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Thread: Camping, any easy way....
works a treat
Grinan wrote:
JBMat wrote:
I saw an afk macroer camping one day, calling out for visitors. Very annoying. So I dragged an aggro into his camp - say bye bye to that camp's xp as he had to fight (afk) and as it was Lok, it took a while for him to slay said aggro, thereby causing the camp to go cold. Cold camp = no xp.
I felt so bad, when he saw me later and asked for training, I replied he could go find the macro AFK trainer, have a nice day. He figured it out.
Now that AFK people can't attack, it will be even more fun to watch the macroers get eaten.
Feel free to macro at your own risk.
JB
I'll keep this in mind if you're ever AFK macroing. What's good for the goose, certainly should be good for the gander.
JB AFK Macro? Obviously you're new around these parts, or haven't read a whole lot on either the Scout or Ranger forums. Ever.
Let me explain it this way:
- Black & White
- Hot & Cold
- Hard & Soft
- JB & AFK Macroing
What JB is saying in his own lovably prickly way is that most of the folks that you'll find at least here on the Ranger foum tend to, well... frown... on AFK macroing our profession. You don't learn as much if you AFK macro everything, and the fact that you made it all the way through Scout without seeming to know *any* of the tricks for gaining wilderness XP (calling pets / droids, hunt parties, fishing, fishing in a flooded camp, crafting camps while in a camp, healing yourself in a camp, placing your camp at certain really high traffic locations like by the Theed bridge on Naboo, etc) tends to raise the ire of certain folks. Given that JB is also the new Scout Corr, and this is just my opinion, you might do well to listen to him, read some of the things he's posted, and not just get snarky - the guy knows a LOT about what it takes to succeed as a Scout / Ranger. Personally I know that I've benefited tremendously just reading things posted by him and some of other "old timers" here about things like unbuffed / unarmored fighting, mon(k)ey making, etc.
So sure, your game, your money, your choice on how you play. But you don't get anywhere near as much out of afk'ing any part of Ranger. Just the few contacts I've made by being AT the keyboard to chat w/folks coming thru my camps mean I now have some great contacts for selling most organics when I need to. That's hard to do when you're AFK.
Message Edited by AragornSoS on 03-02-2005 12:14 PM
AragornSoS wrote:
JB AFK Macro? Obviously you're new around these parts, or haven't read a whole lot on either the Scout or Ranger forums. Ever.
Let me explain it this way:
- Black & White
- Hot & Cold
- Hard & Soft
- JB & AFK Macroing
LMAO 
How true... but I think you missed a few:
Acid & Base
HE & Fuse
Matter & Anti-Matter
1.1 pounds of uranium & 1.1 pounds of uranium
But, calling pets will give more xp only if they fight and need healing, right?
Oreet wrote:
A friend of mine is going for Squad leader, and had a brilliant/funny/crazy idea for survival xp.
He called one of his droids, and renamed it "PleaseVisitMyCamp".
He then set patrol points starting inside his camp just outside coronet, then had the droid walk into coronet, walk around in a large circle around the starport entrance, then return ot the camp. it then would repeat this path.
so while he said there crafting camps in practice mode for XP, some newer players and other curious people would follow the Binary Load Lifter droid all the way from the starport entrance to his camp. sure was a funny sight seeing 3 or 4 players following behind this slow moving droid.
hehe - this is this best scheme for getting easy survival xp yet!
Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Rifleperson
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