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is there a way to macro the areatrack command to automaticaly search for animals for people? having to select it from the screen is annoying.

As far as I've been able to find out, there is no method to currently do this. Sorry.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/CH (4/4/2/4)/Rifleman (3/0/0/0)
Eclipse Server

"having to select it from the screen is annoying."

Nemo0 is correct... As far as the rest of us know, there is no way to pass in the option at the command line.

We do have the ability requested though... So perhaps sometime in the future, the option might be added.

You mean areatrack actually works. I thought it was a great concept, but so far, it's as useless as anything else in being a Master Ranger

Areatrack animal: Oh look... there's that graul mauler baby over there...

Areatrack people: Oh look... there's that force sensitive person over there...

Areatrack player: Oh look... there's that annoying jerk over there...

Heh, it has it's uses...

I use it alot and like it, wished the range was just a tad larger though.

I enjoy stalking my friends. Area Track is pretty helpful, but it takes a few tracks to actually get accurate. Sometimes it'll tell you a creature is NW, when it's really just West.

I have found aretrack to work correctly less than half the time. Usually it show the tracked item, disnace and direction fairly accurately for me. The biggest problem that I have is that things are always spawning in that didn't show up on the track. I am tracking such and such an animal and have none in my screen. I report this to my hunting partners. We walk over the next hill and there they are. Only 100m away from the track. And I always feel foolish.

If you are having trouble with /areatrack, have a look at http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=21795. It's a small guide I put up to try and help people use /areatrack effectively. Let me know if it is helpful or if you have anything to add.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/CH (4/4/2/4)/Rifleman (3/0/0/0)
Eclipse Server

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Daspeco wrote:
I have found aretrack to work correctly less than half the time. Usually it show the tracked item, disnace and direction fairly accurately for me. The biggest problem that I have is that things are always spawning in that didn't show up on the track. I am tracking such and such an animal and have none in my screen. I report this to my hunting partners. We walk over the next hill and there they are. Only 100m away from the track. And I always feel foolish.

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I think area tracking works fine. The problem is that people are expecting too much of it. It's not a magic radar that tells you everything that's nearby. It's reading tracks on the ground. If something shows up over the next hill that you've been looking for and it didn't show up on your tracking, ever think that maybe whatever you were tracking had been coming from the other direction... so there were no tracks to read on your side of the hill. Or when it says something is SW and it's really W. The tracks could go SW, and then they turned... you just aren't checking the tracks often enough.

If you really think about it, and use some logic, it all makes sense...