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The best advice I have for escort missions is for you to turn off automatically run in your tools options. Then just take your time and keep away from the red roches on your overhead map. Also when you get a waypoint for a new escort, check to see how far away it is and then delete it if it's too far and try again. Do this until you see something around the 1000m mark. Another thing at certian times during the day and especially at late night hours spawns seem to decrease dramatically. This sounds fishy, but it is true. Especially on Dantooine. If you are lucky enough find a Master Ranger who can Mask scent you. Enemies usually stay far away from you and do not attepmt to kill your escort. Your escort can be done, but it takes practice.

It's slow and painstaking, but it's a matter of walking very slow and keeping the enemies out of your agro range. The higher CL you have the smaller the agro range gets and the better your chances. I know it all seems impossible, but it can be done. Just have to find a decent enough pattern and a time when spawns are at there bare minimum. It's not a guess that spawns decrease, I feel it's true. It's how I was able to do it even though it was before CU.

Sounds like fun, can't wait to get home and do it myself.

Is there any way to macro walking forward at a very slow pace? Least then you could take out the garbage or do the dishes while waiting for "Speedy" to follow you home.

Or you could go prone, and belly-drag yourself the whole way back.

Message Edited by jcecil on 06-02-2005 02:18 PM

Only thing I think you can really do is turn off auto run in your tools. Other than that's it'sa time whentime you have to pay really close attention to your screen. Kinda like the Corvette mission all over again. Another thing you coulddo is get a couple of guinee pigs to stay out of your agro range and take the heat off of you that way and let them get shot at. That way they get hit first and the enemies don't pay attention to you and your leisurly stroll through the woods.

I know you mean well, Nothing, but you've not answered if anything like this has happened to anyone else. Yes, I went with a group who attacked the aggros before I got there, yes I was walking the entire time, yes I was carrying a plasma flamethrower to slow me down more. I've been playing for nearly 2 years and know most of the tricks, but the fact is, "speedy" just stopped moving and wouldn't keep following me after I talked to her, unlike most escorts where if you get too far ahead, they stop, you talk to them, they scold you for abandoning them, then they start following you again. This one just stopped, but when I talked to it, it sounded as if it had never stopped at all. She said the same thing she would normally do if she were still following me, "We must bet back to the village," or something to that effect.

SO...has anyone else had their escort just STOP and you had to kill him/her off so you could try again?

I'm slow and hope you may have achieved your goal in this quest. So sorry if I didn't respond sooner. Yes this has happened to many people and the one consistent strategy that results into success is to make sure you keep your escort target in your target radial. Then stay within 25 meters of the target and keep moving, but never go outside 25 meters. I truly wish I was there to help you, but obviously I can't and I know it's frustrating. You've been on 2 years such as myself, so I no you will figure it out because it can be done and there isn't a bug involved, it just takes way too much time to do than I think any of us thought we were set out to do. Good luck and sorry I'm unable to give you any more help. Sounds like a canned response, but I swear I'm not a CSR.

I just finished mine. Had a few failures till i got the hang of it.

They almost ALWAYS seemed to get stuck on hills and id have to run back and converse then follow me.

never had any up and die on me though.

I ran into the same problem with the villager stopping. I was simply patient and kept telling him to "follow me". Eventually he got off his azz and moved. As for movement this method worked for me. As long as there were no red dots you can move up to 100m away from him without losing him. I would get ranged and then just go mess around on the internet for a bit. Took about 60-90 seconds for him to catch back up. I never failed a mission so this DOES work.

i did this quest without one problem , with the help of a friendly master rifleman...there is an option, not to converse, but it's #3 on the radial, it says FOLLOW ME...you should probably try that....my villiagers stopped about 5 times...all i had to do was that, fixed everything, and yea turn off autorun and just walk back....it's the safest way