Ranger Archive
Thread: State of the Profession (Dec. 5)
"Wow. What a list! If they only opted to implement/fix 1% of these suggested changes/fixes I would be intensely happy!"
As would we all. 
In the new year, I will be performing some trimming of the list, with the forums assistance of course, in an attempt to reduce the bloat that has occurred over the past months...
- Hopefully we will have the list down to a trim and fit for use in the coming year.
Yea, the tophy head idea has been said before, but I think idea of it being radial menu option instead of harvesting is new. And I like that. Maybe, scale that skill up per creature level, so as you go up in ranger you can trophy higher and higher level creatures.
We want better traps, and at least one for NPC!!!! New Years present. Thow us a bone, a harvested bone. hehe
I know it is unimportant, but it is possible.....
What if the different camo kits actually affected the way your charachter looks? I know I use various camo trenchcoats to blend in visually, depending on the planet. If i am in PVP on naboo, I wear cammo so even if i am not on their radar, i am hard to see. Why can't the camo kits put branches and leaves on our outfits, or on Tantooine, cover colorful armour with dust. Something visual like that. Just a thought.
"or at least to the High Tech Field Base AND the Field Base."
I can go with that.
Oops, I just realized I should probably clarify this a little. I'd like for all currently existing Ranger Camps (High Tech Field Base, Field Base, and High Quality Camp Kit) to not disband during combat. I didn't mean to include any of the specialty camps that may be added in the future like the hunting blind.
Curse the lack of an edit button!
/envy NRaas' edit button
"I didn't mean to include any of the specialty camps that may be added in the future like the hunting blind."
I got the gist of the matter.
Hello everyone,
I am not a ranger, and I don't know if this is the right listing to add these comments, but I thought this is so important that I decided to add it to what is (in my view) the most important list in the ranger forum.
I brainstormed these ideas when I was browsing the entertainer forum. So, forgive me if these ideas are a repeat of previous suggestions, but here goes the posting I made on the dancer forum:
"I agree with the proposal of BF healing at the highest level camps, as a matter of fact, I envision several camps set out in rows by battlefields serving as mind healing bases, or one could even start to imagine nomadic groups of entertainers along with their bodyguards (battle profession players), and camp-setting rangersin what we could call (I guess) a circus. Really, I'm not kidding, and master CHs could tag along with exotic creatures to help the show along. I think that'd be awesome.
How would this work financially?
well the problem with this scenario is that u can't have, say, a clan war in the middle of the tattoinian desert because the cloning stations simply aren't there. The only way that this would work is either by:
A) ppl agree not to death blow (so u can get up from incapp and actually go and get healed at the camp with all the master DOCs and Master entertainers).This is achievable but very hard to keep ppl from doing it in the heat of battles, especially between rival clans.
or
B) portable cloning facilities. A true Master Ranger camp should no only offer BF healing, but also a limited cloning facility (say, a basic one, where u CANNOT keep stored cloning data or else there'd be no healing at all), but also a recruiter (ifit is a factioned M Ranger) so u can:
1) die
2) clone ON LOCATION
3) heal-up as much as u wish
4) declare ON LOCATION
5) god kill some more, without losing a beat
Like that we can have epic clan battles wherever we wish! Have u noticed that we have planets that are 16x16km and all the raids and battles HAVE to take place around towns? Not only would the fun gradient explode for all professions, but also, I can only imagine how much revenue doctors, rangers, and entertainers would make each time they got contracted to support a clan through a battle.
Think about it ppl, all these professions are fundamental to the game and they are right now, completely underused."
ok, does this seems unreasonale? I don't think so, a cloning facility and a recruiter serve a lot better purpose than a crafting facility (isn't that what the top camps have right now?), I mean, how many of u actually have had the sudden need to help a crafter in the middle of the desert? Maybe here and there, but crafters usually craft at home. It seems to me a waste of resources. The top camps should not just be a camp! It should be a movable base, a minor headquarters almost, from where all the support to a large battle could take place.
Peace, Iur - Kauri
sorry, but i have to severely disagree with this. Come ON!!! Rangers live in the wilderness. How the heck could we figure how to make something as complicated as a mini cloning facility out of bone and hide (our primary resources)? This is just redic.
I also take offence to your idea of Ranger camps being used as a "circus". This is just wrong. Our camps should be used as a base for fighting not some silly sideshow. We want to be a usefull proffession that is viable in PvE and also PvP, not a silly group of people that pander to the needs of entertainers. This is the kind of suggestion that HURTS the ranger proffession.
I hate to flame but sometimes, I think it's the only way to keep people from posting suggestions that serve only the person who is posting and in the end detracts from others. This is just one of the few times I wish a post could just be deleted. Sorry, I don't mean to offend, but this thread is a list of issues/suggestions that directly and POSITIVELY affect the Ranger proffession. This post is doesn't help us because it's proposals are so far-fetched that a dev might not take the rest of the post seriously. Come on, this idea is so over the top it's almost sad.
No Ranger should be able to have a portable cloning station. That would make NO sense. And the idea of a recruiter is equally silly- what, did we make one out of the meat and hide we harvested? Are we able to create humanoids from the corpses of dead animals. Grrrrr. sorry to flame, it's just I don't think non-rangers should be posting on what has become an important thread in looking towards the futurre.
In summary, since I have calmed down, I disagree with this previous post on priciple because none of the suggestions would be viable and helpful to Rangers---two requirements all suggestions should try to hold to. This is hopefully my last flame post. I just feel so strongly about Rangers as a group that I feel personally offended by the idea of us being hosts to some kind of CIRCUS. bah. okay, I feel better now.
"No Ranger should be able to have a portable cloning station."
Personally, I happen to agree...
- Sounds more like a encampment that the Squad Leader profession should be pushing for, rather than us.
"it's just I don't think non-rangers should be posting on what has become an important thread in looking towards the futurre."
Everyoneshould beallowed to post their ideas, even non-rangers, and even the Hollow...
- Though the requestsdo have to get through some scrutiny before they end up on the list.
The cloning station idea has been brought up multiple times in the past, and has been shot down each time...
- I would not worry too much about it.
Phenix, take it easy man, hehe I was just brainstorming about how to make the game more fun, that's all, I just think that we need a way to have battles in the middle of nowhere in these huge planets, because they serve only one purpose now, camping, killing, and sightseeing. I love all this, but there's still no way to do large field battles. Not without an on-location healing base or camp or whatever u want to call it.
And who's going to producesuch camps or bases? I mean, if not rengers then faction ranks have to start coming into this.But I think u're right, this might be a skill to associateto faction ranks, or combat medics, but hey, it was an idea.
And by the way, what's so wrong with circuses?U never had fun at a circus?
Peace
NRAAS,
As a Master Ranger who hasn't been able to play since vehicles have been added, I've seen one item that concerns me that hasn't been mentioned in this thread..........................
Tracking has become obsolete! No one cares if a Ranger can track because now they can cover more area more quickly with vehicles. Sure we Rangers my still use the skill for ourselves, but from what I've read no one else is bothering to seek out Rangers for big hunts because they simply don't need them any longer. Also, if you happen to be a PvP Ranger even tracking players will be next to impossible. If the players you are after hop on their bikes then they exceed the 500m range in no time flat. And since you can't track while driving, you can't keep up. That would seem to work just the opposite as well. If you are "guarding" a group by simply checking for approaching players, those on vehicles can slip up on you without having ever shown up on your tracking list.
We need something that will make us ALWAYS a desired addition to any hunting party regardless of content updates!