investigating Excavator Rebuild?

[SW4MP]

Hello everyone.

 

Since we have our new Quarry System 2.0, we have a lot of resources, and the main purpose of the excavator is useless.

YES it is good to farm some scientists and one or two boxes,

But that main objective, nowadays is useless...

 

I want to know if there is any way of "rebuild" this monument, or give more resources by 30 diesel and by this, change maybe de HP of that scientist to a higher amount of HP.

Or even it is not a bad idea to increase only the scientists by 30% or 40% and spawn more cases at excavator...

 

From what i saw in game, i'm not the only one expressing this opinion but i hope to see more opinions

[TQuiglez]

I agree that the main purpose of the excavator is pretty meaningless right now. Even without quarries, gathering metal or sulfur is significantly faster by hand. High quality metal is the only one that might be faster by excavator. Not only that, but it requires you to sit and stare off into space for an extended period while you wait for it to dig.

As for the scientists, i think it is a god awful idea to increase their health, in fact i think it needs to go in the opposite direction. AI in rust is broken, they are aimbots on legs with heads that can tank a shot from an l96. I'm all for a challenge in games, but they aren't a challenge, the only factor in whether you win or not is if you brought enough meds, because if a scientist sees you, you WILL need to heal.

Personally, i'd love to see a chinook come in every X minutes the excavator is running, to drop off more scientists and maybe even hackable crates. If a heli showed up carrying 4-7 scientists with 1-2 heavies as well, every 5-10 minutes that the excavator is running, it would keep it more entertaining, and bring some purpose to using the excavator.

As for the excavators rates, they'd need to be increased to an insane level to make it worth using. If i'm not mistaken, the excavator provides 400 sulfur per diesel. At level 1 mining skill, you get around 300 per node. There are a lot of areas on the map that you will find a node every time you turn around. At level 47 i get 440 sulfur per node. Running around smacking rocks, is also a lot less boring than standing watching an excavator swing back and forth.

[KombatKen]

Excavator isn't useless Quarry is, because i could just buy a lot of diesel fuel at outpost and go to excavator and afk and wait till I get like 40k to 100k stack of metal frags, Stone and Sulfur.