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Mynroe

Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:05 am

i was thinking (oh no!) and wouldn't it make sense that a ranger should be able to cover his or her tracks, so that they cannot be found by /area track?

sounds like a good idea to me! make it an ability gained with accompanying skill mods, and perhaps at the highest level a ranger can cover the tracks of his/her party. i think this skill should be in the wayfaring line, as opposed to the tracking line, since it deals with travel and concealment.

obviously, the only use of this would be pvp, and would only matter in a case where you were being tracked by another ranger. what really gave me this idea was the fact that tons of bounty hunters are picking up the tracking line so they can track people in pvp, and well, there's a heckovalot of bh's, and i think this would not only be a good check against that, but it would also give real rangers a usefulness in pvp

so, whaddya think?

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NRaas

Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:26 am

#2

"wouldn't it make sense that a ranger should be able to cover his or her tracks, so that they cannot be found by /area track?"

This idea has been suggested before.

But a skill mod solely for one purpose (evading /areatrack) doesn't strike me as very efficient.

It has also been suggested the skill could also be used to evade stalking creatures... But that functionalityis already handled by /maskscent and /conceal.

Anyone see another use for this new skill, in addition to evading /areatrack?

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Black-Ice-Sinaju

Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:38 am

#3

AS long as the /conceal can take us out of the /areatrack thingie it should be cool.

Black-Ice Sinaju Master-of-All-Trades Jack-of-None "I would rather die trying, than be afraid too."

NRaas

Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:41 am

#4

"AS long as the /conceal can take us out of the /areatrack"

Hey... That's a cool idea.

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Fafnir76

Mon Oct 06, 2003 11:21 pm

#5

Black-Ice-Sinaju wrote:
AS long as the /conceal can take us out of the /areatrack thingie it should be cool.

Should also remove us from the radar, until they target us. And perhaps they can make new markers, so we can see the diff between npcs and creatures on the radar.

Culhwch Conchobar newbie Scout, wannabe Ranger

K3MIAN666

Tue Oct 07, 2003 3:03 am

#6

Heres a better idea, Rangers can cover up their tracks from Stalking Creatures so they dont sit there and follow you forever lol

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Deadtech

Sun Jul 04, 2004 4:55 pm

#7

Well this has probably been thought of before but this is how I envision tracking working.You click on areatrack and a list of for creature's pops up. You then choose which creature you would like to track. For 30 min. every time you get within 400m you get a system message telling you which direction to go plus an onscreen arrow if there are more than 1 of them. 30 min goes by and if you haven't found the creature you're looking for then you start over and reset it. For tracking players you type in their name and same as above (so long as they are not LD) you get a syatem message telling you which direction they are in and an onscreen arrow. Arrow disappears when you get 64m away from them. For npc's I'm not sure how this would work being you most likely don't now their name and if it worked like creatures it would list every npc's on the planet (way too many). The only way I see the npc aspect working is ifIt listed every faction based npc on the planet ie. Black Sun, Valarian, Garyn,Meatlump...... you get the idea. Thenyou get the system message when you get 400 m away. What do you think of this idea?

Svengali666

Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:00 pm

#8

Sounds pretty good, but I think 30 minutes sounds a bit excessive. Maybe 5 minutes.

Also I wouldnt want to take away the option to areatrack and see whats in the area. Sometimes I like to combine /who and areatrack to make sure there are no overt enemies nearby.

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brandedglacier

Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:55 pm

#9

It's been said. =/ We're rangers, *cough*master*cough* wilderness men. We don't need waypoints. We can handle getting a direction, estimated distance, and walking that far using our compass. At least I can, and JB's made this very same point before, so I know I'm not the only one. Being able to spawn a lair is a much better use for track.

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Svengali666

Sun Jul 04, 2004 5:59 pm

#10

"...Being able to spawn a lair is a much better use for track."

Definetly.

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