well as-is, but Creature Harvesting requires more focus on the part of the player than Hand Sampling as it is an active collection system.
While both types of resource collection can be buffed through other means, Creature Harvesting does not have an applicable entertainer buff. Both resource collection types can already get bonuses from things like FS skills, foods, droids, etc.

Creature Harvesting does give more per harvest than Surveying does per sample, but it cannot be done while fully- or semi-afk like Hand Sampling. An applied entertainer buff would make it somewhat easier to harvest large amounts of creature resources during good spawns while also giving Entertainers a new option in their buff toolkit.

Whether or not this should apply to fish, eggs, milk, etc. could be debated, but I personally think that anything which falls under the Creature Harvesting skill as a whole should be impacted.
 
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Hey Anubian,

Thanks for taking the time to create this Player Voice. If you are comparing hand sampling to creature harvesting, its night and day.

Hand sampling is solo only, can be done semi afk, and with a 100% concentration spot with all buffs, a player may be able to get around 6-7k resources per hour.

Creature harvesting benefits from group play and comes from how many you kill rather than a static 30 second timer. You can farm via mission terminals. The yield potential is in the millions of units per hour.

It is by far the highest time-to-resource farming mechanic in the game. Adding an ent buff to the amount you get would be overkill.

I'm all for the idea of having more entertainer buffs. Perhaps something else in the scout line that can be buffed? or even CH? I will bow out of this one since the solution mostl likely resides in Social (entertainer)

thanks

-Ofo'gen
 
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