Ranger Archive
Thread: Regarding the 19 questions.
Calculus_Entropy wrote:
I changed the last typo and the last sentence...better?
Looks fine to me. I just hope we get an interesting answer instead of the usual babble.
Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
Eclipse Server
whoever said that a camel was a horse designed by committee, never visited the ranger boards
For about a month now, I've been slowly dropping Ranger and then scout skills. At first I really missed the additional information in the creature examine window, and now without any scout I really miss terrain negotiation. It's been since release that I've not had ANY scout skills and it's a really odd experience, even just getting around the terrain in the player cities sometimes. I'm still on this forum because in my heart I want to be a ranger, but I needed to go experience some other things while Rangers didn't have anything interesting coming in the near future. For reference I became master Ranger on October 2nd, last year, after casual play starting on launch day.
With that I want to say I really like where the thread has gone since Sunday, and I'm also sorry I missed the weekend of this thread. Today while I was offline I read the first page of this thread and had a long post written out in notepad regarding what question I wanted to ask. I had intended to post this question for discussion:
"What were the intentions of the developers when they added camoflauge kits to the Ranger's skill tree?"
This would be in order to draw the attention to the dev's that we thought Camoflauge should be more than a resource using MaskScent, and hopefully make them realize that it needed far far more scope to be viable as an elite skill. Then I got home and read the other 2 pages, and realized my question had been answered: "To differentiate ranger from scout." So at this point I believe the current question that, which harkens back to a day before patches, is the right question to ask. I believe it puts the devs in a position where they are answering a question that was asked over 8 months ago. The irony in the effectiveness of the question repeated so many months later is staggering. Back then Ranger's weren't in demand for organics on the scale they are currently, the GCW wasn't in effect or nearly as noticable as it is now, and our profession was in better shape and more wanted then than it is now.
With that I believe this should be our current question as posted in nice yellow by Calc:
"What are the plans, if any, to differentiate the Ranger profession from the Scout profession and will this happen in the form of a Revamp or can it be done via minipublishes/hotfixes?"
Now to play the other side. What do we think the Dev's will answer this with? Does anyone think this will be "answered" or does everyone that's been with the profession a while, like myself believe they will respond with a question? I for one think a response similar to this is in order. "What plans does the community think should happen in order to differentiate Scout and Ranger?" The real pessimist in me says they will answer the question with, "There are no plans forthcoming."
Message Edited by Calculus_Entropy on 04-26-2004 04:44 PM