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Kill 'em! Kill, Kill, KILL!

You're on the right track. I agree, it does seem that reds spawn around large concentrations of harvesters and near high concentrations of resources in general.

But HEY! Most of the fun in this game (and most content) is combat-centered. So, why shouldn't us poor arties join in the fun by being lunch for a dragon?

If you don't want to develop your combat skill you havea couple of options. Get a pet or a droid. You can sick 'em on the nearest aggo and hopefully keep it busy long enough for you to do your thing. Note that you can operate and maintain harvesting gear while mounted, for speedy get-away.

The other option is to get a combat-type to accompany you on service runs. Then you can get some combat exp. Make sure you pay your help well, either in trade or cash.

O-Jen Ksy

MTK

hehe, thanks Berl, I was just gonna ask if there was a better profession for this scenario than rifleman. Commando might be a good choice, it's suppose to do massive damage quickly.

Stay on your vehicle when you are access your harvesters for maitenance. If something aggros you, just take off and come in at another angle.

If you have scout, place a camp and pull out a non-ch pet and have him attack the reds while you access your harvesters. Your pet might die, but you'll get more time to access your harvesters.

LOL, that would be GREAT Film. hmmm, that would mean I would need to find a guild........

It can become a sort of game, too. There was one time I really needed to pick up a harvester, because there was a resources shift. However, some big ugly drooly thing had decided that my heavy chemical harvester was a good thing to sit next to. This was before vehicles, so I was on foot. I WALKED, very slowly, up to the side of the harvester on the exact opposite side from where ugly drooly was sitting. I started the process of emptying the hopper, and getting ready for shutting down and destroying the harvester. Meanwhile, ugly drooly realizes that I am there, but is trying to get at me THROUGH the harvester, which means I am safe up the the very second that I destroy it. So everything is now ready, and I just have to click once to destroy harvester and return it to my inventory. I carefully turned around, clicked OK, and then immediately started running, with ugly drooly hot on my trail. I lucked out, and managed to escape without a trip to the cloning center. Barely.

It does seem that maskscent works much better when you are going slower. So even though a vehicle gives you a fast getaway, sometimes walking very slowly can also be an option.

Back in the day most of my deaths were from harvestor campers, as I worked up the pistoleer tree i had less to worry about. The best thing to do is use your ride to draw them after you and have them follow you a ways off then head back.

I agree with one of the above posters, that mask scent works very well. Of course, it doesn't save me from Desert Demons... but those are on a faction you can make yourself non-KoS to.