So just for yucks, I coded up Data Miner and started wandering around tapping.
You know, it is a very sedate, very mellow pasttime. Kind of like
collecting butterflies, I suppose. It is the ideal thing to load
up while you are scouting areas of MegaCity for a new event or for a
new faction hideout.
Even if you don't tap nodes, wandering around with the goggles on is very Matrixey.
So because I'm a masocist also I decided to code this tree up and check
it out, but for the life of me I can find either the advanced data tap
or the advanced goggles. I get drops for the ordinary one on
occassion but the advanced ones must be really rare. Anyone have
an ideas (or that can make them, I'm on Syntax)?
I'm hoping that, with the recent Coder nerf (regarding code bits etc.), they'll make the Data Miner tree be able to "mine" code bits as well as $info. Even if the $info drops are pathetic...
Good thinking, Zenshin. I am wondering if the ability to grab frags off a data node was another "unadvertised special"
As for the advanced data stuff, I got them as loot in missions, then
decomped and rewrote them. I seem to recall a vendor Downtown
that had them but I'll be damned if I an remember where. I was
running around doing hardlines last night.
zorya wrote: So because I'm a masocist also I decided to code this tree up and check it out, but for the life of me I can find either the advanced data tap or the advanced goggles. I get drops for the ordinary one on occassion but the advanced ones must be really rare. Anyone have an ideas (or that can make them, I'm on Syntax)?
I'm sure that one of the tool vendors downtown has the advanced data node goggles and advanced data tap.
I to have coded DataMiner, and MAXed it out...I would love to hear Walrus's input on this, but it SERIOUSLY seems to be a mistake of how much data you pull, on the order of about 10. At lvl 50, I can pull almost 2400 in DT per certain Data taps. That is the MOST I have ever been able to get. I honestly think this is off by x10. If you could pull 24,000 per tap, that again doesn't SEEM like much, but 4 or 5 taps and its 100K. Faster than missions, yet the ENTIRE TREE is deticated to it, and serves no other purpose (besides pawning in PvP). So, you Can't be a good fighter with Data Miner (except PvP) and would have to invest info, time and effort to level it up and obtain it.
So, the nitty gritty, if the info extrated was x10, we'd probably see a few more Data Miners.
My x10's worth.
And oh, for the groaners all Comments in () are sarcastic...
As much as people complain about how pointless Data Mining is, it is
gratifying that there are a few out there that are patient enough to
wait to see what changes might come about.
It is right up there with waiting to see what Cryptography will finally be used for...
I too have had an on again off again usage of Data Miner. I had such
high hopes for it when I first heard about this game before even beta,
hearing that you could pull the hidden documents for missions with it
and earn XP and info and I thought to myself "Wow that is really nice
of them to do for people who don't want to run missions etc over and
over and over again" And now that I am here in live I'm actually kind
of dissapointed by it, though I am sure that tweaking Data Miner will
be a part of the upcoming tweaks to the Spy branch so I look forward to
what is going to happen to it.
And Weasel you're right it is a nice, calm and mellow past time. Though
I would liken it more to stamp collecting than to butterflies.
There is no different between standart DataTap and Advanced DataTap. So
lets call the Advanced DataTap, CodeTap. When you tap in Richland or
Westview you got only bits and Interfaces. When you tap in
International you got Obejcts and bits and rarly some patches. If you
tap in Downtown you will get bits and Subroutines. But no $Info.
For $Info you must use the DataTap. But the amount of node tapping is
realy worse, so let us tap an big node at one turn. But the chance of
an effective complete tap of an big node depents by the skill of your
DataMiner Abilitys.
So if you tap an big node it will say you:
You have taped a class5 node
4 prosperous taps: 8650$Info received
1 abortive tap: 2460$Info lost
Another Idea is, to get Informations about the plans of other factions.
So if you are an Mero and you tap an datanode you will recieve casual
special code drops like the RSI Fragments like the N3oAgents event RSI
fragments.
This would make the DataMiner tree more interresting then it is now.
It was supposed to hoover items also not only XP/Info. Best thing
they could do with it is make it hoover also clothing including rare
construct drops, so people who are past certain construct level
boundaries have a slight chance of getting these items thru data mining.
Has anyone figured if stats have any effect on the data mining
results? I have enough Reason Boosting clothes but I don't see a
difference per node. <shrug>
The devs really need to put in some good stuff for Data Miner. Tapping nodes should do more the 500 xp and 2000 $info. Let's maybe make the info 10k-20k at least so we can make more money. Why don't we get any good code from the memory leaks in the matrix, shouldn't some important artifacts, clothes, or Mega-Enhanced Guns come out. Make this tree worthwhile, not make it so we data miners have to drool over a 2000 $info node...
What the Force are you guys talking about? Data Miner is a TERRIBLY overpowered tree that they need to nerf, bad, or remove entirely. It completely unbalances this game. Don't belive me, just look at these screenshots!
As you can see from the screenshots above, Data Miners are more powerful than Ballistas and Knife throwers combined. I mean, I once soloed a Pbox 4 with DM...along with the Pboxes of 30 other people. I didn't get any lag, because DM negates it. =/
"Well, whatever it is you're not doing, go don't do it somewhere else."
-A police officer in "Manos" The Hands of Fate
Any one remeber back during darkness falls I think when the lupins and blood drinkers rebelled The Frenchman came out into the club and had them sit around him and launched the attacks that looked some what like the pandoras box the weird thing was the exiles jumped from lvl 13 to 50 lol and it just killed them instantly while they were sitting and they didnt even go PvP they should add that ability with out the lvl jump part.any one want to add to it?
forgot to add that he was a data miner to give it reason in this topic lol
Message Edited by ShadowMavrick on 03-06-200609:17 PM
