Ranger Archive

Color Reference

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• Yellow: Ranger Top Issue
  
• Red: Will be Affected by Future Changes
  
• Magenta: Officially Announced / On Test Center

Overview

• The concept of the Ranger has been quite contentious among the forum members.
  
  
  
  • There are those that wish a profession along the lines of the Wilderness Ranger: The ultimate outdoorsman
    
    
    
    • This position follows the initial design of the profession.
    
    
  • There are those that want to pattern the profession on the Military Ranger: Survivalist and Combat specialist
    
    
    
    • This position follows the Antarian Ranger ideal from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
  
  
• These views allow for a wide range of what should be the top priority for the profession. But most arguments boil down to two sides:
  
  
  
  • PvE: As the majority of players tend towards engaging the games creatures, a great many suggestions have been made to improve our proficiency in this area
    
  • PvP: But there is a vocal contingent that want far more effectiveness in the GCW, as once a player achieves Master, there is little available in the profession to directly aid in this end game.
  
  
• In the end however, we are all interested in fleshing out our quasi-complete profession with skills that benefit all sides.

Economics

• As most of the equipment we produce can only be sold to Master Scouts or other Rangers, there is little demand outside the profession.
  
• Our mainstay is the same as the Scouts: Harvested Resources. In this area, we would love to excel far beyond the Scouting profession, but at the moment most rangers don't feel the harvesting skill is sufficiently different from our Scouting brethren.
  
• With the addition of /areatrack, many have found a new avenue for income, though the skill still is still far too limiting to solely rely on.
  
• In general, there does not seem to be much complaint regarding monetary issues.

Interdependence

• Being Rangers most of us enjoy our independence and fight fervently to ensure that we stay one of the most independent professions.
  
• However, it is in the best interest of game as a whole to have some interdependence, and several Rangers find it odd that polymer was removed from our camps, leaving only traps with resources that we can not supply using our own skills.
  
• On the whole though, we love our freedom from other professions, relying on others only for weapons, armor, and healing.

Bugs

This section lists known issues with the current implementation of the system

Camps

• Issue with Ranger camps not actually repelling aggressive creatures
  
  
  
  • Request for deployed camps to inhibit new agressive spawn points from forming near the camp
  
  
• Issue with Field Base and High Tech Field Base healing radius not being large enough to contain all the chairs deployed
  
• Camps are insurable for some reason, and therefore get added into the cost when using Insure All
  
  
  
  • Most rangers agree that camps should not decay, and therefore do not need to be insured

/areatrack

• Issue with not locating creatures that are a certain distance aways, namely around 100 to 130m.
  
  
  
  • We suspect this phenomena is the effect of the spawn system not adding creatures to the environment until a player approaches.
  
  
• Issue with the vertical plane. Namely problems using it on mountainous terrain
  
• Issue with Transport Shuttles and Droids being listed in the animal tracker
  
• Issue with extreme sparseness or complete absence of spawn outside of a certain radius around towns.
  
• Issue with /areatrack not picking up lairs that have not yet spawned any creatures
  
  
  
  • This is a rather irritating issue that limits the commands usefulness away from the more travelled areas

/conceal

• Reports of some Gang Member NPCs ignoring /conceal entirely, and attacking concealed players without breaking concealment.
  
  
  
  • There are occurrences where extremely poor faction rating with a gang may be impacting concealment.
    
  • forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=ranger&message.id=13682
    
  • There are occurrences of Humanoids aggroing at a distance of 64m with or without the use of /conceal. Possibly the NPCs are aggroing before /conceal is being checked.
  
  
• Issue with creatures attacking without checking /conceal or /maskscent beforehand
  
  
  
  • This has been noted with greater frequency since the November Publish
  
  
• Issue where lair defenders (creatures spawned near the end of a lair's life) will attack nearby players who are not engaged in combat, without checking conceal beforehand
  
• Issue with not receiving any Wilderness Survival Experience for crafting Camo Kits
  
• Issue with concealed group members being attacked during combat even if they succeeded in concealment and did not initiate attack
  
• Issue where a non-ranger can not remove /conceal that was applied to them, because they do not have the ability to use the /conceal command itself
  
• Issue with attempting to apply /maskscent after /conceal wears off normally. Rangers receive a message stating that /conceal is still active.
  
• Issue with immediately applying /maskscent after /conceal breaks. Apparently the /maskscent acts like /conceal (checking against humanoids) for the remainder of the session.
  
