Ranger Archive

1) A master ranger level camp with the same bonus as the HTFB but much smaller so it takes less resources would be nice.

2) I also like cloning staions assuming you have to bind to them, they cost as least double what the normal does, and you come out with 10-20% more wounds than you do when cloning to an unbound station in the city.

3) I also like the evac camp with stipulations. It should be a last ditch only, in my opinion, I picture theemergency evac scene in star ship troopers over run bybugs and the shuttle finally shows up laying cover fire while the troops load.A couple of ideas for this are

a) Make it cost a lot of non ranger resources so you have to cary them around.

b) Cause it to auto spawn every creature withing a distance (300 M maybe).

c) Set all party members with a tef for all creatures and NPC's and cause all of the creatures to be

drawn tothe instalation from that distance. This could keep it to being an for emergency evac and

make it an interesting 5-10 min wait for the shuttle.

Just as a note I do think that the shuttle camp and fortifications, althoughI would like to see them as ranger camps, may make better adds to the SL line because of the nature of them.

We should have a camp which can call for a shuttle to evac the group and,even better if we could be more like a recon unit, be the first in, recce area, set camp and the friends in the group can head to the starport or shuttleport and take a flight direct to our camp. This would allow for alot of great assualt, hit and fade tactics or even quick escapes from hariy situations. Our value as master rangers would then really mean something to the group.

"Bravo one zero, this is charlie one. LZ is hot. Repeat, LZ is hot"

"Bravo one zero, roger that Charlie one. Assualt force ETA 2 mins."

man...thinking about that idea. We would feel so much pride if we could do that. When someone asks you what you do, you tell them. "Im a master ranger. We arethe first ones in...and the last ones out."

sigh..so anyway, who wants to crawl race with me?

I think the landing zone would be agreatidea for ranger if it was a completely different camp from the evac camp. One for in and one for out.

Thanks I didn't think of it that way before.

Did they ever fix those SL problems for you guys? I've heard that you took a beating in that last ugly patch.

Actually it would be cool if Rangers and SL's could somehow combine their efforts and make some uber camp. I'm sure this will never, ever happen though.

Yeah man, that would really be cool. and it would reallygive us a sense of pride in what we do. sure we may not be uber fighters but d-a-m-n, we would be one heck of a team playing class. And most of all,give us sense and satisfactionof what it means to be a ranger. Im a master ranger and i love the concept of it but on a practical level, its really only a title. tracking is nice but with the mounts coming out, i see the purpose of terrain negotiation going out of the window, not that it was really that big a diff to begin with as a master scout climbs just as fast as you. As a team player, ive really only got my tracking skills to offer. Conceal others i hardly use. the traps i never use. The high tech camp is an ooh ahhh factor for 2 weeks but i will say that it does give me and my friends the freedom of not having to return to the city until our BF gets too high. Other than that, im just a better meat, hide and bone harvester for my mates.

I do wish though, that the

- improved camps would include the options we have been talking about.

- new traps that were mentioned some time ago would materialise soon.

- add a heavy poison trap (Master Ranger)in the form of a dart that works on creatures only.

- Allow traps to work on player creatures and the trip trap that is supposed to work on npc's to also work on players.

- Give us a real difference in damage bonuses when it comes to attacking creatures that compliments whatever combat class we may take alongside the ranger class. for example, a master rifleman whois also a master rifleman does the same amout of damage as a master rifleman with no scout skills. If there is any difference, it is so small you dont even notice it. This would also go to show that the ranger is truely a master of his home, the outdoors.

im sure like many others before me, that at the end of the day, all we can really do is wait and hope that things will change for the better. As it is there are so many other classes out there that are well and truely gimped. chef, squad leader, droid engineers etc. So heres us, hanging on, hoping for a day where the sun will shine on us, making us feel that the dedication and patience to the class has been worth every moment.

Tenrai

Master Ranger | Master Rifleman

I also like the idea of an intesified single person camp. You throw the camp and it hits you with the equilavent of a wound heal pack A to all of your attributes, then healing proceeds as normal. All it would do is cut down on a time sink in game. It's not like a ranger would head back to town just to heal 20 wounds.