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Is anyone else having a problem with areatrack right now?

Ok so here is the situation. I'm on Endor right now on Lowca hunting for the carnivore meat. As I'm walking to my second mission I stumble across a Nest of forest gurrecks and a Nest of cowardly gurrecks about 150-200m apart. I decided to take the forests first in case one lair despawned because they give more meat. So once I finished off the lair of forests i hit area track because at that time i had forgot about the cowards.

Areatrack finds nothing so i start heading to my mission and after i walk about 50m the cowards start to show up on my radar and then thats when i remembered they were there. When i hit areatrack I couldn't have been more then 250m away and they didnt show up.

I decided to try areatracking a few more times and one of the times it seemed to be working but the 3rd time i tried it i areatracked and had nothing i walked about 100m and came across 3 nests, i walked back 100m and tried it and only 1 nest showed up.

Is there something wrong with me, areatrack or maybe Lowcas spawns?

It had been noted in the past that Terrain caused holes in the tracking. Another issue is that there seems to be a hole at the 100m mark. It appears you reconfimed it .

As Calc said, there are definite terrain issues with areatrack which create "holes" where nasties can hide. These issues with areatrack go back to the very beginning. It's been noted by many people, but I don't think I've ever seen a response to this? As in, yeah this is definitely a bug and will be fixed?

So I guess out areatrack hole didn't get filled at the same time as the armor hole. Figures, we get left without a fix, but combat professions do. /sigh

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Calculus_Entropy wrote:

FYI,I just brought this up on the Corr forum.

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Calculus, can you please clarify. Was this only just brought up or did you give them a reminder?

weird

Thats how track works in this game.

Basicallyanimals/NPCaren't going to track unless

a) it is already on the radar

b) it is a static spawn

c) it is by another player

d) it has been created/spawned in the last 40 seconds

My problem with Area Animal Track is that I get animals on the tracker and then they disappear

Happened alot with Snorbals today.

Sometimes animals will despawn if no players are around them for awhile. Try moving toward the spot where they despawned and sometimes they will pop back up again. Remember that area track can only track those things that are in-game. Area track cannot predict what is going to spawn within your tracking radius.

Funny story:

I was trying to help a guildie track down this wookie in the Rryat trail canopy, for a quest he had. We found him, alright, but not "visually." I areatracked him, and stood within 4 meters of him according to my areatracking, but he was no where to be found. I tried to /target him, but that didn't return anything, not even an error message.

Because waypoints can be made on one point of the trail, and when you select "view waypoints only in this region," it shows them in another trail area, I concluded that the wookiee in question was on another level, but at that same waypoint on it.