• Issue with travelling disabling /conceal, and once on the other side /maskscent can be used to reenable the /conceal functionality.
  
• The issues described above may be causing a "invalid concealment", where the state is shown as active, but none of the creatures check the state.
  
• The wrong message is displayed when /conceal wears off... You receive the /maskscent message.

Traps

• Issue with using a trap and not receiving any feedback at all (neither success nor failure mesages)
  
• Issue with the last trap in a stack tending to fail more often than the others.
  
• Issue with traps not working in Caves.
  
  
  
  • If experience is the concern, then perhaps the answer would be to not provide any experience for traps thrown in caves
  
  
• Issue with traps remaining in the game space after being thrown, and appearing as white dots on the Radar
  
• Certain traps can be used over and over again, on the same creature, without any delay, for continuous experience

/forage

• Issue with receiving a "Inventory Full" message when your inventory still has space available

/examine

• Issue with certain animals not displaying all the examine data available at the viewers skill level.
  
  
  
  • Posts regarding Resistances being missing for instance
    
  • Other posts about seeing the resistances but nothing else
  
  
• Issue with BE clones not displaying their Special Attacks properly
  
• Issue with BE clones not displaying their Difficulty Level properly

Harvesting

• Issue where you accidentally harvest a non-existing resource (hide off a Hermit Spider) by using /harvest hide, and after that you are not allowed to harvest the correct resource.

Skill Experience

• The experience caps are apparently still set to pre-patch values, and were not adjusted with the increased Scout experience requirements

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Ranger Threads
State of the Profession
The Outdoorsman
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Wishlist

This section lists various proposals and requests to solve issues related to a system, or enhance the system for greater appeal.

Traps

• Request to use traps on Creature Handler pets (receiving no exp for doing so)
  
• Request to experiment on:
  
  
  
  • Quantity of uses per trap unit
    
  • Duration of effect of a trap
  
  
• Request to display the effective ranges and duration of effects for traps on the /examine window for the items
  
• Request for a macro command for throwing traps, such as /throwtrap bonespur
  
  
  
  • The primary element of this request is the ability to choose the trap type on the command line.
  
  
• Request for all traps to have HAM icons, so other group members can see what is currently in effect.
  
• Request to be able to throw traps faster
  
  
  
  • Several Rangers have also noticed that speed of trap throws may be tied to the default attack speed of whatever weapon the player is carrying
    
  • If this is true, would it be possible to change it?
    
  • The Trap Launcher request in the Wishlist could be used to solve this issue
  
  
• Several Rangers have noticed that disarming Minefields does not seem to get any easier at Master
  
  
  
  • Request that minefields be easier to disarm as Trapping increases
  
  
• Modular Ground Traps
  
  
  
  • The ground based mechanism have no functionality themselves, instead they are used as containers that deploy the traps contained within them when a creature approaches
    
  • The slots available in the schematics are available to fill with existing traps to produce whatever effects the Ranger may desire within his concoction
  
  
  
  
  • Using a Lure within a ground based trap requires that the player target a creature before deploying the trap, and the creature will be drawn towards the combination trap
    
  • If no Lure is used, the ground trap remains until either detonated normally by a creature or until the player leaves the area
    
    
    
    • An unlured trap should provide a significant bonus to the success of the trap effects, to compensate for the effort involved in setting the trap itself and getting to detonate successfully
  
  
  
  
  • Ground based traps can not be dropped during combat
  
  
  
  
  • Basic Ground Trap
    
    
    
    • Available at Advanced Trapping II
      
    • Contains 1 available slot for a trap effect
    
    
  • Improved Ground Trap
    
    
    
    • Available at Advanced Trapping III
      
    • Contains 2 available slots for trap effects
    
    
  • High Quality Ground Trap
    
    
    
    • Available at Advanced Trapping IV
      
    • Contains 3 available slots for trap effects
    
    
  • Exemplary Ground Trap
    
    
    
    • Available at Master Ranger
      
    • Contains 4 available slots for trap effects
  
  
• Request for Trap Launcher
  
  
  
  • Created by the Weaponsmith profession
    
  • Certification to use the device would be provided at Master Ranger
    
  • Primarily the item would be used to improve the success rate of traps against higher level creatures, which is a large issue once a player reaches Master
    
  • The quality of the device would affect the bonus to:
    
    
    
