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Thread: Successful Ranger Groups
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Squidwalker
Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:23 pm
#1
So I just made a reply recently in the Albetross post. Made me think maybe I could post about my great success as a ranger.
So as some of you know, I'm a hunt master for the Rangers of Bria (RoB). This group is run by a small group of people, usually Rangers, to keep a contact list of hunters and crafters. We were known for being able to get large amounts of the hot resource spawns, and keeping our prices fair. In our day, we could get regularly 10-20 hunters for a hunt, and would run 3-4 of them a week. The idea would be, we all group up, take missions for the creature giving the resource wanted, and everyone harvests.
What I believe made us so successful as a hunting group was that all our hunters were trained to hunt in a gorup by RANGERS. We had come up with some very efficient hunting methods that kept things fun and successful. We always got new hunters exclaiming that we were much more efficient and fun then pick up groups. We rarely had people die, and everyone made good money harvesting. And most of the time, we wouldn't use buffs. Like I said, our hunters were trained by Rangers. 
Once in a while we would do a "for fun" hunt, to get away from the same old hunts. For example RoB has hunted krayts, Kimos, Squill cave, Woolmander, Geonosian, Albetross and even the Mighty Gorax during the Aniversary Gorax hunts. RoB was always successful it what it went after. There were many times that a small group of us would just wander about and attack things that looked challenging, like Tusken Executioners, Superbattle droids, Nigh Sisters of all kinds, you name it. If the group was of RoB hunters, we were successful in taking down what we went after. If something didn't die, it's because we couldn't track one down.
The point of this, is to point out that good tactics, group management, and people that listen to the group leaders, can lead to some great fun and content of your own. As I said, we were not only successful, but always had fun. And a large majority of the hunters were not FOTM templates, especially the onese with Ranger. 
We would have all kinds of mixes of professions, as long as they had some scout, that was the requirment. We kept our doctors alive, we let the melee tanks hit first before range fired, we designated rolls and rules. So go out, get some people together, teach them how to hunt Ranger style, and wander the galaxy unscaithed.
We would have all kinds of mixes of professions, as long as they had some scout, that was the requirment. We kept our doctors alive, we let the melee tanks hit first before range fired, we designated rolls and rules. So go out, get some people together, teach them how to hunt Ranger style, and wander the galaxy unscaithed. RoB will live on in my heart for ever as the most fun I had SWG, and in any MMO to date. It's not a profession, it's a lifestyle.
Ranger_Nizzle
Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:17 pm
#2
I led my fair share of large hunts from back in the day. anyone remember big ol' Lokian "shoot everything you see while on the way to missions" hunting tours? ahh
Hakai
Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:26 pm
#3
I once had this company....called Hakai's Ranger Outing Tours.
The main idea was that i would take out trips of kiddies (new players or players from other servers) to go and level up for the price of their harvesting for AP for training them (or i would also charge others to go with us if they wanted AP for training)
It was going well until that one fateful day when and entire party was eaten alive.........Never seemed to live that down........
Now i'm a "down on his luck" ranger who comes in to town to buy a case of brandy to mellow out my sorrows.
*sniffle*
*glug glug glug*
Message Edited by Hakai on 10-15-2004 02:27 AM
Kiros42
Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:05 am
#4
Having toyed with several professions, I've found Ranger to be the most enjoyable. I travel with real life friends in game and everyone has the Hunting line to one extent or another. We have a lot of fun finding stuff, killing, and providing resources to our doctor at a very inexpensive rate for her. Free. Of course, we also annihilate any squads of Imperials along the way. Damn stormtroopers roaming the wilds of Endor...
-Kiros
BlakkStar
Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:45 am
#5
Hakai wrote:
I once had this company....called Hakai's Ranger Outing Tours.
The main idea was that i would take out trips of kiddies (new players or players from other servers) to go and level up for the price of their harvesting for AP for training them (or i would also charge others to go with us if they wanted AP for training)
It was going well until that one fateful day when and entire party was eaten alive.........Never seemed to live that down........
Now i'm a "down on his luck" ranger who comes in to town to buy a case of brandy to mellow out my sorrows.
*sniffle*
*glug glug glug*
Message Edited by Hakai on 10-15-2004 02:27 AM
I use to do the same thing. Free xp, heals and garauntee to stay alive if u listened to me. It was a great way to meet new people and get plenty of AP and harvest. I paid them 1 cpu for their yield. Mission money and credits from harvest was a pretty attractive deal back then. Now a starting noob just gets a buff, some armor and food and hunts alone. 
Fun game.
Samtha
Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:30 am
#6
BlakkStar wrote:
Now a starting noob just gets a buff, some armor and food and hunts alone.
This, in my opinion, is what caused RoB the most trouble.. too many of our regular hunters got caught up in the buff and solo mentality and had reached their mastery of an elite profession... group hunts of up and coming hunters on naboo is completely different than group hunts on naboo of combat elites trying to kill kaadu.. the fun leeches out.. so you have to hunt bigger and bigger stuff to keep people interested..
Teranus is right.. what we hunted... died... nothing in the game could withstand a full RoB hunt... There are many good memories there, and there is nothing more enjoyable (and distressing at the time) to see a lone pistoleer bothan going "We can take it" and running alone out after an Albatross... -after- our doc had gone home for the day.. and we were down to 5 hunters in the group...
But... we killed that albatross.. and many others..
Hunting rules were simple... dont shoot the lair unless told to, let the tank tap the lair, keep the doc alive, watch for Agro and help out others and go from lair to lair efficiently without sidetracking on other stuff...
