Ranger Archive

Holo: The new traps and wayfaring changes are very close to being ready to go, with the tracking and camps to follow some time after.

The new traps will add quite a bit to our trapping line and may make it worth while. how close to being ready to go are they now more than a month later?

Holo: Rangers will now get a similar ability called /conceal. A Ranger's conceal ability works very much like scentmask, except for three differences. First, it is a lot more potent: it lasts longer (up to 25 minutes for a Master Ranger) and it rarely breaks.

Rarely breaks is far from accurate.. maskscent works better at this point, as N'Raas writes in his posts. We should holding them to this one and should be an easy fix.

Holo: The most important change to Frontiering will be the introduction of special camps. These camps will not operate like a normal rest camp. The Ranger's "Hunting Blind" will give him special bonuses to attracting and hunting creatures as long as he stays within it. Other special camps with unique functionality are being designed.

Bugs with camps repelling creatures will be fixed...see the scout correspondent response post for information on camp xp related changes and fixes.

Couple things in this... First aggro will be fixed. Secondly, what's this Hunting Blind? And what are these newly designed camps? I have a feeling that some of our proposals won't even matter because it sounds like they already have it planned out. Let's get them to elaborate before we keep coming up with new ideas.. maybe they have some great ideas none of us thought about.

And then of course there's /track. I'm looking forward to this and would like to hear an update.

All I'm saying is we need to be holding them to the original list before we expect them to make special weapons, hunting cabins, creature harvestors, etc... N'Raas has done an outstanding job compiling our issues and detailing our ideas. He's showing to be a first rate correspondent for sure.

I just wonder if we're getting ahead of ourselves as a group. While we can submit our lists, I think it's important to get more clarification on what's supposedly already in the works and an update on when we can start to expect these new things. If these things come through, some of our current thoughts and ideas may be less needed or desirable. If there's one thing I've learned from most dev teams is that player suggestions are not often implemented as stated.. they always have other ideas how to resolve the same problem, probably due to their point of view as developers.

I'm asking N'Raas to find out from Holo and GreenMarine what the progress of these items is right now and if they see them implemented anytime soon. It certainly does appear that Green has his hands full right now, but let's not forget that this was suppose to coming our way duein order to"make up for a weak initial skill set." Please make this the top of the list first and the rest to follow.

Japhy

Agreed...

I'm most interested in knowing moreof what GreenMarine's thoughts are in regards to the traps and camps.

That is why I added the following line to both the Traps and Camps focus issues.

If possible we would be most grateful if you were to provide us with more information regarding your designs for the trapping system

Thanks N'Raas!

I just wish they would tell us now so we have a better idea of what to put on our wish list.

The Ranger's "Hunting Blind" will give him special bonuses to attracting and hunting creatures as long as he stays within it.

Melee Rangers screwed again. One more trinket I'll never get to use. <sigh>

i dont think even the vaunted ancient indians went around hunting buffalo with a knife...

And I'm pretty sure they didn't hunt Kimogillas with a flamethrower. What of it?

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jmatt wrote:

The Ranger's "Hunting Blind" will give him special bonuses to attracting and hunting creatures as long as he stays within it.

Melee Rangers screwed again. One more trinket I'll never get to use.

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Screwed again? How so? Who says I can't use a trap to pull the victim into my blind and beat him down right there?

Not saying you're wrong, just saying perhaps the whole story hasn't been told yet.