    • Distance: increasing the range of a trap up to the maximum 64m
      
    • Accuracy: increasing the chance of successfully landing a trap on a big game creature
    
    
  • The device would lob traps at a faster rate than by hand, and could be used while moving
    
  • The device would need to be loaded prior to operation with existing traps
    
  • The device would allow players to fire traps without having to stop moving
  
  
• Request for Lure trap
  
  
  
  • Creature is targeted and trap is deployed
    
  • The targeted creature is drawn to the location where the trap was initiated
  
  
• Request for Ultrasonic trap
  
  
  
  • Creature that is targeted is unable to use a Ranged attack for the duration of the effect, as its glands are being disrupted by the ultra-high frequency sound
  
  
• Request for Big Bang trap
  
  
  
  • Creature is scared away like /WarningShot
  
  
• Request for Glow Net Trap:
  
  
  
  • Area effect Melee defense debuff
    
  • A large net is launched into the crowd, rendering everyone more vunerable to close range assault
  
  
• Request for Radioactive Tracer Trap:
  
  
  
  • Area effect Range defense debuff
    
  • The trap renders a glowing radioactive particle cloud aerosal making all that come in contact more visible from afar
  
  
• Request for Tracer Net Trap:
  
  
  
  • Area effect combination Melee and Ranged defense debuff
    
  • Deploys a net dusted with radioactive particles, both disrupting melee defense and increasing visibility to ranged attack
  
  
• Request for Goop Trap:
  
  
  
  • Area effect Phecnacine
    
  • A sticky goop is spread around the ground impeding the opponent's movement but not stopping them completely
  
  
• Request for Festering Bile Trap:
  
  
  
  • Area effect Stink bomb
    
  • An obnoxious stench exudes from the trap and wafts into the faces of everything nearby dropping their defenses to state effects
  
  
• Request for a Bola trap
  
  
  
  • affects a single creature, performing a knockdown effect
  
  
• Request for a Tranquilizer dart trap
  
  
  
  • affects a single creature, knocking the creature unconcious for a duration of time
    
  • any damage incurred on the creature will immediately awaken it, and it will be none too happy
    
    
    
    • This means to successfully use it in combat, combatants must peace out or risk an auto-attack immediately awakening the creature
    
    
  • If a nearby creature is attacked that the dozing creature would normally assist, the sleep would be broken
  
  
• Request for a Shockwave trap
  
  
  
  • an area effect version of the Bola trap
  
  
• Request for a Sleeping Gas trap
  
  
  
  • an area effect version of the Tranquilizer
    
  • useful in unexpected situations where a spawn appears, catching a hunting party completely off guard
  
  
• Request for a Baby Creature Trap
  
  
  
  • A creature container can be used with the /capture command available at Novice Ranger to capture a baby creature and store it within the player's datapad
    
  • A player's Trapping skill would determine the CL of baby creature that player could ever hope to trap
    
  • The only option available for the creature would be to release it, returning it to the game space so that a Creature Handler can attempt to tame it
    
  • Using the datapad would limit the number of creatures a Ranger could collect for transport
    
    
    
    • The limit would increase in skill: Starting with 5 at Novice and increasing 2 for each branch of Advanced Tracking and 3 more for Master
  
  
• Request to use traps on Humanoid NPCs and Players at the Ranger level.
  
  
  
  • Alternatively, create new traps in the Scout profession that affect humanoids, and then let the Bounty Hunter have the more advanced humanoid traps
  
  
• Request for anti-turret traps
  
  
  
  • The effect would be to "gum" up the works on the turret disabling it for a period of time
  
  
• Request for a trap usable by Creature Handlers (but created by us) that could be used on target creatures to improve taming success

Tracking

• Request for the command to allow the user to input the target type on the command line
  
  
  
  • The command would work like /areatrack animal, /areatrack people, /areatrack players
  
  
• Request for /areatrack all at the Master Ranger level
  
  
  
  • The tracking option would list both Animals and Humanoids in the same list for easy lookup
  
  
• Request to increase the range of the command to 1000m
  
  
  
  • However in order for this to be useful, a greater increase in the dynamic spawn rate would need to occur at a greater radius around the player
    
  • The inclusion of fast transportation in the form of mounts and vehicles requires that at the very least Player Tracking be increased in range
    
  • The progression could be: Novice: 250m, Tracking I: 400m, Tracking II: 550m, Tracking III: 700m, Tracking IV: 850m, Master: 1000m
  
  
• Request to be able to use /areatrack while mounted
  
• Request for a /track command
  
  
  
  • /track could work similiar to the destroy mission terminal system but without the cash payout
    
  • Such a command would prompt the player to select a creature native to the region and then produce a lair or herd (a spawn with no lair) for that creature type in the vicinity.
    
