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Thread: Character fatigue, Camps and Rangers
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FuzzyDustBall
Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:41 am
#1
OK heres my idea to add some intresting new aspects to the game and giving rangers and camps a boost...
Have characters fatigue while in the wild say their regen bar (2nd bar I think) goes down by 50 every hour they are not in a city/camp. Once a player hits a city/camp their bar goes back to normal it could take longer in lesser level camps and cities. This makes the wild a much more imposing place to be for long periods of time without shelter.
Also I think camps need to stick around for a while longer while you are not in it. I like to set them up as Base stations in a hunting area and return to them when ever I am injured but most of the time they time out before I get 2 meters away from them.
Have characters fatigue while in the wild say their regen bar (2nd bar I think) goes down by 50 every hour they are not in a city/camp. Once a player hits a city/camp their bar goes back to normal it could take longer in lesser level camps and cities. This makes the wild a much more imposing place to be for long periods of time without shelter.
Also I think camps need to stick around for a while longer while you are not in it. I like to set them up as Base stations in a hunting area and return to them when ever I am injured but most of the time they time out before I get 2 meters away from them.
DaveG
Fri Aug 13, 2004 8:49 am
#2
I don't agree with the character fatigue. Or at least I don't agree with it applying to rangers as much as anyone else. If anything, rangers should have resistence to this, because in effect out in the wild is out natural environment.
I agree with field bases being a little more durable. Especially since their promised ability to keep creatures out doesn't work. So in effect if a creature stalks and attacks you inside your camp, that creature has effectively destoryed your camp because you have to fight it, which disbands your camp! Grrrr. If the camps don't keep everything out, then at least let us defend ourselves without loosing said camp! (I know you were takling about just stepping outside of the camp for longer but I see this as two parts of the same issue).
ShyGirl
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:16 am
#3
DaveG wrote:
I So in effect if a creature stalks and attacks you inside your camp, that creature has effectively destoryed your camp because you have to fight it, which disbands your camp!
Thanks for bringing this up.... Wookiee Ranger 
A few weeks ago we were prepating for the Genosian Lab. I get there first so I set up camp, awaiting the team'sarrival.
So, here comes one of my team members in her swoop and some critters had aggr'd her. They follow her in to the camp where of we both engage them. After the fight, I said to my friend that I had to create a new camp, and she kept asking me what was wrong with the one that was already up?
I explained to her that I had engaged in combat and the camp should become "invalidated" or "passive"... As I was explaining she stored her Vehicle and summoned her driod. In turn I summoned my droid and it materialized immediately.
I checked the camp status and everything was fine.... I was at awe ! 
(Well, I was more confused than amazed.)
(Well, I was more confused than amazed.)So, I'm asking... Is there a thread that lists the states in whicha camp will and can be prematurely disbanded?
DaveG
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:27 am
#4
In my experience, it seems the higher the camp, the more robust it may be to 'minor skirmishes', even then it's inconsistent, so I think it's a random/roll based thing.
ShyGirl
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:31 am
#5
DaveG wrote:
In my experience, it seems the higher the camp, the more robust it may be to 'minor skirmishes', even then it's inconsistent, so I think it's a random/roll based thing.
Thanks DaveG,
I think this is worth while some testing 
I'll come back with an answer, during or after this wekend.
DaveG
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:37 am
#6
My interim solution is to pull out "KillBot" and put him on guard duty, or if I'm going afk for a long time, pull my pet Kaadu, which doesn't require any batteries 
(oh, and also stand, not sit, holding my DXR-6B!).
(oh, and also stand, not sit, holding my DXR-6B!).
ShyGirl
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:44 am
#7
DaveG wrote:
My interim solution is to pull out "KillBot" and put him on guard duty, or if I'm going afk for a long time, pull my pet Kaadu, which doesn't require any batteries
And now that you mention "KillBot's"..... When I was grinding Frontiering IV I sent out my (ungrouped)droid to kill aggro spawns nearby (I was bored having dialogues with the driod, I never received meaningful feed back from it).
Anyway some say, camps should be "disbanded" during such circumstanses. Mine held
So many mysteries.... I adore our profession !!!
Phenix1050
Fri Aug 13, 2004 9:23 pm
#9
Generally, the camp doesn't disband immediately. As a Rifleman on TC, I usually got off about 3-4 attacks before it went"abandoned". I believe it's time based. If you kill the aggro critters within X seconds, it doesn't disband. There is also a counting timer...So if you kill one creature in one shot, then attack another, the time "stacks" and the camp will eventually disband. If you wait about 30 seconds, the time stops stacking. So you can attack a creature, defeat it within X seconds, go back to the camp, wait 30 seconds, go attack the next creature and repeat.
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