Please Let Us Sell Surveys

STEVIL · July 2017

That is all.

Wreuntzylla · July 2017

I agree, don't like the timesink, but how would you value them? Sometimes you get 40 from one node, other times 18.

Taleof2Cities · July 2017

The value is whatever another player is willing to buy it for.

(In all seriousness, you could take the median of the node yield, 29, multiplied by the MM or TTC value of the raw mat ... multiplied by the number of nodes.)

Good idea by the way, @STEVIL ...

NordSwordnBoard · July 2017

People buy unrefined ore for the rng to get gold tempers etc. You're just selling them a ticket to go get raw mats with similar RNG if you sell them a survey.

Good idea.

MissBizz · July 2017

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

I agree, don't like the timesink, but how would you value them? Sometimes you get 40 from one node, other times 18.

Isn't that due to the CP passive though? @Wreuntzylla

STEVIL · July 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

Wreuntzylla wrote: »

I agree, don't like the timesink, but how would you value them? Sometimes you get 40 from one node, other times 18.

Isn't that due to the CP passive though? @Wreuntzylla

yes i believe so.

i figure after a very short time markets would settle in on a value. In my experience they are fairly predictable for any given character and seems to me its not uncommon to have your survey harvesting character be the one with the right cp setup.

Sordidfairytale · July 2017

MissBizz wrote: »

Isn't that due to the CP passive though? @Wreuntzylla

The CP passive does factor into it, but the variance starts pretty wide to begin with 7 - 20 IIRC.

I'd like to see them rework the surveys so that ones with monsters near the nodes return more, as well as nodes that are far from wayshrines. Make them more worth the effort. And possibly more valuable to sell.

I do like that they stack now, but it would also be really nice if the entire stack of survey's spawned at once, so you wouldn't have to keep leaving the area/logging out to refresh the same node.

STEVIL · July 2017

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Isn't that due to the CP passive though? @Wreuntzylla

The CP passive does factor into it, but the variance starts pretty wide to begin with 7 - 20 IIRC.

I'd like to see them rework the surveys so that ones with monsters near the nodes return more, as well as nodes that are far from wayshrines. Make them more worth the effort. And possibly more valuable to sell.

I do like that they stack now, but it would also be really nice if the entire stack of survey's spawned at once, so you wouldn't have to keep leaving the area/logging out to refresh the same node.

definitely need a streamline mechanic. thats kind of why i wanted to sell... it is so mind numbing bring to gather, run around, gather, rinse repeat.

i dont care so much about the wayshrines or monsters, but the circling the drain for multi-surveys is definitely a non-fun play experience.

blabliblargh · July 2017

hmmmm....survey crates !

helediron · July 2017

I've been through the surveys on the Morkuldin wall. Forty of them all.
Five hundred all over the Nirn and newest in Wardenfell.

After two days in the survey run
My eyes began to turn red
After three days in the survey fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think i was dead

You see I've been through the surveys on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the raid
Alik'r Desert - you can't remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one apart the dolmen train
La, la, la la la la, la la la, la la...

Yes, sometimes i really want to sell them!

Tevalaur · July 2017

Sordidfairytale wrote: »

MissBizz wrote: »

Isn't that due to the CP passive though? @Wreuntzylla

The CP passive does factor into it, but the variance starts pretty wide to begin with 7 - 20 IIRC.

I'd like to see them rework the surveys so that ones with monsters near the nodes return more, as well as nodes that are far from wayshrines. Make them more worth the effort. And possibly more valuable to sell.

I do like that they stack now, but it would also be really nice if the entire stack of survey's spawned at once, so you wouldn't have to keep leaving the area/logging out to refresh the same node.

Survey nodes for alchemy yield 4-6 lush plants, survey nodes for equipment mats yield 18-20 raw mats except the furrier containers that yield roughly double that. I've never seen 7 raw equipment mats from a survey node and if you believe that you have I do wonder if what you actually saw was a doubled normal node amidst the survey nodes rather than a survey node itself as that would be normal for a regular raw mats node (i.e. 3-4 raw mats), doubled.

Be sure to read the names of the nodes when gathering a survey (for example, "pristine ruby ash" rather than "ruby ash") and count to 6 before leaving the area...