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I charge 3-400k/hour. I like tracking but tracking someone else's stuff is boring and a pain. Also for the hero of tat quests i tracked that damn pirate for 2 days 6 hours each day, and never found him. so i would definantly go with an hourly rate (unless someone asks you something easy, like find a krayt for me for 400k. Then take that deal). If you actually wanted to make money this way i think around 200k.hour is a good rate, based on your servers economy. (for referance ADK's go for about 9M on my server, a good suit of armor 500-650k, and factional suits of armor go for 1M)

Message Edited by linusboarder on 07-30-2005 09:15 PM

Hm, I tend to just take whatever is offered, which has usually been about 50k per found animal (in the case of snorballs) or 100k for the occasional track. I'm rarely up to that much and people rarely ask me to track anyways, so I don't gouge much on the prices, seeing as I'm already worth a couple million.

I've been charging folks I know 50 credits and a beer token IRL when I see them next.

Folks I don't know I generally don't charge since Area Track hates me and on finding what the person want it promptly despawns.

Well I was thinking more along the lines of IF I were spending these hours that I am gonna be tracking running missions instead, then how much would I make there doing that? Plus some things are way more difficult to find than others. Like you mentioned the pirates and yeah that is a nasty one. But why dont they want to PAY for that track? Honestly on my jedi to get that badge It took me days to find some of those random spawns. I just dont know if some of them realize that tracking is notsimply jumping off your bike and POOF there it is *waits for patch that allows rangers to spawn whatever they want*

Ok so it seems I was asking too much for the track. Ill have to tone down my prices for the next person. Thanks very very much for all your input!

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Dyrwen wrote:
Hm, I tend to just take whatever is offered, which has usually been about 50k per found animal (in the case of snorballs) or 100k for the occasional track. I'm rarely up to that much and people rarely ask me to track anyways, so I don't gouge much on the prices, seeing as I'm already worth a couple million.

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Yeah, I do the same. Sometimes they don't even pay me at all but I'm not too bothered about it since tracking is more of a challenge to me rather than a job (Which it shouldn't be. This is a game after all ). The only thing I don't like about tracking is the 'client'. Some of them will get angry when it takes longer than they expected, but I can usually tell who those people are going to be by the way they approach me.

Oh, and another word of advice which I've been saying quite a few times recently. The Hero of Tatooine spawns are crazy right now and it seems they're popping up in totally different locations from what the waypoints in the guides suggest. The bugs are still there too (the pirate may despawn or still attack after turning white and the names of the smugglers for the bounty hunter have been messed up). I'd recommend telling the guy about this first.

Glad I'm not the only one who takes these jobs just for the challenge, since most of the time its nigh-impossible to find what they're looking for, but I tend to think "Well I'm good, maybe I'll find it even though I've never seen it before." You're right though about the clients, since they are the main thing that determines price or how interesting the job gets. A lot of folks get angry about it taking so long, but someone with half a brain will just get angry and push on letting you do your job.

Though it is funny last time I tracked when the two guys showed up and said "Some reason you're not on a speeder?" and I just told them outright, things might spawn behind them that they'd miss and kept on walking. They knew ahead of time from my /tells it might be hard for me to find one, but they said they felt more confident with a master. So one of them drove ahead looking for the spawns while the main guy stayed beside me looking with me. You can figure who found it first, and it wasn't Mr Speeder.

to the op; I'd suggest you try to keep a stiff upper lip when you get these kind of jobs because it's your job that only you are equipped to do. Otherwise they rely completely on luck, rather than a sense of skill that we can use. Whether you find what they seek or not is also luck based, but you've got better odds since you can figure out what direction to go when multiple spawns are on the edge of a radar..heh.

i'd add, too, that you'd be surprised what people are willing to pay...and what they're not willing to pay, for any type of tracking. i used to charge a reasonable amount for tracking on the hero quests and most people were fine with it....others, not so fine and i had a few individuals call me some colorful names because i was 'taking advantage' of the fact that they didn't have this particular skill. if someone tells you you're charging too much, don't take that to mean that someone else (or even in some cases, that particular person) aren't willing to pay that amount. tracking is boring and tedious...there's no reason you should be spending the time you have to play this game (a game which you pay REAL money for) for someone searching for the farmer or what have you for less then what you want. you're the one in charge in this case...you decide how valuable your time is to you.