  • For players, the tracking ability would end at the boundary of civilization, displaying a waypoint only to the city itself, rather than a specific location of the target.
    
  • If the target player is concealed, tracking would be based on a comparison of the target's camoflauge skill versus the tracker's tracking skill
    
  • Request that targeted player receive "You are being stalked by a Ranger" system messages during the course of the tracking
    
  • Request that the skill be able to spawn high level "rare" creatures
    
    
    
    • A player would only able to spawn such creatures on occasion, perhaps using a long delay timer between uses.
  
  
• Request for a Spawn Point tracking option in /areatrack. This way we can track lairs which haven't spawned any creatures yet.
  
  
  
  • The option would list off the current lairs / herds in the area, providing the name of the creature that spawns from each lair
  
  
• Request for the /areatrack results to be display in a Sortable List Window
  
  
  
  • The List window would have separate columns for Name, Direction, Distance
    
  • Clicking on the header for the column would toggle between ascending / descending sort order
    
  • Resizing the window would increase the size of the List portion of the window, rather than the height of the Mesage portion
  
  
• Request for a Refresh button on the list window, so once a player has traversed a bit of distance they don't need to reselect their choice of track.
  
• Request that players with /conceal enabled would not appear in /areatrack results
  
• Request option to toggle off the Stalking message
  
• Request for a Pet tracking option
  
• Request for a Droid tracking option
  
• Request for a /MakeFalseTrail command
  
  
  
  • When used, /MakeFalseTrail would save the current position of the Ranger for later use
    
  • If another Ranger attempts to track the player, there would be a chance that the tracker would be directed to the saved position instead
    
  • The false trail would eventually dissipate and need to be refreshed
  
  
• Request for trained Bloodhound creatures to aid in tracking
  
  
  
  • A creature could be trained by a Creature Handler to increase the Tracking skill of its master
    
  • The bloodhound pet would increase the range of tracking, due to its more acute senses
    
  • The enhancement would only be available while the creature is called
  
  
• Request for the Hunt Master title to be changed to Tracker

Creature Combat

• Request for the Creature-to-Hit to:
  
  
  
  • apply to special moves
    
  • apply to the trap success rate
    
  • affect Creature Handler pets (if it doesn't already)
  
  
• Request to associate a Dodge bonus with the Creature knowledge skill that is only used while being attacked by a creature
  
• Request for an occassional critical hit to be incurred, providing a 2x damage bonus to the creature
  
  
  
  • The percent chance of such a critical hit would increase as more Creature Knowledge is accumulated
  
  
• The Creature Knowledge skill can be used to define a bonus to the damage incurred on creatures
  
  
  
  • An increasing bonus on attacks up to a maximum of 1.25 at Master
  
  
• Request for a Studied Creature system
  
  
  
  • A player would choose a creature to study, and after killing a certain number of the creatures (50-100), the player would receive an accuracy and damage bonus against that creature
    
  • Each level of Tracking would increase the number of creatures that can be studied at any one time
    
  • A creature can be "unstudied" to free up the slot for a different creature
    
    
    
    • When this happens the bonuses are lost for the old creature, and the kill count for the creature would be reset to zero
  
  
• Request for a command that can be used to increase damage against creatures for a certain duration.
  
  
  
  • This /SkilledStrike command would provide a bonus to the damage of the next couple of attacks against a creature
  
  
• Request for a group Creature combat bonus
  
• Request for a /feignDeath that works only against creatures
  
• Request for a skill that reduces the chance of a Death Blow
  
  
  
  • As the skill increases, there would be less chance of a creature performing a deathblow when the Ranger is incapacitated
    
  • The effect would only work if /maskscent or /conceal are enabled. The reason would be that the creature could lose track of the player once he stops moving.
  
