Star Wars Galaxies: The harvesting reduction

Holocron stopped by the Official Scout Board to write the following post:

This took a little bit to track down...!

OK, so those of you who noticed a reduction in the amount harvested were correct. From the patch notes:

Each scout in a group with loot permissions for a corpse may harvest from the corpse. Harvested group kills yield 60% their normal resources and xp, but may be harvested by each scout in the group.

So I asked about this, and what I got back was:

The reason was because allowing multiple scouts to loot from the same corpse is an overall increase in the number of resources that a single corpse will yield. So, the reduction was an attempt to prevent a sudden doubling or tripling the number of harvested resources flowing into the game.

Which prompted another designer to ask,

Question is. Is the reduction happening while solo, and does it happen while grouped with only a pet.

And the reply was,

The reduction happens if you are grouped. There's no check to see what you are grouped with.

So there you are. I don't know if this answers all the concerns adequately. I suspect not.

-Raph Koster,
Creative Director

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