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I'm missing something ... I used to find Kimos on Lok on a regular basis. However, I went out 2 nights in a row and roamed half way across the planet. Not only did Kimos not spawn, no othercreature save some pirates here and there spawned.

Where are you guys finding them now? I dont' expect you to give up your exact honey holes, just need some general direction--for instance, pre-nerf, you could go 6K m west of either outpost on Dathomir for Graul Mauler babies. I still want to track them, but I hate spending 8 to 10 hours wandering around looking for something over a 2 day period with nothing to show for my efforts. Did they nerf the Kimo? If so why???

I had a similar experience the weekbefore last on Dantooine. The only way I could find any animal was to take missions--no random spawns! I literally ran, stopping only to track every 300 m, from 6PM EDT to 12AM EDT - I saw one lair!

Are you guys having this same problem? I always liked /areatrack, but it gets old receiving the message that no tracks appear in this area. It's hard to believe that not a single creature has been to an area (15K m wide!!!)

Thanks!

Asur Skywaver - AHAZI server
Master Ranger (feeling like my tracking skills have gone to hell in hand basket :-), Master Creature Handler, Master Scout, Novice Pistoleer

I found a whole herd about 3 nights ago on Lok about 2k South of Nym's Stronghold. There was some kind of little village in the mountains there and they were all around it.

"There was some kind of little village in the mountains there and they were all around it."

Aye, that appears to be a static spawn sitefor the little buggers.

Seems all planets are having the less random spawn bug, from my personal roamings. The player mounts patch was when this went into effect. It must be a bug from what i can see, because I also have roamed Dant for maulers and found very very sparse lairs, and been all over lok, and seen kimo's in the static spot only(the over run by kimo village)

I am on tarquinas and have had no problem finding kimos, you find them in the more southern parts of the map ( thats where I find mine) last night almost every time I tracked I had a kimo on the list.

The Kimo Town (due south of Nym's) and the Volcano area are the best places to find Kimos.

Thanks guys for sharing your information. I haven't tried the Kimo spawns lately as I was frustrated -- been hunting Krayts with groups for the past three days

Likewise, what are you guys charging for tracking services? I haven't done this a lot, but it seems like every time I go to the Krayt graveyard, someone (player city group or guild) is trying to hire me to track krayts.

One group offered me 25K per hourfor tracking them with a 5K bonus of each kill their group was able to harvest. Likewise, another group offered me 100K for 5 hours of work and even offered to harvest the resource of my choice from the krayt provided I let their player city mayor be the first to loot the corpse :-)

I think this may prove to be a good means of earning additional income for the ranger class. Likewise, I think these prices were a little high...maybe not.

I will highly recommend that if you are hired to help a group, you remove your Master Ranger title. Otherwise, you risk other players joining your hunts and following you around because of your title. I had one Master Commando (not part of the group) on my server follow myself and eight other players on a hunt. He was using 3 atsts to hunt Krayt and blasting them with some uber, likely exploited, flame thrower that was dropping Giant Canyon Krayts in less then 30 seconds--no joke. He was doing so much damage, that the group that hired me did not have permisson to loot the corpses.

Maybe we can come up with a fair price guide or tier plan we can charge as a server standard rate for tracking krayts and other highly sought after species. I'm not trying to corner any market here, just list ideas on how we might charge for this service.

I know I can typically earn around 35K every 2 hours (sometimes more) using my pets and hunting on Yavin 4, Endor, Dathomir, Dantooine, or Lok by myself.

Maybe we could create some type of scale that would read such as

1 hour of krayt tracking = 5K w/5K bonus for each krayt the group is able to down.

so if you tracked for 2 hours (10K) and dropped 4 krayts with your group (20K) the group would owe you 30k?
Maybe we could charge tracking hours paid in advanced and bonus credits paid at the end of the hunt?

Maybe this seems way to high, way too low. I haven't a clue, but I bet you guys do :-)

Obviously this scale could be adjusted for groups willing to share on loots or helping to harvest resources you may need for equipment factory runs. I now have over 23K of hides from this weekends hunts just from krayt not to mention another 6K in wooly hides, 4K in herbivore meat and 9K in bones.

It would be nice to create an email you send yourself for long term email storage outlining your pricing structure and hunt guidelines that you can forward very quicklyto interested hunting parties should they be interested in your services.

Let's discuss this.

Asur Skywaver - AHAZI server
Master Ranger, Master Creature Handler, Master Scout, Novice Pistoleer

Nice idea Asur...

What I have done is form an Expedition Company. Myself, a Master Doc, Master Dancer, Master Musician.

I track the creature of interest, then drop an AFB near by. The Doc and Entertainers do their buffing thing for the hunting group. The hunters head out and we wait in the camp (the Doc will go out if the party didnt bring their own medic). We are avaiable to heal wounds, or in the case of a DB, revive.

Cost? 500K base cost (this covers all buffs for the group as well as incidentals), +100k per hour for first 3 hours (sitting in camp can get tedious), 200k per hour after that.

found alot of kimo near volcanoe, and gurks all over the place

Now THAT's usin yer noggin, Phaedryn.

I'm pretty sure creatures are 'seasonal' - after the server resets cerain type of MoB will predominate and others will just not spawn at all. I've noticed this particularly with GSP's, one day I can't find a single one - the next loads of lairs with oodles of babies.

Whether it is deliberately programmed this way or just a 'feature' of the somewhat dodgey pseudo-random number generator I don't know.

As for hiring tracking services - I guess the way to price it is work out how much you can make in an hour missioning or hunting and base your prices around that. I can make 30-50K an hour solo (plus drops), so I guess I'd charge that for my services, although I've yet to find anyone prepared to pay that much.

I've also experienced people playing 'follow the ranger'.No doubt they were disappointed at spending half an hourwatching me empty my harvesters...........