higher rate/speed of harving means less mats?

[micrix]

Has anyone else had the really annoying bug when you dig over QL and get a 'fail to gather material' message just as the time ends?

I find this closes the take/drop box and leaves me with zero focus: net result no mats + no focus = unhappy harvester. (Usually results in me going hunting, as I miss the excellent/supreme time window because I have to wait for a regen. and no I am not spend SP of a insta focus heal above 500)

Not this message, but it happened that i got a much lower quality with overdig then with my regular. I think this is fair. That it happened to you with excellent/supreme might be a very rare case.

[mmatto]

Has anyone else had the really annoying bug when you dig over QL and get a 'fail to gather material' message just as the time ends?

Have seen this (or some other) message and ran out of focus. I thought it was not bug as I managed to screw all harvested mats for that dig. 0 mats pulled, no focus back. It has happened to me maybe 1 or 2 times long time ago.

Emptying excellent and supreme spots are far more annoying. Especially almost empty spot that gives like 1.5 mats and you dig happily and then "fail to gather material" and spoil that 1 mat and can't get any more from that spot to safe focus.

Fair game, risk of overdigging.

[borg9]

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Fair game, risk of overdigging.

losing the mat I am pulling - I can live with
losing the mats I have pulled - Is madness - seems like playing Russian Roulette.

I can even cope with the fact that I can get a pulled ql upto 113 and then have it drop to ql40 because of a fail. I still get some mats, I still get my focus back.

[bcharles]

Speed I have always beleived has had two effects (cycles per second and QL rise)

Speed has no effect at all on QL rise. I did the experiment last night to confirm this. I did two pulls, both with Q G150, R A5. The first pull I used speed A5, and the second I used speed G1. Each round I noted the number of mats pulled and how high the qualtiy had risen. The numbers were exectly the same. The only difference was that the rounds were 2 or 3 times longer with speed 1.

[marct]

(Usually results in me going hunting, as I miss the excellent/supreme time window because I have to wait for a regen. and no I am not spend SP of a insta focus heal above 500)

Oh, but let me tell you how handy that is when you get spanked and want to run back to your sup before it is gone. 2000 focus self heal!!!!

[borg9]

Oh, but let me tell you how handy that is when you get spanked and want to run back to your sup before it is gone. 2000 focus self heal!!!!

would leave me less than 1/2 full on focus

and unable to cover my prospect for the next round of digging should all 3 spots be full of mats.