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james t kirk
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survey skill question and extractors

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hi all,

so far my survey skill is at 403. there are times when I'm looking in vp for plots to mine but it looks like there's nothing there. if there's a --- where the name of the resource should be does that mean I need to increase the skill? I can't remember lol it's been so long since I had to mess with that skill.
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On that spot it means that the resource has expired. You can try back in the next day or later on in the day perhaps, to see if a new resource has sprung up.
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higer skill for extractors is 225 (byzyliam ore), (not sure about expanse).
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what about nebular harvesting?
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You need an absolute minimum of 175 survey just to launch a nebula harvester.
However you will only find common stuff (oxygen/copper/traylon/reactive/etc) at that level.

Common wisdom and rumor had it, that the higher your survey skill, the better your chances
were of landing a "good" resource. Supposedly 400 for "occasional" chance up to
around 550 for "most-of-the-time" good finds. Note "good" includes dark matter but also some
of the special ores (kallysite, pachysite, prevtonium, argonight, etc).

Just for note: my survey is 824 and I still hit common resources about 1 in every 4 or 5 deployments.
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wow and when did you stop finding new stuff after upping that skill?
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Not sure what you mean.
Around 550 I was pretty much getting all of the better resources, most of the time.
You will always find a resource whenever you launch a harvester, raising the skill level
just affects the frequency of "better" resources over common resources.
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ok so is there a point whereby you stop increasing the level or not? I mean is it worth lets say pushing the survey skill over 1000 for example?
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I don't believe so, actually 550 or 600 is probably all you would need.
I don't remember why I raised my level higher, but I don't think it was related to harvesters.
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right thanks for that.
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