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Thread: Getting lost

Washell
Tue May 25, 2004 10:18 am
#14




Enoshima wrote:


IAnd I definatly have to agree with Washell. Whoever designed thelarge generic house, must have been laying down looking atthe design sideways. It absolutely makes no sense. I hate them with a passion, I can never find the damn door. This also goesfor any Naboo style house.


My guess is the designer was hoping to design mazelike dungeons but got stuck with houses instead. The medium Naboo house is btw the most appealing inside I've seen, nice hallway, big first room, actually feels like you're in a house. The Corellia/Generic houses have an industrial/office feel to me.

Washell Olivaw, Ranger/Rifleman, Eclipse

Sunsplitter
Tue May 25, 2004 1:36 pm
#15

Follow me...
Humm? Waypoint jumped.
Follow me...
Almost there...
Hey?Why are we almost back at my house?
Deactivate waypoint...
Follow me...




RETTEP - Master Ranger/Master Rifleman - Scylla, Twin Mountain Base - www.swg-tmb.com (offline) ** LONG LIVE THE RANGER **
Squidwalker
Tue May 25, 2004 3:08 pm
#16




Fred_Skinner wrote:

I can be dropped anywhere on Corellia and get back to a city w/o a WP. I know RIverlands particularly well, and have seen the rise and fall of several player cities there. My grind was mostly done between Kor Vella and Tyrena: used to walk up and down the map there. I used to have only those two cities for waypoints on my datapad.


Sense then I have gotten to know Rori and Talus almost as well. There are some "interesting" places there that are not listed on the POI list.






LOL yea, I started in Doaba Guerfel, and wandered between there and Kor Vella for the first few weeks. I know Corellia like the back of my hand also. I can honestly say I have explored all of Corellia, ON FOOT, you noobs. I explored a lot of Tat as well, and found all kinds of things on planets that aren't POI or on the planetary maps you find on the Net. It's cool.



Teranus Blan'Fyl
OldSchool Ranger
Short-Timer
Enoshima
Wed May 26, 2004 12:29 am
#17
"Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding."

from my signature.

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance" -Aesop


Just my contributions. I like the shrubberyone the best.



Hon Atsugi
Elder Ranger / Ace Alliance Pilot
Ranger, more of lifestyle than a profession.
August 3, 2003 - ?????
Waiting for Ashra's return.........

TalKurgan
Wed May 26, 2004 12:59 am
#18
A few friends and I were meeting up on Dantooine at the Mining Outpost. It was out first trip to a non-starting planet way back when we thought it we were tough, what with a novice pistoleer and a novice bh in the group...


Anyway, our medic friend call us on the /tell from the travel terminal...


"Which outpost are you guys at?"

"We're at the Mining Outpost on Dantooine."

"I don't see a mining outpost. Just a DathomirOutpost."

"Wrong planet. We're on Dantooine."

"OK. I still don't see the Mining Outpost."

"Wrong planet."

"OK, I'll be there in a few."

...

"OK, I'm here! Where are you guys?"

"We're in the cantina."

"OK."

...

"Wow! This place is crazy! Look at all the people!"

*we look around at the single dancer in the corner*

"Um, which outpost are you at?"

"I didn't see the Mining Outpost, so I just went to the Dathomir Outpost."

"We're on Dantooine. As planned. Yesterday."

"Oh. Oops. I'll be right there"

*sigh*

"That's -1000 scouting xp for you."

"Yeah, yeah. Hey, there is no Dantooine. **edit**?"

"That's another -1000 scouting xp for you."


We still give him crap about that everynow and then.




"And so our player base was coming around the corner and we were all BOOM! HEADSHOT! And then the veterans were coming down the stairs and, you know what? BOOM! HEADSHOT!" -FPSDev
ScoerFusou
Wed May 26, 2004 8:21 am
#19
I get lost in places like Coronet or other high lag areas, not because I don't know my way around but because sometimes my lag is really bad and when I'm trying to run somewhere ill end up walking through a building because it hasn't loaded yet and then get stuck and have no idea where I am. I do, however, get lost in the corevette every time I go up. I always make a wrong turn and run into some trouble and then just start running to get away and then I get lost. I try to use my map but that corvette map confuses me.



Shubacca
Master Ranger

Scoer Fusou
Master Chef
Mayor of Ouxan Bay, Talus
Fusou Foods (764, -5596) Ouxan Bay, Talus


AgonThalia
Wed May 26, 2004 9:42 am
#20
I thought i was the only one who gets lost in strange places. My very first house was a large naboo, and I spent 10 minutes trying to get out.

