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Thread: How many BH's are not getting names with seek bounty from the seeker?

DesertHunter
Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:06 am
#40





neelong wrote:

I get maybe 1 name out of every 12 to 15 Jedi I hunt. I am as surprised as the Jedi are now and my .5 of surprise is gone.





I got the Jedi's name on the second seek. When hunting NPC's I got it on the first, every time.


So there seems to be a delay with the name sof he Jedi... Bug or feature? ....



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Bish
Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:06 am
#41






Blixtev wrote:

Trying to narrow down the problem here.

Which of these do you do first?

Are you hitting a planet and doing a seek?

Are you hitting a planet and doing a track?



If you do a seek before you track do you get a name?


If you do a track before seek do you ever get a name?


I know many BH's are in the habit of doing nothing but tracks because it doesnt cost you a droid.


One of our Server programmers has been unleashed on the target not online problem.





Got my first name tonight. Here's what I did.


Picked up Rebel Jedi mission from Kadaara, get bio, launch Seeker using Track option just to see if Jedi is actually online or not on Kash. Get Target is not on this planet message. Head out and launch a Probot. Comes back with Mark on Talus. Load in to the Imperial Outpost and launch a Seeker with the Seek option. I get the name of the Jedi!!!


Head to Aa'kuan cave. We fight for about 10 minutes til he decides to run. I keep tracking him and notice he's heading to a popular player city. I shuttle to player city and get there just as he does. By this time he has another BH on him. I decide to help him out. I incompacitate the Jedi , but the other BH gets the DB . Nocash or xp, just a combat rating and the satisfaction of a somewhat successful hunt.




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Kyrowski
Thu Jul 21, 2005 6:17 am
#42

Took 2 missons last night - both online - launched the arkyd and travelled to the appropriate planet. On the 1st launched the seeker in seeker mode - got the name then launched seeker in tracker mode - at which point the offline message appeared. Took a chance and went to the waypoint to find in fact the mark was online (not sure if thats a fault or if he was simply logging out then straight back in).


2nd misson- followed same procedure but this time no name. I launched about three seekers in seek mode and still no name. I then launched seekers in track mode to see he was going to DWB so i followed. He was inside when i got there so i tabbed through but could only target NPC's even though he was apparently 5m away. I then tried to go after him but got my ass kicked by droids and ended up at the cloner. Meanwhile he left DWB and changed planet I launched another arkyd and followed him to the new planet launched a seeker in seek mode and got the name!!.


Conclusion??? No idea



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lammergeier
Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:30 am
#43



Blixtev wrote:
Trying to narrow down the problem here.
Which of these do you do first?
Are you hitting a planet and doing a seek?
Are you hitting a planet and doing a track?
If you do a seek before you track do you get a name?
If you do a track before seek do you ever get a name?
I know many BH's are in the habit of doing nothing but tracks because it doesnt cost you a droid.
One of our Server programmers has been unleashed on the target not online problem.





do you mean seeking with a tracker droid? tracking with a seeker droid?

or do you mean single-WP 'seeking' with a seeker? updated WP 'tracking' with a seeker?



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ner0sputnik
Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:45 am
#44






Blixtev wrote:

Trying to narrow down the problem here.

Which of these do you do first?

Are you hitting a planet and doing a seek?

Are you hitting a planet and doing a track?



If you do a seek before you track do you get a name?


If you do a track before seek do you ever get a name?


I know many BH's are in the habit of doing nothing but tracks because it doesnt cost you a droid.


One of our Server programmers has been unleashed on the target not online problem.





I generally load into the planet, drop off one on seek and one on track. I usually get both the name and track them at the same time.



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SunSpy
Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:52 am
#45

I have not gotten one single name from a mission out of 10 that I have found online and not on Kashyyk (only about 25%, but thats for another post). I have tried using seek first. I have tried using seek multiple times. I have tried using track first. Just a little silly if you track a target to a place with a bunch of other players and targets...like the Geo cave for example. You just end up pushing tab continuously until you target a player.



