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Thread: How to avoid losing a Bounty Mark during your Investigation
Cholula999 wrote:
Is theres a way to predic where mreo or lees wich city he is near on a planet when you ge the info from the probot? thing is i hate shuttles. For example my mark its a Talus so i pick to go to Dearic, when i arrive the **edit** is near the imperial outpost redy to move and guess what? I need to wait ten minutes becase the shuttle left me because my droids are to slow to update.
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What I have done is drawn direction maps of all bounty runs as far as I can map, and can base my travels on the best chance for where marks will be and where they are going.
Some examples:
On Dantooine, 75% of all mark "runs" end up in the "Pirates" Outpost... and 50% of those begin runs from the North-West and head SE...
On Rori... a bit more than half the mark runs end in Narmle. 25% start from the top NE area and 20% start near the rebel base.
I have more, but would be a LONG post... one day I will post them all and the DEVs will change 'em anyway 
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On Talus the mark seems to like running to Nashal for Inv 3 missions (gets stuck under bridge near starport sometimes, still attackable), and Dearic for Inv 4 missions (hangs out in the little park near theentrance to the starport having a picnic lunch).
OnNaboo the mark goes to Deeja Peak a lot at Inv 3 and Keren a lotat Inv 4. But for Naboo missions you should always go to Theed and justtake the insta-shuttle once it's clear where the mark is headed.
Roriis about an even split at Inv 3 between Narmle and Restuss.For Inv 4 almost all of my Rori marks have run to Restuss.
Corellia missions are all over the place, but most of mine at Inv 3 went toVreni Island and Kor Vella. So far myInv 4 missions have headed to Bela Vistal more often than anywhere else.
Marks roam all over Tatooineat Inv 3 and Inv 4. Try not to let them get to Wayfar or Mos Taike, they will get stuck in a wall. Iusually fly into Bestine because of proximity to Wayfar, but I seem to have to shuttle to Mos Entha quite a bit to chase my marks.
MyDantooine missions have favored the MiningOutpost over the Aggro Outpost at both Inv 3 and Inv 4.
The mark was in Dathomir and there is a big body of water right outside the northmost outpost (not the science outpost but the other, I forgot the name)
The mark was 75 metres away from the closest spot of land I could stand on, a metre close and I would swim, meaning I wouldn't be able to attack. It was attackable but it was far from range so I couldn't get a shot off to get his attention. I tried running 500 metres away from it and launching more seekers, waiting for it to move, climbing a mount to get a little closer, sending out my probe droid to attack and pull him closer and NOTHING. After an hour of attemps I finally aborted the mission.
Any ideas how could I have solved this?
Ok, so far so good. I've had about 12-15 marks that were bugged in a way but found a way around it (stuck in walls, non-spawning, etc) but there is only ONE that has escaped my grasp.
The mark was in Dathomir and there is a big body of water right outside the northmost outpost (not the science outpost but the other, I forgot the name)
The mark was 75 metres away from the closest spot of land I could stand on, a metre close and I would swim, meaning I wouldn't be able to attack. It was attackable but it was far from range so I couldn't get a shot off to get his attention. I tried running 500 metres away from it and launching more seekers, waiting for it to move, climbing a mount to get a little closer, sending out my probe droid to attack and pull him closer and NOTHING. After an hour of attemps I finally aborted the mission.
Any ideas how could I have solved this?
This hppened to me on Lok. Get a probot droid, send him after your mark, then call your droid back. I believe this works up to 100m.
BenkeiHami wrote:
Ok, so far so good. I've had about 12-15 marks that were bugged in a way but found a way around it (stuck in walls, non-spawning, etc) but there is only ONE that has escaped my grasp.
The mark was in Dathomir and there is a big body of water right outside the northmost outpost (not the science outpost but the other, I forgot the name)
The mark was 75 metres away from the closest spot of land I could stand on, a metre close and I would swim, meaning I wouldn't be able to attack. It was attackable but it was far from range so I couldn't get a shot off to get his attention. I tried running 500 metres away from it and launching more seekers, waiting for it to move, climbing a mount to get a little closer, sending out my probe droid to attack and pull him closer and NOTHING. After an hour of attemps I finally aborted the mission.
Any ideas how could I have solved this?
This hppened to me on Lok. Get a probot droid, send him after your mark, then call your droid back. I believe this works up to 100m.
This is correct and good advice. Pets and Droids have a larger range to attack than you do, since they CAN start attacking in "attack mode" almost 100m (or a bit more) away from the target and can attack in water. So send in the pets, then call then back and watch the mark run toward you.
NOW... be careful about one thing... if the mark starts shooting at your pet and he does not move, then you cannot help, and some pets are dumb enough to continue attacking while being shot at instead of running back to you. If this happens, run a bit further away and spam yell for the pet to come back.
sorry, i saw probe droid. Anyway did your droid not attack or did the mark not follow it back?
I've just reports of pets not being able to do ranged attacks in water so this may not work anymore.
It works on land, but didn't work in water.
I sent out a borrowed pet (I don't like pets used for attack personally) but it didn't work either.
Oh well
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