  
• Request for the ability to craft Weapon Powerups




• The effect would be an increase in the damage to Creatures
  
• The powerup would be usable on any type of weapon

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Ranger Threads
State of the Profession
The Outdoorsman
(please refresh once you arrive to receive the latest version)

Camoflauge

• Request for a success message when a conceal check succeeds
  
  
  
  • Once a Ranger caps out in experience, they no longer receive the tell tale experience gain that shows a check was performed
  
  
• Request to be able to use the /conceal and /maskscent commands while mounted
  
• Request that the success rate of /conceal be increased to 99% against an opponent of difficulty level 25
  
• Request for grease paint graphic on your character when /conceal is active
  
• Request for a /combatConceal command
  
  
  
  • Available at Wayfaring II would work as a buff, decreasing an opponent's chance-to-hit the concealed player.
    
  • This command would work on all forms of opponents: Creatures, Humanoids NPCs, CH Pets, Faction Pets, and Players.
    
  • The command would use a camo kit specific to the current planet
    
  • This command is not usable on other players
    
  • There is no check per opponent as there is with /conceal, rather a command named /reveal allows opponents to remove the effect
    
  • There would be a duration for the effect, similiar in length to /conceal
    
  • The to-hit modifier would have to be significant enough to ensure that being combat concealed would be an worthwhile advantage during combat situations.
    
  • It can enabled at the same time as /conceal or /maskscent, just in case the concealment fails and combat ensues
    
  • Opponent pets (Creatures, Faction troopers, etc.) would also have the "to-hit" modifier applied to their attacks
    
  • The skill would only have an effect while outside of a city region, allowing another civilization-centric profession (such as Smuggler, Commando, BH) to one day have a more high-tech approach to concealment for use in the city.
    
  • The command /reveal available at Wayfaring I can be used to reveal a specified target.
    
    
    
    • When used against an opponent with /combatConceal, the chance of success should be based on a comparison of the two opponent's camoflauge skill.
      
    • As /combatConceal does not have a check like /conceal, this skill would be used as the counter-command.
  
  
• Request for an damage enhancing command:
  
  
  
  • The command can not be used in combat mode, and only while /combatConceal is in effect
    
  • The command would initiate a 15 second timer, the first attack performed within that time would have the bonus applied
    
  • If an attack is not performed within the timer, a conceal check is performed with the possibility of losing the concealment
    
  • Whether the attack landed or not, the player would be lose the conceal effect and its associated bonus
    
  • /ambush1:
    
    
    
    • Available at Wayfaring II
      
    • Would provide a 1.5x damage increase
    
    
  • /ambush2:
    
    
    
    • Available at Master Ranger
      
    • Would provide a 3x damage increase
  
  
• Request for a a command called /hide
  
  
  
  • Available at Master Ranger
    
  • The Player must be wearing a ghillie suit to enact the skill, restricting the commands use to Rangers.
    
    
    
    • The quality of the ghillie suit dictates the chance of being revealed during the duration of the command.
    
    
  • The command would immediately place the player into a prone position
    
  • A 15 second wait timer would be initiated
    
    
    
    • The timer would stop players from vanishing without giving opponents a chance to attack
    
    
  • The character would vanish completely off radar and from the main window
    
    
    
    • If the player performs any action, movements or otherwise, the player will be instantly revealed
    
    
  • Upon being revealed a 10 second timer is initiated where the player is unable to initiate combat
    
    
    
    • If the player is attacked by someone else however, the timer ends and the player can retaliate immediately
      
      
      
      • A player can not use /duel while hidden or during the revealed timer. This way they can not bypass the timer by having a friend duel them.
      
      
    • A player can not use /hide again until this timer runs out
    
    
  • The command can not be performed while in combat
  
  
• Ability to experiment on:
  
  
  
  • Camo kits should have two experimentation lines:
    
  • Quantity: Increases the number of uses available per unit
    
  • Quality: Increases the "to-hit" bonus produced by the concealment
  
  
• Request for concealed players to not be listed on the /areatrack listing
  
• /maskscent can be used on vehicles to gain experience without any risk to the player
  
  
  
  • /maskscent and /conceal should be disabled while riding a vehicle
    
  • But both skills should still be available for use while riding a creature mount
    
  • Perhaps no experience for using the skills should be provided while riding
  
  
• Request for concealed Jedi be more difficult for Bounty Hunters to track
  
• Request for /conceal to be able to impersonate one of the local creatures.
  
  
  
  • They would appear as a creature on the main window.
    
  • Overt players would only be able to impersonate aggressive creatures, sa that their red radar dot would not stand out.
    
  • Once attacked, the concealment would break.
    
