Ranger Archive

Idea for a ranger database:

Rangers should have the ability to "remember" creature attributes once they have been examined - this would be similar to a ranger only holocron (Ctrl+H - not the pointless jedi things)

Rangers are a valuable profession, they should have something to show for their animal and tracking expertise without: how many Worrts have you examined/harvested, but can you remember if they give wild or carnivore meat?

Meant to say:

... animal and tracking expertise without having to resort to looking on the interenet for a bestiary database...

This is one of those good ideas that has been bounced around before, one of the ideas was to create another tab (next to the POI, Waypoints) in the datapad with info on each type of critter you have killed. Since you were a ranger.

another idea that has been tossed around is rather than keep all critter's info,
just 100 that you select, your most favorite hunts etc.

Now this is a really nice idea that would make Rangers wanted. Only skill I'm asked to do is Area Track (usually Krayt hunts) but even then it's not necessary with a couple people zooming around on bikes :-(

But if we knew the creatures and current stats we'd be love by many. People would be asking usfor "what the best doc meat" and "who has the strongest bones of armor", etc. And allow these stats to be updated during stat shifts. This would also make us better hunters and find the right creatures quicker and not have to search the galaxy (or the internet and then too hope it's updated and I didn't jump two planets to find out the creature resource shifted last night and I wasted 3K getting here). If not automatically updated maybe then flagged as changed but we don't know the new stat until we kill another one?

Sounds like a skill that people may actually want Rangers for. Right now we don't have a single skill people seek out.

- Crile
- Master Ranger
- Lowca

I really like this idea... should be added to the wishlist.

"should be added to the wishlist."

I believe the Bestiary request in the SotP already covers this idea.

I had thought it would be cool if this type of thing was a droid module designed only for rangers to use. the droid would record your battle logging which attacks worked best, which weapon did the most dammage etc. It would also log how many of which types of resources were harvested and keep the stats of the creature for future refrence. This way we could consult the droid next time we encounter that creature and it would recommend the best weapons to use etc.

It may also be cool if rangers could sell this information to other players. information could be sold per creature, or the whole lot. So rangers with a complete list of all creatures would be of high value and with the ever changing nature of the game, this information may one day become obsolete keeping the demand for this information fresh.

Nraas:

Here is an idea that might even pass the "hotfix" test...

Put a button on the window of a critter that will save to text. I would also like to see such a button for resources so we could construct a database for the harvested resources too. I bet miners would love this.

Too often I spend an hour at least entering data into swgcraft.com and using the interface ingame. It would be far easier ot have a way of client-side storage that we can use. Perhaps in the future when they have time they can do something fancy with it. At any rate, a client side storage ot the data would be most helpfull. I do this with mail already

"Here is an idea that might even pass the "hotfix" test"

I doubt that very much, as it is not a severe impediment and can be worked around.

Anywho... I like the idea of a save button for the /examine window, you should also suggest the idea to KStarfire.

Now this is a good idea......I like it.