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MasterARP
Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:53 am
#46

/sign

i only seem to get the name once i get within 1000m of the target and use the "seek" option




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Cafa
Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:59 am
#47






MasterARP wrote:
/sign

i only seem to get the name once i get within 1000m of the target and use the "seek" option





That may be relevant. All of mine were within 1000m when I landed at the Dantooine Mining Outpost.


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AllHandlestaken
Thu Jul 21, 2005 11:04 am
#48

I have only gotten a named returned once out of multiple targets



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EEMAN
Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:01 pm
#49



Dellenty wrote:
Hi Blixtev,

Kinda maybe off topic but as a DE this one interests me,

If you fixed the not using a seeker charge bug then maybe everyone would be doing this in the right order?!?

That way you would only have to fix this for the correct system. and not try and fix the system so an exploit can still be used!!

As it goes I have no doubt you guys will fix it for the BH but leave us DE's out in the cold,

Again.

Sorry



damn a DE and a smuggler... I think you just like being ignored

too bad the droid revamp took so much care not to give people droids w/ skills that would cut other professions out of the loop. I put togeather some 30 fantastic ideas that they actually used later excluding the droids (astromech to search galaxy-wide vendors etc). Guess the idea was good enough to use but not good enough to make DE's cool again. They definitely didnt use the same guidelines when making jedi interdependant on everyone else.. I have a great idea... lets make it so jedi can make their own food and spice too!

If its any consolation I hope you get what you're asking for. Aside from one time purchases of astromech for my ships and the chips to program them (wich they went and nerfed on you too), you guys dont have much product left considering what few utility droids they gave you invalidated post CU.

Maint droid - well who needs one when the structures just take from the bank
stimpack droid - instant stimpack D's usable by everyone.
Harvester droid - now that ranger and scout bonuses are higher in the group and novice scout is still a pre-req, you can harvest significantly greater quantity than the droid since the bonuses of group and ranger dont apply to the droid.
entertainer droid - never been an entertainer but i guess this still works
Ad barking droid - requires planet advertising 4 in merchant yet even a artisan w/ business tree can list on the galaxywide search. honestly who needs these since galaxy wide search?


As a smuggler I feel your pain from the neglect..

As a smuggler ANd a DE I would have to shoot myself, burn the body, and dispose of it at sea.



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Crizis
Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:06 pm
#50






Zylphrix wrote:

I finally had gotten a mission and was trying over and over to get the seeker to give me the name trying different things ive been reading on the forums to get it to work .. My seeker would find the mark but not give me the name and I could tell from the location that the mark was in a house or cantina in a city .. I went to Theed and kept trying the seeker droids ... i got frustrated and walked away whil i had a seeker out looking and when i come back to my computer i hear a saber being used .. about this time i get the name from my droid LOL! the only time ive gotten a name so far was with the mark within visual sight.. heck I cant even get an online jedi anymore


The mark I was after was being chased and doing fretty well against what looked like 2 BH's already .. and killed one but I jumped in and helped finish off the Mark ... gave half of the earnings (226k) to the other surviving BH and walked away happy until I logged on tonight and couldnt find an online Mark.


grrrrrr


Zylphrix




No wonder, since the CU, I don't have any of my toons online for long, especially the Jedi toon. I feel sorry for any BH that pull my mission, because I'm proly offline again before they get to the seeker stage. There's not much to hold my attention anymore, and I'm usually going online for a task or chore, and not staying long, except for the rare instance of doing something like wookieworld or DWB, rare as they are, since they're all unbalanced and bugged.




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Dellenty
Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:36 am
#51

Hi Blixtev,

Kinda maybe off topic but as a DE this one interests me,

If you fixed the not using a seeker charge bug then maybe everyone would be doing this in the right order?!?

That way you would only have to fix this for the correct system. and not try and fix the system so an exploit can still be used!!

As it goes I have no doubt you guys will fix it for the BH but leave us DE's out in the cold,

Again.

Sorry



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Aviagraf
Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:10 am
#52






marc-anthony wrote:
What do they "test" in the Test Centre?




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