    
    
    • If attacked by a player who would not normally be able to attack the player, combat would not initiate, but concealment would still be broken
  
  
• Request for a Ghillie Suit
  
  
  
  • The suit would be Tailor made but only wearable by those players with the Wayfaring II skill
    
  • Suggestion that it resemble a overcoat or cloak with an army camoflauge pattern
    
    
    
    • Wookiees should either be able to wear the same suit, or a special version made specifically for their species
    
    
  • The quality of the suit would dictate:
    
    
    
    • how much of a bonus to the "to-hit" modifier the suit would provide while using /combatConceal
      
    • the chance of success while using /hide
    
    
  • The outfit would need to be equiped to have activate the effect
    
  • A camoflauge kit would still be required to initiate the camoflauge effect itself, the suit would only enhance the bonus
  
  
• Request for an Area Conceal Kit
  
  
  
  • This would be another craftable item that would take an existing camo kit as a component
    
  • The effect would be to conceal everyone within a certain radius, or everyone in a group
  
  
• Request that the HAM icon for /conceal be changed to something other than the /maskscent icon
  
• Request when another player concealed by the Ranger is revealed, that a System Message is sent to the applier stating such
  
• Request for the ability to /conceal self without a camo kit once a Player achieves Master
  
• Request for /conceal to work against Faction Turrets
  
• Request for invisibility against other players with the ability to move
  
  
  
  • A command named /sneak would hide the player's position on radar and the main window while the command is in effect
    
  • A player could only sneak while prone or crawling. They would be instantly revealed if the player stood.
    
  • If the player engages in combat, the concealment would break and the player would be revealed.
    
  • When the player is moving via crawling, the chance of detection would increase.
    
  • The closer an opponent is to the sneaking player, the greater chance of detection.
    
  • The faster an opponent is traveling, the lower the chance of detection.

/rescue

• There are concerns it does not work often enough to be useful. Perhaps a better chance of success, or lower mind drain so it can be tried more often.
  
• Request for a system message to be displayed to the target of /rescue, so they know when to /peace and run away from their aggressors

/examine

• Request to display the bone resource
  
• Request to display the Social Assistiveness of a creature
  
• Request for information regarding what exactly Ferocity actually represents
  
• Request to list the Health/Action/Mind values (we can see the values via the Target Window, so why not list them)
  
• Request to see the Armor Piercing level of a creatures weapon, if any is available
  
• Request to see the type of creature living in a lair upon examining the lair itself
  
• Request to display the speed of a creature (so we can know whether we can outrun it using burstrun)
  
• Request for a Save button that saves the text contents of the examine window to a file on the users machine

/forage

• Request that the number of locatable herbs be increased, and more powerful herb be limited to certain levels of the harvesting skill.
  
• Request for increased potency in foraged buff herbs
  
  
  
  • Many Rangers have requested herbs that heal damage
    
  • Items with greater HAM buffing would have a healing effect when used
    
  • Request for an increased stack size for foraged items
    
    
    
    • With the randomness involved in foraging, an increase in stack size as skill increases would be a benefit
  
  
• Request for herbal medicines
  
  
  
  • That cure Bleed, Dizzy, Blind, Stun effects
    
  • That would reduce the duration or damage incurred by Poison / Disease effects
    
  • These herbs would be single use / non-stackable items, to ensure that a Doctors multi-use kits would still have a use

Terrain Negotiation

• Apparently we only receive +95 of the skill at the master level. Could we get the remaining +5 at Master?
  
• Request for an improved normal swimming speed associated with Terrain Negotiation
  
  
  
  • Burst Run should continue upon entering water, and should produce a faster swimming rate
  
  
• Request for the skill to have some effect on Mounts
  
  
  
  • Perhaps a faster /gallop or a longer duration, or a shorter downtime between gallops
  
  
• Request for Group Terrain Negotiation, similiar to the Squad Leader
  
• Request for an improved normal run speed be associated with Terrain Negotiation
  
• Request for a skill modifier to reduce the downtime between burst runs
  
• Request for Skis for use on those snowy mountain slopes, perhaps even snow shoes for quicker navigation over snow.

Misc.