We made decent money and had lots of fun... I learned my hunting skills from RoB huntmasters... so /Salute Teranus, /Salute Oxran, /Salute DustyBottoms, /Salute Treg
Squidwalker
Fri Oct 15, 2004 2:14 pm
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Samtha: There are many good memories there, and there is nothing more enjoyable (and distressing at the time) to see a lone pistoleer bothan going "We can take it" and running alone out after an Albatross... -after- our doc had gone home for the day.. and we were down to 5 hunters in the group...:
What? Phenix would be proud I'm sure. 
RoB was a lot of fun and I met many good friends that way. Some I'm still in touch with and plan to continue my online gaming experience with. Ranger truely is the most fun profession, if the player has the right mind set. You really can make your content, and if you RP it, others enjoy it as well.
RoB was a lot of fun and I met many good friends that way. Some I'm still in touch with and plan to continue my online gaming experience with. Ranger truely is the most fun profession, if the player has the right mind set. You really can make your content, and if you RP it, others enjoy it as well. Keep it up Rangers. /salute you.
Chra
Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:19 pm
#8
Awe ...you guys make me wish I had spent more time with groups. I have been doing the solo thing so long I am talking to Ewoks. And my Spat is a terrible conversationalist.
I have no friends, I guess I will eat some worms ... wait ... I need the bait. Ah well.
BlakkStar
Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:56 pm
#9
Chra wrote:
Awe ...you guys make me wish I had spent more time with groups. I have been doing the solo thing so long I am talking to Ewoks. And my Spat is a terrible conversationalist.
I have no friends, I guess I will eat some worms ... wait ... I need the bait. Ah well.
You sound like me. I became too much of a soloist be cause i wanted to avoid joining any guilds. Then the friends I played with slowly but surely quit the game. When I finally did want to join a guild (and did join one) it was a new one that quickly dissipitated in less than 3 weeks. By then I was down to playing the game very sparsely let alone the fact that i played between different servers whenever I got an itch. I realized at that point it wouldn't be fair to join a guild when I was rarely around...
Squidwalker
Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:38 pm
#10
Ah an aspect about our hunting groups, is that they were purely voluntary. We were not a guild, and we didn't care what faction you were. Which made us have a rule, "do not come overt or you do not get grouped" We just kept a list of people that stated they were interested in joining our hunts. When we had orders for a resource we planned hunts and sent out emails. "we are hunting X for YY cpu. Meet us at A (city/outpost) at B time to join a hunt for this." That is a basic example of a hunter request email. Who ever showed joined the hunt, and if they didn't they didn't. No biggy. No ties, no requirments other then at least novice scout, and follow the rules. If someone started breaking a rule, they usually got a warning or two. Then they got kicked out of the group and never invited again. We only had to do this once.
Almagill
Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:26 pm
#11
I miss group hunts. I think that's why I like the GRMs so much.
It's really good to be in a mixed abilities group, hearing the newer players squawk at seeing something huge, like a rancor, taken down for th eforst time, or hearing someone go "OMG! I've just filled another box for XP... Do I need to go back to town to train??" Happy, innocent days...
Now? If am in a group it'll be a bunch of soloists and I've only joined to make the numbers up. I'm not elite weaps, so not really interested in the huge missions. TBH, for the most part I'll turn down group invites these days, and to the Sarlacc Pit with anyone that then whines "yo mofo, why you turn the invite down, we need people in the group to get uber missions" /ignore Muppet
Taking a group of folk out who know the 'rule', who aren't bothered about grabbing loot, who will harvest what they are told AND don't suddenly fly off after some faction flavoured NPC. Now, that was fun. Sure, soemtimes they get a little bashed up, but thats why our doc came along, he got medic XP, we got to stay away from the clone bay. Oh yeah, and he'd get shedloads of organics at the end of the evening, very often for 'free' (Less cost of buffs, rez packs, wear and tear on his nerves...)
/sigh
Aye, happy days right enough. I'd rather go shoot teddy bears on Endor for fun now
It's really good to be in a mixed abilities group, hearing the newer players squawk at seeing something huge, like a rancor, taken down for th eforst time, or hearing someone go "OMG! I've just filled another box for XP... Do I need to go back to town to train??" Happy, innocent days...
Now? If am in a group it'll be a bunch of soloists and I've only joined to make the numbers up. I'm not elite weaps, so not really interested in the huge missions. TBH, for the most part I'll turn down group invites these days, and to the Sarlacc Pit with anyone that then whines "yo mofo, why you turn the invite down, we need people in the group to get uber missions" /ignore Muppet
Taking a group of folk out who know the 'rule', who aren't bothered about grabbing loot, who will harvest what they are told AND don't suddenly fly off after some faction flavoured NPC. Now, that was fun. Sure, soemtimes they get a little bashed up, but thats why our doc came along, he got medic XP, we got to stay away from the clone bay. Oh yeah, and he'd get shedloads of organics at the end of the evening, very often for 'free' (Less cost of buffs, rez packs, wear and tear on his nerves...)
/sigh
Aye, happy days right enough. I'd rather go shoot teddy bears on Endor for fun now
thpokc
Mon Oct 18, 2004 7:51 pm
#12
Ah yes, I love the group hunt myself. Just a bunch of rangers out killing and harvesting as a team. No buffs, armour, etc. Just our skills and the joy of the kill. At the end of the hunt looking at thousands of units of meat or whatever. The xp piling up for those that need it. That is why I have been ranger from the very beginning and will stay so.
Hakai
Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:14 pm
#13
but you have to admit. nothing represented "the group hunt (tm)" like pre vehicle and pre mission nerf Endor.
Something about a group of 10 characters running around in the wilderness setting up watches on the edges of the camps to repel aggros just seemed so fun.....
Message Edited by Hakai on 10-20-2004 04:15 AM
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