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Thread: Concealment- making money
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WornTraveler
Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:22 am
#1
The other day I was walking into the Syren mission, concealed, and easily completed it. Incase you haven't tried it out yet (SPOILER) there are a bunch of mercs around it, and it can be fatal to walk in their without being buffed, armored, or a really good fighter. Anyways, there was a smuggler there as well, he was a rebel (I am Imperial), and he asked me how I got in so easily. I explained, and he asked if I could conceal him. I said sure- but for 5K. I really didn;t want to help a rebel on the mission, and figured he wouldnt pay. But he said "ok, cool", tipped me the 5K, and I concealed him.
I walekd a bit away from the crash site and made a macro advertising I was concealing people for 5K- in fifteen minutes, you wouldnt believe how many people showed up. In an hour I hadnearly 100K and, then started getting repeats for people who had gone back to get the next mission. Luckily, I had stockpiled camoflauge kits, since I usually get a bunch so I dont have to go out for more for a while.
Now, this is neaither the fastest nor the most economical way of making cash, but it does get you money if you are a bad fighter (or dont have JTL, which is a big cash maker when you get into higher levels). Also, most of the people I concealed hadnt even known what a ranger could do, and one guy didnt even know the profession existed. Its always good to get the ranger-info out to the community :-D
Message Edited by WornTraveler on 03-27-2005 09:29 AM
Puck_Starfire
Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:18 pm
#2
An Imp Ranger? What is the universe coming to? I dont do concealment. I walk right in and whap the dunkers on the head, and they all fall down, and I stand there amongst dead bodies. My biggest reason not to use concealment are the resources. I dont feel like finding various planet specific resources in very small quantities that are unique only to that conceal pack. That and Mask Scent works better; I just kill off aggro NPC's.
Sanche
Sun Mar 27, 2005 7:23 pm
#3
I just started useing Conceal myself and I love it. I'll fly into Theed, hit F7 and Im good to go. Im a novice 2 Handed Swordsmen but I usually am just dropping into deliver hides or Milk or some other resourse and don't want to bother w/ the Stormies. Good idea about money makeing, could take a while to make "good money", but we're Rangers, we don't need that much... ; )
BioEngine
Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:30 pm
#4
Hehe, I just picked up the first box, and I think that I'll be using it more often now, since I sometimes like to go Combatant but can't stand up to the stormies 
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Message Edited by BioEngine on 03-28-2005 08:29 AM
Puck_Starfire
Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:43 pm
#5
Yea, Stormies by themselves is fine. Then they threw in a couple Novas. Still, it's a challenge but fun. But SOE has this thing of overdoing it, and decided to throw Novas in with almost every squad of Stormies. If there's a ST Squad, odds are it has at least 1 Nova.
Phenix1050
Sun Mar 27, 2005 10:56 pm
#6
just so you know, Bio-- you can use any camo kit, even if you can't make it yet. Ask a Master Ranger to make you a crate of each type of camo kit, and you can use it yourself.
Arialias
Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:03 pm
#7
Ok im working on Master Rangher and have a question on this concealment thing. Has anyone how well does it work against NPC's? I was a master ranger a long time ago and it didnt work all that well. What I am thinking is Endor and how well it does against the NPC's on that planet. Especially that little bunker up north.
WornTraveler
Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:56 pm
#8
Concealment is not meant for combat- that is, unlike mask scent, it will, as far as I know, break very quickly when you attack. From the way I understand it, the system checks every minute ro so and decides if you cover is broken-- so the longer you stay in the search radius, the more likely you will be found out. Camo is meant, really, to get in and out in a hurry, not to engage the enemy. But then again, this is all me guessing based on my experience.
WornTraveler
Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:24 am
#9
Puck_Starfire wrote:
An Imp Ranger? What is the universe coming to? I dont do concealment. I walk right in and whap the dunkers on the head, and they all fall down, and I stand there amongst dead bodies. My biggest reason not to use concealment are the resources. I dont feel like finding various planet specific resources in very small quantities that are unique only to that conceal pack. That and Mask Scent works better; I just kill off aggro NPC's.
Well, for those not as mighty as you, there is camo to hide from dangerous NPCs. The lfie of the ranger, I think, is more fit for sneaking then bashing.
Arialias
Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:37 am
#10
WornTraveler wrote:
Concealment is not meant for combat- that is, unlike mask scent, it will, as far as I know, break very quickly when you attack. From the way I understand it, the system checks every minute ro so and decides if you cover is broken-- so the longer you stay in the search radius, the more likely you will be found out. Camo is meant, really, to get in and out in a hurry, not to engage the enemy. But then again, this is all me guessing based on my experience.
I realize that, but i was wondering how far down in the bunker could you make it before being caught by the droids...
Rhyeal
Tue Mar 29, 2005 5:50 am
#11
Arialias wrote:
WornTraveler wrote:
Concealment is not meant for combat- that is, unlike mask scent, it will, as far as I know, break very quickly when you attack. From the way I understand it, the system checks every minute ro so and decides if you cover is broken-- so the longer you stay in the search radius, the more likely you will be found out. Camo is meant, really, to get in and out in a hurry, not to engage the enemy. But then again, this is all me guessing based on my experience.
I realize that, but i was wondering how far down in the bunker could you make it before being caught by the droids...
2-3 steps maybe? anything like a DJM NPC will break your camo instantly. Mellichae broke my camo as soon as i got within 65m of him.
WornTraveler
Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:04 pm
#12
Rhyeal wrote:
Arialias wrote:
WornTraveler wrote:
Concealment is not meant for combat- that is, unlike mask scent, it will, as far as I know, break very quickly when you attack. From the way I understand it, the system checks every minute ro so and decides if you cover is broken-- so the longer you stay in the search radius, the more likely you will be found out. Camo is meant, really, to get in and out in a hurry, not to engage the enemy. But then again, this is all me guessing based on my experience.
I realize that, but i was wondering how far down in the bunker could you make it before being caught by the droids...
2-3 steps maybe? anything like a DJM NPC will break your camo instantly. Mellichae broke my camo as soon as i got within 65m of him.
Beat me to it. Like I said, it is not meant to engage the enemy. The only reason anyone would run that close to the bunker would be to fight, unless you were a total newb and it was a complete accident that you ran into it. I am assuming the devs made the NPCs invulnerable to it so taht we wouldnt get an upper hand in it- afetr all, we aren;t a combat profession.
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