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I just got Survival 3. I now need 20k more experience, and it takes so long...are there any macros I can use?

Not any macros that I know of for Survival XP, but there are ways to get through it fast. I went to Dathomir, got in big group, and started making all the camps. Mine were the highest quality of any of the people there, and as I was the only Ranger in the group, I was the only one who needed survival xp. Try to find a group where you are the only Ranger.

Also, while you are camping, be making the best camp you are able to craft, which at Survival 3 is the Field base kit. Just put them on practice mode if you don't want to clog up your inventory and pump them babies out. Also, you'll want to use your downtime the same way. Anytime you're sitting, waiting for a shuttle, be making field bases. If you get in a big group where you are making most if not all the camps and you have lots of people and big pets in there, you'll get to Survival 4 in no time. If you can, get some guild buddies or friends to spend a day with you on a planet camping. If you're getting around 120xp per camp made and 1100-1200 per camp used then you can get the xp fast.

Good luck and have fun!

Kildur - Master Ranger - Starsider

I also went to the higher level planets and grouped with about 7 other people. I made all the camps and I disbanded and created a new camp about every 5 - 7 minutes, getting full XP for each one.

If you try to solo-camp that much XP, you'll be in pain. Find a good sized hunting group and the XP will fly by.

Thanks

Guilds help a lot. First I grabbed TONS of resources from my guild so I didn't have to spend time hunting. Next, I set up my camp between my GH and the closest city and sent bulk tells, and mails, and guildchats to everyone asking them to stop by my camps to heal, or just run through on the way to town. Next I started crafting using 2 crafting tools. I found based on my clicking speed versus the production rate of the crafting tools I used that by the time I finshed preparing one camp, the other tool was finished producing it's camp. Actually ground through survival 4 in a few hours.

Just grind it. If you had enough hide, bone, and metal u could Survival IV and Frontiering IV in a day. That's what I'm doing.

I did the grind from Novice Ranger to Frontiering II in just about an hour. Then got the new camp kit. Unfortunately, I couldn't get hold of the bone and hide needed to make the grind to Frontiering IV, so a little over half of the Frontiering grind was done by actually making camps in groups.

But, last night, I finally stopped long enough to take a look at my inventory. At that time I had enough Hide and metal to make it all the way up to Frontiering IV, but not enough bone. Right now, I'm about 2K points away from finishing Frontiering III. I found enough bone last night (off the bazaar). So, using crafting macros I will get to Frontiering IV in about an hour tonight.

Like I said, it's all about materials. If I could have found enough bone, hide, and metal for sale (even at a fairly high price), I would have done the entire Frontiering grind from Novice to Frontiering IV in a couple of hours. But, I will have it tonight. I can't wait to whip out my first Advanced Field Base Kit

Anian

Get in a large group. Drop a camp every 5 minutes. Done in no time.

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The Almanac of American Politics, 2003.
The Prince, Nicollo Maciavelli.
The Scout forums.

That's one of your better bets.

It worked for Survey too.

B

Made a macro (well 10 of them) basically...

press f1
wait an hour
press shift f2


(shift f2 does)
press f2
wait an hour
press shift f3

just load the camps up in the top row of toolbar and the 10 macros in the lower bar. Start and go to bed.

Still takes a while to get the survival xp but at least it's unatended whiles

Macros are too slow.

Getwith friends, go hunting, kill big things, drop a camp, heal, craft next camp... with 8 people you max a camp in less than 6 minutes if you are all healing and crafting and someone is entertaining.

One trip to Dathomir, 8 of us (we were wimpier then) with pets, 16 missions, 12 camps --- 15k in survival and a load of hides and meat to sell.

Alternative, set up camp in a highly traveled area... have a bunch of stims, advertise free healing... works well too.

Just go for it - do other things in camp, and craft for practice

JB

Buy alot of metal, like around 10k worth. Craft ranger camp kits in practice mode, you'll get 300 to 400 exp per kit made, do this while sitting in a ranger camp that way you get all the xp from the camp time as well. I learned this trick when i was grinding survival IV. I got 20k survival exp in about 2 hours doing this.

The majority of my Survival XP has come from Fishing.

Macroing is slow but effective if you cant group for some reason. Grouping is the fastest way to get the XP, hands down! Fishing will add a 100 or so per catch while you are camping as well.

The High Tech Field Base absolutely rocks