The corvette, I just try to follow everyone else... its nasty up there and inevitably I get turned around and jumped by 4 stormtroopers.



Draknev
The Last Ranger Correspondent
Subterfuge and Sabotage, Concealment and Camouflage:
Colonel: Rebel Alliance

Aebous
Wed May 26, 2004 11:33 am
#21
I always get lost indoor's as well.

1st experience(or inexperience)

Droid Deka(however that is spelled) caves, well 2 intersections and enough combat and following the person in front of me I forget where the exit's at. Then I get a game crash(once in a blue moon) and by the time I get back in me friends left me. So before I ask where they are at I try to area track(oh can't do that in caves hmm) So instead of asking which way they went I trudge on ahead(tanks to ranger pride of course) and get even more lost. Which during the whole time they do make fun of me, finally I see them, but they are one level below me, by the time i get there they are gone of course :-) So anyways we finally meet up again and they give me crap every now and then when we go indoors.

2nd experience

Good ol Warren had me super thoroughly lost even more so than the caves. Luckily though I wasn't the only one lost(about half of us were in the warren) so I didn't catch as much flak as the caves.



SSgt Aebous Ossy - Master Antarian Ranger

"Ranger, it's not a profession. It's a lifestyle"
Ehope
Wed May 26, 2004 11:01 pm
#22
"Which way Master Ranger?"


That a way! *faces the direction we need to go*


I'm still known as the lost ranger. East, west...same thing. I call it adventure.

Most of the time, I don't even care where I am. I just wander.

MonsofoLexius
Thu May 27, 2004 2:32 pm
#23
#1)



TalKurgan wrote:

"Which outpost are you guys at?"

"We're at the Mining Outpost on Dantooine."

"I don't see a mining outpost. Just a DathomirOutpost."

"Wrong planet. We're on Dantooine."

"OK. I still don't see the Mining Outpost."

"Wrong planet."

"OK, I'll be there in a few."




LMAO!! I have done this (recently) I just tell people that I can get you FROM the starport to most anywhere safely, just don't count on meacually being at the CORRECTstarport.


#2)


Coronet, Theed and (was said perfectly above) anything that starts with Moss, I was running the hunt master (?) quests the other night and tried to ride my speeder bike thru town (only had an hour to play, and needed skull for decoration on house) boy was THAT a mistake. Now I know why I like to ride a dewback


#3)


Yes, Yes houses, lol



I have notice a theme here. Maybee we should all ask for a skill enhancement at Novice Ranger, +30 Urban Negotiation.

Or start a new guild UCR (Urbanly Challanged Rangers) we could all join


Mon

Message Edited by MonsofoLexius on 05-27-2004 02:35 PM



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Calculus_Entropy
Thu May 27, 2004 3:54 pm
#24
I can certainly tell that the cities were not designed for vehicles. Tyrena (that city causes me so many problems) is terrible for navigating in a vehicle. There are archways on all the main paths, and they are skinny. On top of that, they are at wierd angles, and sometimes have two offset by 30 degrees that you HAVE to travel through. Anyone who has been to Tyrena can back me up .



Calculus Entropy
Ranger Blue Glowie Emeritus
Garindan used /areatrack to find Han.
AgonThalia
Thu May 27, 2004 4:24 pm
#25
something I noticed last night.

I needed to get to a cloning center in coronet. I pulled up the over head map and I couldnt find it... so I typed /find

then selected cloning center. all of a sudden, not only did a waypoint appear, but a virtual ribbon pathway leading to the cloning center. I just followed the ribbon and made it to clone.



Draknev
The Last Ranger Correspondent
Subterfuge and Sabotage, Concealment and Camouflage:
Colonel: Rebel Alliance

SpaceKidAmnesiac
Thu May 27, 2004 4:53 pm
#26




Calculus_Entropy wrote:

I can certainly tell that the cities were not designed for vehicles. Tyrena (that city causes me so many problems) is terrible for navigating in a vehicle. There are archways on all the main paths, and they are skinny. On top of that, they are at wierd angles, and sometimes have two offset by 30 degrees that you HAVE to travel through. Anyone who has been to Tyrena can back me up .






I must be lucky then, because I can usually navigate pretty well through Tyrena on my speeder (even without holding down the shift key so that I go into "walk mode" forit ).Of course,that might be because I'm on the West coast, playing on a West coast server and I usually have a ping under 100, so most of the time I don't get enough lag through the city that stuff pops up in front of me out of nowhere. That, and my constant use of the overhead map, especially while in the city. But yes, I can vouch that they certainly did not design the city with them in mind.




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