Scout Archive

This is just too much, from the very week I started scouting I've had to put up with Fett-wannabes,**edit** Handlers, and Striken Leaderssharing my profession. Also, until recently everyone who was sick of climbing hills at the rate of a meter per hour was also a scout dabbler. So everyonebut the non-existent Droid Engineers is free to sullythe reputation of scouting. Fine, I can put up with the good name of my class dragged through the mud. Then, in their infinite wisdom, theDevs introduce holocrons and my beloved Scout forum iscrowdedwith junk messages like"Tell me howto grind scout in 5 hours, Plz!". I'm not a power gamer, but I've been playing since the first week andhaven'tyet reached master!

But the last couple weeks there is a trend that makes all these greviences pale in comparison. While minding my ownbusiness hunting on Talus I wasconfronted by repeated... I'd say slap in the face, but it's more like akick in the groin.Still the verythoughtof it sickens me! If I can bring myself to type this... I saw lairs with fyrocks, sludge panthers, even decay mites, with the title of (Scout)! There I typed it, although meer works can't do justice to this travesty. How can SOE expect us to put up with virtually every1337 dewdspeaking power gamer and THEN ADDINSULT TO INJURY BY INCLUDING THE VERY CREATURES WE HUNT!!!!! Delta, you're a resonable man, alwaysworking hard on our behalf but you've really been remiss by not addressing this issue! SOE had better get it's act together or I'm leaving and taking my seven Krayt camping alt accounts with me!

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Incase you didn't guess by now, the preceeding two paragraghs were typed with tounge planted firmly in cheek. Alas, both where my own...but enough about my problems, I have a serious question about the new "scout" creatures. Does anyone have a clue how they aredifferent from the others? I've been observing them and they don't appear to act all that different from their lair-mates. Am I missing something here or is SOE just playing with our heads again?

"Does anyone have a clue how they aredifferent from the others?"

Given the chance,a (Scout) creature will run back to its lair and bring whatever friends are hanging around down on top of you.

Yes it is a joke. If you'll notice the following part of the original post,

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Incase you didn't guess by now, the preceeding two paragraghs were typed with tounge planted firmly in cheek. Alas, both where my own...but enough about my problems, ..."

Thanks for the info NRaas, your the second coolest correspondent.

As for the other guy, I guess you can't reallyblame him.... Isn't it one of the unwritten rules of the internet that if you post a sarcastic joke on a message board at least one person will take you seriously?

7 other Krayt camping accts? Oh brother. I'm sure if you have 7 other accts that can take down Krayts you can at least manage to master scout. And this has got to be the most useless complaint I've ever seen. Chef's can't make anything of any use, BE's are glorified vet's, the list goes on. There are so many broken trades. (Scout) creatures have been around since day one, you didn't notice them until now? