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Thread: Rangers come through!
Lok-Robster wrote:
I've looked all through the Ranger and Scout FAQs and I have found nothing about milking. Great stuff on fishing, but not milking.
So far, milking has been a horrible experiencefor me. The creatures wander around and server lag lets them get too far away and break the milking process (takes like 20 seconds per attempt to get successful result). It just takes FOREVER!
If someone has made a guide, or has some advice, I'd be most grateful...
It's in there!
There's a section on milking.
Just be mask scented, move slowly and make sure they're female herbivores.
Warm hands help too.
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Milking
That’s right boys and girls! Not only are we Scouts, we’re also dairy farmers.
This sounds funny, but milk is one of the absolute most sought after harvestable materials. I’ve heard cases of 10k worth of milk going for a million credits on Bloodfin, and averages nearly 200 CPU.
This is primarily because it’s time consuming to get. Almost as time consuming as fishing (I won’t go into fishing here – read Volsted’s Guide to Fishing on the Scout Forums, or my FNTM-Ranger guide).
First of all – you can only milk herbivorous creatures, so don’t start trying to make nice to a lady Rancor. Second – as one would expect – you can only milk female creatures. In order to milk a creature you need to be mask scented, as well.
One good tip for milking is to get two destroy missions for the type of critter you’re trying to milk. Get them close to each other – then run back and forth milking every critter you can between the lairs.
These milking facts I knew...
So there's no trick to getting the creatures to stay still? Or to milk faster? They keep wandering off while I'm working, walking faster then I can run (Master Ranger Terrain Negotiation included). Mask Scent is not a problem, it's always on. I just can't keep up with the moving mommas.