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Since the CU I only take orders for resources I can get from creatures Iget off the terminals. Otherwise I would go insane. Sorry I can't give you any better advice

Did you do a "contract" hunt? (ie. he/she usually has only one hunter working for them, and expects that person to get all they need.. maybe around 50k or 100k?)

That's the reason I only hunt when there are no min-max limits set -- although it can be annoying for a crafter to buy 1k units, so I always try to bring at least 20k or 10k minimum.

Rori is the second worse spot to hunt for avian, behind tatooine. No vir vurs or rasps show up on the terminals, unfortunately. Your best bet is to be a master ranger, and find another master ranger to group with. (One patient enough to wander around on Rori looking for rabbits with bird meat)
And take Veghash to scrape those extra 1-5 units from each harvest.

If you're doing a contract hunt, mention to your buyer that he should find several other hunters to also help him reach his goal. (something like 100k of rori avian, for example, would be unreasonable IMO)

If you don't have a contract, but just need large amounts..
Well, there aren't large amounts on rori, but sometimes you get lucky and find a few wild spawns. Midnight vir-vurs and some of the large rasps probably have the most. Also, try to Poacher Vs. Creature battle POI.. I haven't been there in a while, but it used to spawn random waves of creatures and vir vurs would sometimes be among them. Just clear out the creatures and maybe something with avian will spawn. Otherwise, without tracking, it's pretty tough to find avian on Rori.

Yea there is the same problem with Talusian Scaley Hide. You cant get them off terms and its used in bacta infusers. So its really not worth it.

Don't take contracts you can't fulfill (or before you know how hard it is to fullfill them).

Rori Avian is notorious for being one of the hardest, mind-numbing, and most profitable hunt's for us. But I mainly see it as a way for low-level noob scouts to make money as it can be gotten off of terminals if you're low enough.

The old pre-CU way was to equip a lousy weapon and group with low-level players and/or pets, then hope you can get low enough missions. I don't know how that would work post-cu.

As for driving around and trying to spot natural spawns, i tried that and killed like 3 vir-vir's for my 2 hours of effort, not recommended. If you're REALLY lucky, and I mean i've only heard of one person who's been able to do this, you might be able to find a natural spawn of vir-virs and you can just shoot them all day. Again I wouldn't count on it.

I know i collected about 30k last time Rori Avian hit Intrepid (which was a long time ago) and it nearly drove me insane.

Best advice, pick up some 30k resource kits and call it good.

BTW, if you don't mind me asking, how much are you getting paid per unit (cpu)? I know you're on a different server and all, but I'm still curious. And how much of a stack of meat does your employer want you to get.

Message Edited by jcecil on 05-18-2005 11:36 AM

Thanks guys for the help and information. Very useful indeed

Well, he asked me to supply 100k at 20cpu. My answer was "I will see what I can do". I feel somewhat obligated to help him out as he has been quite generous in the past (30 cpu for tat rep meat - I made a bundle :smileyvery-happy.

Again, I appreciate the advice. I think I may need to tell him that I may not be able to help him out will this particular request.

Cheers

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GJames wrote:

Thanks guys for the help and information. Very useful indeed

Well, he asked me to supply 100k at 20cpu. My answer was "I will see what I can do". I feel somewhat obligated to help him out as he has been quite generous in the past (30 cpu for tat rep meat - I made a bundle :smileyvery-happy.

Again, I appreciate the advice. I think I may need to tell him that I may not be able to help him out will this particular request.

Cheers

IGN: Zutzo Issow

Master Ranger / Master Rifleman

Server: Chimarea

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ouch 100k of rori avain for 20 cpu. Even if you could get missions, he's not paying you enough.

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Carbiner
Bloodfin

Rori Avi and Correlian Wooley are my least favorite things to hunt... Rori Avi is WAY FRICKING AHEAD.

double-post oops.

Iseult
Master Ranger / Mediocre Carbiner
Bloodfin

Message Edited by Iseult on 05-18-2005 02:57 PM

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GJames wrote:

Thanks guys for the help and information. Very useful indeed

Well, he asked me to supply 100k at 20cpu. My answer was "I will see what I can do". I feel somewhat obligated to help him out as he has been quite generous in the past (30 cpu for tat rep meat - I made a bundle :smileyvery-happy.

Again, I appreciate the advice. I think I may need to tell him that I may not be able to help him out will this particular request.

Cheers

IGN: Zutzo Issow

Master Ranger / Master Rifleman

Server: Chimarea

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No offense, but I think you need to find a new line of work. If you took that contract you have to be insane.

Again, I know we're talking different servers but unless you have an economy where a full suit of comp armor cost 50k, then whoever offered you that contract is not your friend. He/she is trying to rip you off.

