Creature Handler Archive

Name of rare hunted for: Swamp Stalker

Number of Lairs Search: 5 solo spawns (no lair)

Number of Babies Spawned: 3

Closest guess of total Parental types killed: 15

Number of Babies Tamed: 2

Whether the Mission can be found on Terminals: No

Server of CH character: Flurry

Best guess as to time of day you sighted any babies: evening (EDT)

Lair resets: n/a

Have you ever been KS'd while sighting a baby: no

Name of rare hunted for: Rhoa Kwi Guardian

Number of Lairs Search: 2

Number of Babies Spawned:1

Closest guess of total Parental types killed: 10

Number of Babies Tamed: 1

Whether the Mission can be found on Terminals: ?

Server of CH character: Flurry

Best guess as to time of day you sighted any babies:afternoon (EDT)

Lair resets:no

Have you ever been KS'd while sighting a baby: no

Name of rare hunted for: Rhoa Kwi Pack Leader

Number of Lairs Search: 1 lair, 1 random spawn of adult group (no lair)

Number of Babies Spawned:2

Closest guess of total Parental types killed: 13

Number of Babies Tamed: 2

Whether the Mission can be found on Terminals: ?

Server of CH character: Flurry

Best guess as to time of day you sighted any babies: evening (EDT)

Lair resets: n/a

Have you ever been KS'd while sighting a baby: no, my commando frien valiantly gave his life keeping the adults occupied while I tamed the 1st baby.

I wasn't even looking for the 2nd Pack Leader. Was hunting Bull rancors, there was a random spawn of Rhoas close by. We were killing them as they attacked us. When we finished with the Bull Rancor lair, I noticed one yellow dot on my radar, when I targeted it, it was a baby Paclk Leader.

Update:

I just did two Bull Rancor Lair missions.

On the first one. No, I repeat No, Bulls spawned from the lair, that is neither baby, nor adult. Only thing that spawned was 3 Rancors, 3 Rancor Youths, and 2 Gnarled Rancors.

The second one had one Bull out when I got there and a Rancor Youth. After that one Bull and Youth spawned, the Bull hit me with Plague. My hunting partner went down with three incaps from the ticks. I finished off the Bull with my screechers help, then while camping to heal up my action a bit since I was down to 1 on it. The lair despawned. No system message, nothing. The waypoint was still active, and my mission is still in my datapad but nothing is there.

I will edit my previous post with my new numbers.

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fantoq wrote:

Y'all know that your odds of finding one don't increase with the number of lairs? If one spawns 1% of the time, you face a 99% chance of not finding one every time.

Plus don't forget how many spawns go un-noticed by CHs. If no CH is around, the spawn isn't being recorded.

The proof's in the pudding. How many CHs have the rares is really the number we should be looking at. The problem is if most of them are getting killed by hunting parties, raising the numbers very much will make them common, not rare.

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I've said before: as far as I'm concerned there are no rares, they never spawn, and all of you who have rares are part of a great conspiracy to make poor shlobs like me waste countless hours looking for them

Message Edited by DaBudo2 on 05-09-2004 06:43 PM

Message Edited by DaBudo2 on 05-09-2004 06:45 PM

The rarity is far worse than 99% chance against a baby spawning--of the critters we are all searching for on our rare list. And while it is true that the percentage of the spawn rate will not fluctuate, the probability increases with each adult you encounter. The spawn rate on these baby creatures is between zero and something horrid like 0.0001% chance to spawn a baby. If the rate was better, we would have had multiples on each server already. I have personally killed over 1000 adults of the Screechers, FG's, Bulls, Reapers, BMB's, BMBQ's, and most of all, those damned Merek Harvesters.

Tal-N is right, many of these creatures are extinct in the game now or so rare as to be no better than extinct--and that is unacceptable.

Vinaddar

Message Edited by Vinaddar on 05-09-2004 05:37 PM

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Vertexon wrote:
Yes, good points there. Most players do not read these forums. And among those who do... most non-CHs probably don't read the CH forum. When a baby bull rancor does spawn, the odds of any witnesses both recognizing its rarity and coming here totalk aboutit seem exceptionally low.

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Of those players who don't read the forums, how many do you think are searching for the Bull Rancor baby? How many know that they are of the extremely rare variety?

I have rarely seen another MCH on Dath. I know we all don't have our Master tags up all the time if at all, but all the solo groups I see out there are getting Enraged Rancor missions for the easy money and the easy resources. I can pull the Bull lairs when only grouped with my pets, but when my hunting partner is on, we join a solo group and he gets Enraged lairs, while I stick to the Bull lairs. When someone harvests a corpse it is 90% of the time an Enraged Rancor that is harvested (via the system message of group harvests) Otherwise it is a corpse of some agro creature that jumped them.

Also, Vertexon, nice job on the X-Wing in the PA hall.