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Apologies if this has been covered elsewhere, but I've just been doing a bit of thinking about how this Creature Level difference will affect the Ranger's main source of income - harvesting.

Admittedly, I haven't had much chance to level up the Scout side of things on TC-EP3, but I've noticed that when I harvest organics from a creature lower than myself, I only get 1 unit. And from higher (when they don't disappear before I've killed them ), I get more.

So am I right in presuming that the intent is to severely impair harvesting from creatures of a lower level to oneself?

If so, then this ruins the Ranger's ability to hunt to order. Often I've found myself constantly refreshing the terminals with my gun unequipped, in the hope of pulling a Tatooine Nuna mission, or a Talusian Rasp. Not for the XP or the glory of battle, but because the meat has been in high demand.

When our characters move to the single-level-covers-all solution, then wouldn't this be impossible, as there is no way to pull these low level creatures from the Mission Terminals? (I haven't tested this adequately as I only ever seem to be able to pull Delivery missions.)

And even if these low level mobs are found in the wild, will any of us with even the vaguest hint of a combat skill be able to pull more than 1 unit per creature?

I'm hoping these questions have been asked already, so feel free to berate me for not reading every post. (Just make it easy by including clickies! )

Message Edited by Daryl666 on 04-13-2005 07:42 PM

Just an OT note - on the mission terminal there are two tabs at the top. Delivery and Destroy. If you have the Delivery tab clicked by accident then you will only get Delivery missions. If you click on the Destroy tab you should get destroy missions. Appologies if you were already aware of this!

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KaiRaene wrote:
If this keeps going the way it has been then I think pretty soon that tat avian will be the only thing you will be able to harvest for money soon. If we can still do that after the CU.

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After I posted that, I actually started to think the same thing... /shudder

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Vorpaks wrote:
Just an OT note - on the mission terminal there are two tabs at the top. Delivery and Destroy. If you have the Delivery tab clicked by accident then you will only get Delivery missions. If you click on the Destroy tab you should get destroy missions. Appologies if you were already aware of this!

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Yeah! Only the Delivery tab was showing. Subsequently bugged.

It's mentioned in almost every thread lately, as it's our main concern. So, I won't include a specific sticky. Check out the HoC list of questions for tonight's dev chat and you'll see many rangers asking the same thing. Don't worry though, it's not you who we want to jump on or berate.

We're hoping to get the apparent lack of CL/HAM changed, but so far no answer from the devs.

Also... tat avian.. Are you insane?? Just kidding.. although, still curious. I've never seen a price high enough to harvest it... Actually, now that I think of it, I've never seen any crafter on Kauri bothering with asking anyone to hunt it.

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frightwig wrote:
Also... tat avian.. Are you insane?? Just kidding.. although, still curious. I've never seen a price high enough to harvest it... Actually, now that I think of it, I've never seen any crafter on Kauri bothering with asking anyone to hunt it.

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It was going for 250cpu on Chimaera once. /boggle

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Daryl666 wrote:

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frightwig wrote:
Also... tat avian.. Are you insane?? Just kidding.. although, still curious. I've never seen a price high enough to harvest it... Actually, now that I think of it, I've never seen any crafter on Kauri bothering with asking anyone to hunt it.

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It was going for 250cpu on Chimaera once. /boggle

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If this keeps going the way it has been then I think pretty soon that tat avian will be the only thing you will be able to harvest for money soon. If we can still do that after the CU.

I think we should change our Tracker title to Ratcatcher. Thats all I feel like with the upcoming CU. Anything over level 40 we should ignore.... /sigh