And I'm sorry, but there is no way in heaven or hell that one person could EVER harvest 100k of Rori Avian in one season. You'd have to get an army of scouts to work for you. You said yourself how miniscule the amounts are on these things, it's insane. The only way I got 30k was because I used every trick in the book. I was Master Ranger, used Veghash constantly, used a harvest droid, AND I had my Scout Alt playing at the same time, running two clients simultaneously on one PC, following one step behind at all times, AND at the time you got better harvests if you weren't grouped, but me and my alt both had to take at least one shot at the critters in order to harvest. So I was Alt-Tabbing, grouping/ungrouping, downing Veghash like M&Ms, harvesting then biking then more missions. Having my alt follow me on foot, then follow on bike, then get off bike, then stop following, then follow again. Grouping/ungrouping, calling pets, and changing weapons to get exactly the right level of missions, etc, etc, etc.... Plus, Rori stinks as it's deserted, always dark, and the terrain is attrocious, esp. if you're trying to find this teeny-tiny bird that you just shot and can barely see on the side of a mountain in tall grass.

I think you get the idea that I have very strong and not particularly fond memories of my time hunting rasps. It just makes me furious that someone would be so cruel as to ask another player to collect the ungodly amount of 100k of this stuff, and then double-stab you in the back by only offering 20cpu. That person is not a friend.

Oh, and just FYI, I was getting 450cpu. Different time, different server,... since CU different game.....I know, but still! (This was back when buffs were huge and expensive and needed avian to make, have no idea what they're used for now, don't care).

P.S., on the flip side though, I have to admit that my Rori Avian time completely changed the game for me. For the first time since I started playing months earlier, I had money, real money. It completely opened up a whole new world of the game to me, and for that I'm gratefull.

Message Edited by jcecil on 05-18-2005 07:03 PM

Well, the thing I like about this game is that it's all a learning curve. You tend to learn something new every day.

I agree that the 20cpu is a little low. But I have also seen other hunters offering (or accepting contracts)to collect the same meat (Rori avian)on the Chimaera server for a verymeasly 10 or 15 cpu. I suspect that after running around for an hour or two, they may come to the same conclusion that their time is a lot more valuable for such a measly amount, and that Rori is indeed a hunter's nightmare.

I have also had numourous requests to collect other typesof meat and bone for a measly 5 cpu. Well, in the most polite way possible, I basically said no. I personally dont accept contracts for less than 15 cpu, even if the drop rate is very high.

Again I appreciate the feedback from you experienced hunters. It is always appreciated to get intelligent and helpful feedback.

Happy hunting!

20cpu for rori avian? oooh ouch

If the price was a bit better you could afford to subcontract. Get a bunch of scouts out hunting for you, selling to you at 50% the ticket price and then you sell on to the customer as 'wholesaler'. They'd still have to be pretty dedicated to work that into a 100k stack to.

soz

For hunting non-mission'able resources like Rori Avian and Talusian Scaley I find the following to work fairly well.

Only hunt around the most populated city on the planet, do NOT venture out into the wild. These are generally low level spawn that are subject to being generated by traffic (as is most all wild spawn) around the cities. In the wild you are the only one the server is reacting to, around the cities the general population is helping you out.

Find yourself an area that you can sweep back and forth across outside the city, something say 1000m long. Walk this swath over and over looking/tracking for you quarry. Remember, any given low level wild spawn is as likely to pop up around a city as any other. There are some exceptions to this, most old hunters have found spots on planets where the spawn of certain creatures is known to have a higher concentration such as Krayts generally being found in the north of Tatooine. But in the absence of specific advice, just keep going back and forth.

As you go back and forth, blow up other low level lairs to make room for new wild spawn, some of which will eventually be what you are looking for. You don't even have to take time to kill off the two or three creatures wandering around the lair as part of it's "first wave" if you don't like to, just blow the lair and move on.

When you find what you are looking for and have killed off the first wave, tap the lair as lightly as possible. There are some good posts around here talking about how to draw all the waves out of a lair but some things seem to have changed post-CU. We were hitting level 15 Rot Mite lairs hunting Talusian Scaley last night and some of the lair were putting out 20+ creatures if we gave it timewith no tappingon the lair at all. When the lair is actually empty you will know becuase the damage from even a light tap will cause huge damage (10,000 plus some times) and one or two taps will blow it.

Always use veghash (as Kimi had mentioned above) to scrape that last few units of hide off their bones (a 30% bonus) and hunt with another Master Ranger for the additional 40% havest bonus.

If you are hunting low level creatures like this abandon all normal hunting tactics (especailly those of the rifleman). Equip your fastest weapon, walk right up to the lair and start shooting. Low level creature like this even in large mobs will not present a danger so just go up and thump them at close range so you don't have to run in and out to harvest. In the old days this would call for the use of ageneric speed sliced Spray Stick, these days I'm still looking around to see what's best though Tusken rifles (always my favorite) are looking pretty good. One thing for certain, you don't want to burn up your best Laser Rifle or T21 hunting level 10 creatures.

Lastly, 100k of non-mission low level resources will take you weeks to collect and 20 cpu, even post-CU, is far to low a price when during the same period of time you could easily collect (literally) a million units of recycled hide for sale to architects in 100k stacks for for 10 cpu.

Hope this helps.

Good hunting and clear skies