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Thread: A Ranger's Tale
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BinaryGeek
Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:17 am
#14
I'm constantly helping my guild mates out with hunts, I'm one of two rangers in the guild, the other is master and I'm only 4040, just can't deal with that type of grind right now lol. For me the best part of being a ranger is the groups, you meet interesting people most of the time, and yes some rude ones, some really impatient ones, at one point someone was walking with me and every couple minutes was "have you found anything yet?" I eventually walked off and said "you think it's so easy.....you track it." I've lurked around the ranger forums for a few months, close to 7 months now, back when I was a novice scout starting out, and I've noticed the ranger forums have the least amount of complainers on them, and even then it's not really complaining most rangers seem to be able to rationally discuss the problems as they see them, and yes I was around for the Hawt pants war, imagine the conversations since one of my friends is a tailor lol. I know it's off topic, but oh well.......
Cryos_Merovingian
Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:42 am
#15
sanca wrote:
sanca wrote:
It's certainly one way of making big money, but I tend not to bother with it. It's just so mind numbingly boring, i'm amazed you had the mental stamina to track for that long. My preferred way of making money is just to keep a look out for people offering so and so amounts for blah blah and then hunt it when I feel like it. If you can get that kind of work regularly it can be a lot more rewarding than tracking.
Sheesh, fail to see why that got badly starred...
/agree
There, I tried to compensate for ya
Almagill
Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:59 am
#16
Cryos_Merovingian wrote:
sanca wrote:
sanca wrote:
It's certainly one way of making big money, but I tend not to bother with it. It's just so mind numbingly boring, i'm amazed you had the mental stamina to track for that long. My preferred way of making money is just to keep a look out for people offering so and so amounts for blah blah and then hunt it when I feel like it. If you can get that kind of work regularly it can be a lot more rewarding than tracking.
Sheesh, fail to see why that got badly starred.../agree
There, I tried to compensate for ya
Ditto. Dirty 1* sniping from the dunes...
Universal_Knight
Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:22 am
#17
_Nightrunner_ wrote:
In these cases, it is helpful if you are actually role-playing your toon. If you look at it in a sense of going on a great kryat hunt and using your contacts to kill the great beast as a trophy signifying your expertise as a hunter, then the money you get on top of it is just that much greater.
Well, at this time, I was more involved in grinding toward FS so Role-Playing the character as a ranger wasn't what I was planning.
I was disappointed mainly because I was performing a service for a group of my peers, and I had failed. I would have been able to find that Giant if I were on the side of the graveyard they were on when it spawned.
Oh, well. You win some, you lose some. I still had somewhat of a good time, there were just other things I would have rather been doing.
I'll get back into the ranger-role of my new unlock soon enough. I'm excited!
DureenaBadKarma
Fri Feb 04, 2005 8:29 am
#18
I tend not to track for money anymore, even at 500k an hour which I used to charge. I did it twice and it was awful.
Both times I was unlucky and got whiney little Jedi with their "are we there yet?" every 5 minutes and then lots of abuse after 2 hours of finding nothing.
At least with friends and guildmates you chat and have fun as you do it and it's nice to help them out.. with a complete stranger (and mine wereannoying strangers!) it's just very very very dull.
It took on an RL job kinda dullness, and I play to escape that!
FourthNail
Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:06 am
#19
I did my first ever track for contract last night and rather enjoyed it. Found the Peko Peko albatross along the way. Some TKM sent me a tell asking if I'd track falumpasets for him. He needed 20 and would pay 10k per. Made 200k in about an hour's time, tracking back and forth between Theed and Kaadra.
Felt kinda bad for all the gungans he stole falumpasets from, but only for a minute
Plunk
Felt kinda bad for all the gungans he stole falumpasets from, but only for a minute
Plunk
KaiRaene
Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:04 am
#20
I never track for pay. I help guildies out tracking for quests but if I am wandering around the desert of tat and run across any of the quest goals I just announce it in Planet chat. I hate seeing the goobers selling waypoints on the forums. So, I just do it for free.
As for hunting I never hunt under contract. I did do it briefly but the guy sent me an email asking if I could harvest 3 present resources as much as possible before shift. One of them being corellian leathery(corellian butterflies!) and I just couldnt do it. So, I dropped out of it for a bit.
Now, I just do my best to be informed by reading
New home of SWG Rangers!
"Ranger isnt a profession. Its a lifestyle for sure. But upon the desert plains of Tattooine that wandering hermit you see was once a proud Ranger. It may not be a profession anymore but the lifestyle can never be lost, changed or deleted. "
As for hunting I never hunt under contract. I did do it briefly but the guy sent me an email asking if I could harvest 3 present resources as much as possible before shift. One of them being corellian leathery(corellian butterflies!) and I just couldnt do it. So, I dropped out of it for a bit.
Now, I just do my best to be informed by reading
New home of SWG Rangers!
"Ranger isnt a profession. Its a lifestyle for sure. But upon the desert plains of Tattooine that wandering hermit you see was once a proud Ranger. It may not be a profession anymore but the lifestyle can never be lost, changed or deleted. "
KaiRaene
Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:15 am
#21
Wow... forums are screwed up. My link below got merged with my sig.. huh?
Any way.. Here's the rest. See if this works:
Now, I just do my best to be informed by reading this guide and paying attention to your trade forums. Just last night I seen an armorsmith spamming in Cnet that he needed wooly hide. I look thru my pack and find an 11k stack of wooly with 900 OQ and 830 SR. Good for composite. So, I drop it off at his vendor at his set price of 125cpu and walk away with a cool 1.5 million credits. And that I just collected one day walking around Dantooine killing huurtons.
