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is it normal as in should it happen? no .... does it happen frequently .. yes and it is a bummer

There's a "hole" in /areatrack around 100m. It's closer to 100m.. around 128.. but I've sometimes noticed it close to 200, as well. Never been able to pinpoint the exact range of the hole, but maybe this is what you were experiencing?

Message Edited by NlMH on 12-22-2004 02:36 PM

Yea, I ran into this the other day when tracking Gorax. A couple were maybe 100m away but nothing showed up in my tracking.

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frightwig wrote:
There's a "hole" in /areatrack around 100m. It's closer to 100m.. around 128.. but I've sometimes noticed it close to 200, as well. Never been able to pinpoint the exact range of the hole, but maybe this is what you were experiencing?

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Na, he's just talking about how most of the time it doesn't track what hasn't appeared already.

I don't believe in the "hole" theory, thats just the distance at which stuff will dissapear off radar after awile (and thus become untrackable again).

Here is whatI observe "most of the time"

Spawns that always occur in the exact same place will track.

Spawns that are already in the area will not track unless they are appeared to a player somewhere.

Spawns that spawn while you are in the area will track regardless of whether they are appeared.

Of course the other tracking bug is when those NPC's you are looking for for hours showup on track and then they are nowhere to be found and no longer trackable (and you know there is nobody else around for miles), which occurs considerably more than the chance of it actually being legit (despawn ... stuff that isnt on the 3rd or 4th spawn will sit there indefinitely).

As it is if you are looking for something in a remote playerless area using the tracking grid method instead of clearing spawns, you aren't much better off than someone who doesn't have tracking.

Message Edited by ForceFielding on 12-23-2004 07:15 AM