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valubo

Sun May 02, 2004 8:14 pm

I just got Novice Ranger, so I tried out /areatrack. Most of the time it didn't work, but occasionally, I would get a little menu like this:
a picket (baby)
a picket
a quenker

So then I clicked on picket baby and hit the "okay" button and ...... NOTHING HAPPENED. Is something supposed to happen? How is it supposed to work?

arriviste

Sun May 02, 2004 8:28 pm

#2

Hiya,

I know the interface appears as if one should click the results -- but nothing is meant to happen then. As you level, you get more information when tracking.

At Novice Ranger /areatrack only lets you know what critters are around. Field Bioscience I will tell you which direction to seek the animals. FB II lets you track non-player characters, FB III = distance and direction for NPC's and animals, FB IV is the ability to track players.

Tracking works in a 500 meter radius.

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Nemo0

Sun May 02, 2004 8:34 pm

#3

/areatrack tells you what is within 500m of your position. At Novice Ranger, you just get the option to search for creatures and it only tells you what creatures are nearby. At Tracking 1, you also get an indication of which direction the creature is in (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW). Tracking 2 gives you the ability to search for NPCs as well. Tracking 3 gives you distance information (that picket is 350m NE). Tracking 4 lets you track other players. The Okay button does nothing. And you can only track things that have already spawned on the server (so you might find that nothing shows up on tracking only to walk 20m and have a lair appear in your face). Hope that helps.

Lythender Nirou
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman

Eclipse Server

Lythender Nirou
Crazy Bothan

Calculus_Entropy

Sun May 02, 2004 10:00 pm

#4

Long story short, you won't (ever) get a waypoint from /aretrack. The best you get is the list the other folks pointed out.

Calculus Entropy
Ranger Blue Glowie Emeritus
Garindan used /areatrack to find Han.

Serraphin

Sun May 02, 2004 10:36 pm

#5

And only if the creature has spawned. Its realatively useless now if you have a Speeder. Happy Hunting

JBMat

Mon May 03, 2004 4:02 am

#6

Wrong again Serraphin.

Speed through an area and you create spawn in your wake. I often make a series of circles then /ar to see what I stirred up, see if there is anything worth harvesting as it were.

Works really well, as I can read a compass and guesstimate distance. Helps when attempting to find certain meats/hides I can't get missions for.

JB

EbeLightcloud

Mon May 03, 2004 8:45 am

#7

All of the above, one other thing when you get the ability to track players, you only list players that are outside, within a 500m radius

Ebe

Master Ranger...er...Spy
Master Riflewoman...er...Spy

AgonThalia

Mon May 03, 2004 9:07 am

#8

Right.

If you do the math, the area that you actually scan is 2,500,000 square meters. (using A=pi*r^2). Thats a lot of ground to search. I do the speed through and create spawn trick too. Its even better if you tell your hunt-mates to split up and run around for a bit, then shout out when you found what you are looking for.

more people, covering more area=more spawns.

Draknev
The Last Ranger Correspondent
Subterfuge and Sabotage, Concealment and Camouflage:
Colonel: Rebel Alliance

Mac_Leod

Mon May 03, 2004 12:18 pm

#9

Serraphin wrote:
And only if the creature has spawned. Its realatively useless now if you have a Speeder. Happy Hunting

I wouldn't say that. There have been times when I've been flying along on my speeder and I'll stop to do an /ar, and it lets me know about creatures that I'm hunting that are 400 m away at a 90 degree angle. Now, would I have found those creatures if I had continued on my speeder and hadn't used areatrack? I doubt it.

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