[Suggestion] Survey Stack Multiplier Option for Crafters

SilverBride · July 18

I don't consider gathering surveys a grind. It's only the running back and forth that feels unnecessary and tedious.

LunaFlora · July 18

i think it's a good idea.

at least with add-ons I can now easily find Survey locations with them being on the map,
but having to run back and forth to respawn Survey resources is frustrating.

Number_51 · July 18

I'd gladly forego the plentiful harvest bonus if I could harvest any survey map from one of six different furnishing items, one for each craft (that I would undoubtedly have to buy from the crown store), placed in my homes. Even if I still had to harvest one at a time.

joergino · July 18

This is something I have been asking for for several years. Please do this.

katanagirl1 · July 19

As mentioned earlier this is a QoL improvement that is very reasonable. I would guess the reason it has not been implemented is that it requires more work than we think it will on the part of the devs.

Personally, I’m happy to just do them every day since my main character’s inventory space is limited. I used to have bank space issues but the furnishing vault cleared out half my bank when I put the antiquities I had dug up in there. I have no desire to fill it up with freaking surveys. If I don’t do them now I won’t have time later.

Regardless, I support the idea.

EDIT: also, I do daily crafting writs on my characters so I have mats, master writs to complete, writ vouchers, and some leftover master writs to sell and make some gold. Why is using all that trait research, motif knowledge, and time to level up crafting skills being greedy?

lillybit · July 20

Back in the day when assistants were first introduced, there was an exploit where people would go to the survey site, bank the survey, harvest, retrieve it from the banker and repeat. So they changed it to have surveys immediately despawns if you bank them.

They already have the capability to react in real time. Adding an instant repawn or a button to trigger it would be a nice alternative to appease those dead set against this.

Personally I dont think harvesting multiples would have a big long term effect on game economy anyway - if anything it'll encourage hoarding them, so maybe even people who do them regularly will start holding on to them a bit longer

joergino · July 20

lillybit wrote: »

Personally I dont think harvesting multiples would have a big long term effect on game economy anyway - if anything it'll encourage hoarding them, so maybe even people who do them regularly will start holding on to them a bit longer

I don't think so either. I know that I never sell any resources and keep them in my craft bag instead.

Yökarhu · July 21

darkriketz wrote: »

Yökarhu wrote: »

That can't really be the solution. "Just don't do them".
They bring gold and exp, not just surveys. The game should change the way we could get gold and materials (i get about 100k a day just by doing the writs), not just us not do the content that gets boring. If many ppl are complaining that the current system does not work well, why not try to improve it? If it doesn't effect you, it changing shouldn't matter to you then. Merging surveys together or making the looting faster doesn't crash the economy. I already did the work by doing the writs.

100k everyday and you can't afford to buy the materials that you need for the daily writs ?
Oh man, these materials must be SO expensive O_O

No seriously, it's mathematical, the more crafters you have, the more materials you need because you don't get enough with the daily supply to craft so many items everyday. But again, if you want to get rid of the survey maps problems, slow down on the daily writs. If you can't find a balance between what you spend and what you earn, it's because you're spending too much material.

Where did I say I needed to buy materials?

I am trading the materials. Not buying them.. the whole point of doing the surveys for me at this point after few years is to trade the excess, specially the gold ones. It is more reliable method getting gold than spending hours hunting motifs. Not interested in flipping either. I do mainly PvP content so in addition what i buy with telvars and AP, income with materials is nice. I want to get rid of the time sink problem. Surveys are just fine.

miuseb17_ESO · July 21

TooManyToons wrote: »

Hi all,
When players have multiple surveys for the same location, let us harvest once and receive multiplied yield equal to the number of surveys.

I have a better proposal: let us harvest all location nodes with one hit!

But seriously, make surveys stack as you do with a master orders. To store only 6 of them instead of 100+.