Ranger Archive

I thought the High Tech Field Base, aka the Ubercamp, was supposed to be a semi permanent base. I thought I read that I could leave, go fight, and come back and it would still be there. Didn't work for me the other day, and I was not a happy camper (ohhh, that pun was bad) I was gone all of 3 minutes (maybe) and thebase disbanded.

Was this a bug, if so...has it been fixed, or was I in error.

JB

who still gets oohs and ahhs when he pulls this thing outta his pocket

The only structure I know about that will not auto-disband during combat will be the hunting blinds.....which are still in testing/development. I know the HTFBs are great....but not that great. I get all kids of "Ooohs" and "Ahhhs" when I toss one up for the hunting party I'm in, but if a Argo gets too close, I can't join in on the attack, or I will get the "You camp has been abandoned" for whatever reason.

There are more camps on the way, if you read the DEVS posts on these they say these camps were never meant to stay up they just last longer.

There is also going to be a forward command structure Rangers can build when the next upgrade comes through - which can only be built when you are covert.

There was a very long very detailed post on the DEV tracker forums regrarding all the Ranger class changes due out. The recent ones are only the tip of the iceberg.

Ooops - Command structures will be built if your Overt - sry for the typo

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Embersyc wrote:
Well that pretty much means my entire climb up the frontiering tree has been pointless.

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Oh now come on! You are trying to tell us the only reason you even went up that line was for the supposed semi-permanent HTFB? The news of the hunting blinds isn't enough for you to keep your skills? The news of the up-coming Command HQs for overt rangers isn't enough for you to keep your skills?

What? There used to be all sorts of posts on here saying the HiTech Field Base was semi-permanent, that at least you could leave and hunt and come back. Its not much of a field base if it disapears after 3 minutes.

It was a bug...specifically the HTFB became frozen in time after 5 minutes. It would heal once, then stop healing wounds anymore. The offshoot of this frozen in time bug is the camp itself would stay permenantly in place until you logged out or manually disbanded it. When they fixed the heal timer, the "perma-status" of the HTFB went with it.

Well that pretty much means my entire climb up the frontiering tree has been pointless.

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Ailsa wrote:

Oh now come on! You are trying to tell us the only reason you even went up that line was for the supposed semi-permanent HTFB? The news of the hunting blinds isn't enough for you to keep your skills? The news of the up-coming Command HQs for overt rangers isn't enough for you to keep your skills?

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Yes that is the only reason I ever began the climb up Frontiering, or Ranger at all for that matter was because people said the High Tech Field Base was semi-perm. The hunting blinds and command HQs while they are intriging weren't even announced yet then. The news of them, well, right now I consider everything in SWG vaporware until it at least shows up on Test Center, I will believe in the new camps when somebody has seen them, I'd guess they are still 2+ months away, and 4+ months away from being bug-free. I am out of skill points right now, and frontiering is useless right now. So what if I get a couple of oohs and ahhs when I set up a camp. I wan't a camp that serves a function, not just as eye-candy. The thing is called a High Tech Field Base, how is it a Base if it disapears after 3 minutes? Come on.

I will probably stick it out with Frontiering, considering right now I am down to playing only about 10-15 hours a week, and don't feel like investing the time to learn a whole new skill, but honestly I am extremely disappointed to hear they are no longer semi-perm.