• Request to be able to /milk female herbivores to receive milk
  
• Hunting Missions
  
  
  
  • Many Rangers do not consider the payout for Hunting missions to be worth the effort, and have suggested possible changes
    
  • The terminal would dole out a Explore style mission for a rare type of creatures
    
  • The system would set up a number of spawn points where these creatures would appear, but not inform the player as to the exact location
    
  • The mission would give a general search area for the player to search
    
  • If a player passes near one of these points, the target creature would be spawned
    
  • A player would only need to kill one of these creatures to succeed in the mission
  
  
• Custom Bestiary Information
  
  
  
  • Request to add custom notes that could be assigned to a particular creature
    
  • The database could be stored on the client side to reduce server congestion
    
  • This registry could also contain statistics on the creatures (such as the number killed)
    
  • Request to be able to trade this text information between players in game
  
  
• Request for server wide bulletin board system
  
  
  
  • The Message board could be used for sharing resource quality information or simply to chat about the weather
  
  
• Pack Animals
  
  
  
  • Many Rangers have requested more storage room. This suggestion appears to be the most intriguing.
    
  • The creatures could work like Storage Droids, with an inventory for storing stuff
    
  • A Creature Handler would need to train the specified creature to enable the ability
    
  • Request for a tailor made saddle bag
    
    
    
    • Such a bag would be used on a creature trained as a pack animal to produce the storage capacity
      
    • The saddle bag would be restricted to carrying only resource containers
  
  
• Request to have a bonus to the Creature Handler Level over the +10 available for non-CH characters.
  
  
  
  • +1 CL level at Novice, +1 for each level of Tracking, +1 at Master, for a total of +15 CL without any CH skills
  
  
• Request for a /coax command to force the next wave of a lair to spawn quicker.
  
• Droid Helper Modules
  
  
  
  • There is some interest in the community for droid modules that can augment our various skills
    
  • Such a Ranger Module would perhaps:
    
    
    
    • Increase the range of /areatrack
      
    • Allow us to scan creatures for resource quality
      
    • Store a small database of resources qualities that have been previously harvested for quick reference
      
    • Allow tracking within structures
      
    • Allow a player to see the Faction, Guild, Title of players found via /areatrack
  
  
• Request for binoculars.
  
  
  
  • Having the item equiped in the necklace slot would increase the range of /areatrack
    
  • The item itself would be created by Artisans
  
  
• Environmental Effects
  
  
  
  • Effects such as Sandstorms and Rain storms should have some impact on the character
    
  • Suggestions include:
    
    
    
    • Damaging any players who are not wearing certain protective clothes
      
    • Damaging the clothes of players who are wearing certain protective clothes
      
    • Players within camps would be protected from these effects
      
    • Players reduced to walking speed while in the midst of a storm
      
    • Accuracy should be reduced during bad weather
    
    
  • Request that certain regions be marked as "Dangerous". These locations would incur damage during storm conditions for unprotected players.
  
  
• Indigenious Peoples Affinity
  
  
  
  • As Rangers are less invansive in the environment during their travels, the local native population are more amiable to a Ranger's presence
    
  • Minor faction for the natives of a planet slowly increase while a Ranger is travelling on the planet
    
  • While the Ranger is not on the planet, minor faction would slowly decrease back to zero

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I still love all these ideas, and would love to see as many of them implemented as well as possible, and preferably, sometime soon... Ill stick with the ranger as long as I play the game, at least on one character, but I still cant help but feel our character isnt getting the attention it deserves, especially considering the ammount of work and dedication the ranger community, and especially our correspondent, has put into preparing the State of the Profession, and I hope the Devs take notice of the great ideas to truly flesh out the ranger profession.

Awesomelist there NRass,I noticed you worked in everything from the Outdoorsman proposal(and then some more recently suggested items) into the new State of the Profession wishlist, but Id be happy if even the bugs listed were fixed in a timely manner.

Any results onyour experiment on test center about whether if the amount of yielded milk after milking is associated with the creature harvesting MOD or Foraging MOD? I know the devs may have skipped this detail, but its just good to know if somebody already tested so we know for sure if the devs overlooked the fact that rangers should be able to get more milk than scouts, so we can " vigilantly and promptly" point to them this omission before the patch goes live .....

Eter Solwalker

Naritus Master Ranger/Master Carbineer

Eter Solwalker
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Looks good NRass, as usual. Ugh...now to go finish scout, for hte third time since beta

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In the current implementation, neither the harvesting or foraging skill have any impact on the amount of milk that procured from a creature.

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This looks great NRaas. Thanks for your hard work. I guess the Outdoorsman Proposal derailed your plan to clean up and shorten the SotP, since it seems to be about twice as long now as it used to be

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Dyne Cloudskimmer
Antarian Ranger, Ahazi

Slightly.

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Tackleberry
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Yes.

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