Harvesters...

[Suchy]

So I played alot of Freman for the first 60 hrs I played, and they don't use harvesters..and it works fine...I am now playing as the Harkonen and they use harvesters...k.
What is the points of having harvesters if the only interaction you have with them is to turn on auto and re deploy after a worm....kinda of annoying really. Why not jusy have it all automatic?

[Exile]

The point is that they're an extra moving part that needs to be fussed with and a vulnerability that others can exploit.

[Mehukannu]

There is literally no reason to mess with the harvester itself.
If you want to hurt spicenomy just destroy the refinery building.

[Godefroy de Outremere]

welll Harvesters yield much more spcie production than fremen collectors.

[Katitoff]

Originally posted by Mehukannu:

There is literally no reason to mess with the harvester itself.
If you want to hurt spicenomy just destroy the refinery building.

Militia does not defend harvesters, opponent has no time to react if you go straight for harvester.

[Leuschner]

Yes the option to retrive and send seems nice for raiding interanction, in multiplayer.
But for the worms make it an auto redeploy pls, im not the clicking bot of the game.

[Mehukannu]

Originally posted by Katitoff:

Originally posted by Mehukannu:

There is literally no reason to mess with the harvester itself.
If you want to hurt spicenomy just destroy the refinery building.

Militia does not defend harvesters, opponent has no time to react if you go straight for harvester.

Yeah, but you risk worms and harvester is pretty tanky anyway so you still need a decent army.
If you have a big enough force to take out a harvester then you probably have big enough force to destroy a refinery building instead.

[Generic Roughneck]

Personally, I find having to micro the harvester all the time is poor design.

Fair enough if it was just having to re-deploy after escaping a sandworm. But having to recall every time it fills up and the deploy again is just plain rubbish and boring.

[SonOfADiddly]

Originally posted by Webby:

Personally, I find having to micro the harvester all the time is poor design.

Fair enough if it was just having to re-deploy after escaping a sandworm. But having to recall every time it fills up and the deploy again is just plain rubbish and boring.

uh....set it to auto-recall?

[FatalError]

I mean you can destroy them to damage the enemy's economy... And you have to choose whether to use ornithopters or not... and you can assign manpower. So there's that.

[Ninephoenix]

If

Originally posted by SonOfADiddly:

Originally posted by Webby:

Personally, I find having to micro the harvester all the time is poor design.

Fair enough if it was just having to re-deploy after escaping a sandworm. But having to recall every time it fills up and the deploy again is just plain rubbish and boring.

uh....set it to auto-recall?

Even if you do auto recall it doesn't auto-redeploy
Also auto recall doesn't even work half the time.

[FatalError]

Originally posted by Ninephoenix:

If

Originally posted by SonOfADiddly:

uh....set it to auto-recall?

Even if you do auto recall it doesn't auto-redeploy
Also auto recall doesn't even work half the time.

In my experience if you assign an ornithopter it works 99%, without it it fails sometimes.

[Generic Roughneck]

Originally posted by SonOfADiddly:

Originally posted by Webby:

Personally, I find having to micro the harvester all the time is poor design.

Fair enough if it was just having to re-deploy after escaping a sandworm. But having to recall every time it fills up and the deploy again is just plain rubbish and boring.

uh....set it to auto-recall?

Uh... not my point. That's supposed to 'work' when you get worm sign. I'm talking about all the time. Just like, I don't know, the original games. There's enough to do without having to faff with the stupid harvester that should know its job.