Any way.. Here's the rest. See if this works:
Now, I just do my best to be informed by reading this guide
and paying attention to your trade forums. Just last night I seen an armorsmith spamming in Cnet that he needed wooly hide. I look thru my pack and find an 11k stack of wooly with 900 OQ and 830 SR. Good for composite. So, I drop it off at his vendor at his set price of 125cpu and walk away with a cool 1.5 million credits. And that I just collected one day walking around Dantooine killing huurtons.
PetaByte32
Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:55 am
#22
BinaryGeek wrote:
I'm constantly helping my guild mates out with hunts, I'm one of two rangers in the guild, the other is master and I'm only 4040, just can't deal with that type of grind right now lol. For me the best part of being a ranger is the groups, you meet interesting people most of the time, and yes some rude ones, some really impatient ones, at one point someone was walking with me and every couple minutes was "have you found anything yet?" I eventually walked off and said "you think it's so easy.....you track it." I've lurked around the ranger forums for a few months, close to 7 months now, back when I was a novice scout starting out, and I've noticed the ranger forums have the least amount of complainers on them, and even then it's not really complaining most rangers seem to be able to rationally discuss the problems as they see them, and yes I was around for the Hawt pants war, imagine the conversations since one of my friends is a tailor lol. I know it's off topic, but oh well.......
One of the reasons I love rangers is this board. I have yet to read any major arguements or flamewars. Also in game there is a code we all live by. Well most of us. That is we always help each other if possible. I cant count how many times, working through frontiering, I had rangers come and sit in my camps for hours just to help me get XP. I have even had rangers that were buffed, tank high level mobs just so I can throw traps at them to get xp. Once I was out near Theed getting camp xp and ran out of hide. A ranger handed me over 5k without even asking and refused money.
You can always count on a ranger to help you if you need it. Even if its just advice. And it always makes me feel the need to help too. So I always help rangers get camp xp or whatever when I can. Even when I had to drop ranger.
PB32
PoppaBear
Wed Sep 21, 2005 8:01 am
#23
In a time before mounts and vehicles, it was tough to get around in-game. Many of us had to run to get where we wanted to, and to me, it toughened many of us up. During one of my many travels,I first discovered Scout. I ran across aTKM/Doc named Inoc in front of the Theed cantina. When I askedhow he got to TKM, he told me about the Scout profession.
How the hell cansome DnD sh!t help me level?I thought. How is that gonna help me?
He taught me about Traps and what they do, especially Wire Mesh Traps, which reduces a critters' melee defense. He taught me about all the traps in the Scout line, and I honestly got more hooked on Scout, than trying to become a TKM. But at his suggestion, I thought I should try Marksman as well, to agro critters from far away when I ran out of traps.
Cool, I was on my way to becoming a TKM! I was loaded with my knowledge, and went back home to Tatooine.
Iwould run off solo around Eisley, and I killed every critter in sight. I'd skin'em of all resources, but the grinding was slow. It was fun, though, as I went on hunting trips with other novice Scouts around the area.
That lasted for a month, til I made my secondtrip to Naboo, and then I discovered a small spot north of the spaceport that had other critters to skin and kill. But here on Starsider, it was CH Central, as you couldn't get a decent kill in because of some baby nuna stealing your kill. 
Discouraged? Nope, as I soon met my first CH/Ranger, my friend Sarah. She showed me all the cool camps she could make, as well as areatrack, and I was hooked. After expressing my interest in the camps, especially Ranger,she took myself and about 5 Scouts with her to a place I've heard about, but couldn't get to cause lack of creds: Yavin 4. We landed at the Mining Outpost, and it was on.
I fell in love with that planet...and hated it at the same time. Now, we all know how expensive shuttling to Yavin 4 is, and back then, inflation was unheard of. I was a bad ass Scout, right? We lived off the wild...who cared about creds? She told us her lil secret about leveling for Ranger, which was running back and forth from the Mining Outpost to the Labor Outpost with maskscent on.
Easy enough, I thought. These critters can't be that tough. I'm a wanna-be TKM...should be easy pickings.
She told us the rules: stick together, keep maskscent on, no unnecessary fighting, and keep a cool head. With that, she waved and smiled at us: "See you boys in a few days". And with that, she left. We stood silent for 60 seconds, thinking **edit**! I sent her a tell, asking why she left us stranded.
I didn't leave you stranded, she replied. I'm teaching you to be a Ranger. So I'm putting you on iggy for a few days, and when I get back, You should be at 4040 Scout.
But what about training? We're all ranged!
I'll senddifferent friends by to train all of you, and to drop off lots of stims. Oh, and Bilos?
Yes?
Stop whining. Rangers don't whine, we improvise. Ta-ta!
And with that, we were on our own. 6 strangers who had to get 4040 Scout in 2 days, and had to rely on each other. The other Scouts were pissed off as hell, and were talking of reporting her for griefing. One of the Scouts, a wookie, spoke up.
"Let's divvy up our abilities, and try to be as dependent on each others skills as possible. I have 4004 Marksman/0200 Medic/2000 Scout."
- one had 2222 Marksman/2000 Scout/Novice Medic
- one had novice Marksman/2000 Scout/1000 Medic
- one had 0300 Marksman/3000 Scout/Novice Medic
- one had 2000 Marksman/2002 Scout/Novice Medic
- I had 2003 Marksman/2301 Scout/2201 Medic
Why do you have so much trapping, dude? said one Scout. I have temper tantrums, and have to throw sh!t around, I replied with a smile.
After getting everyone to unwind, we all activated our waypoints to the Labor Outpost, and grouped at the entrance. We all counted to 3, activated our maskscent, and stepped out into the jungles of Yavin 4.
To be continued...
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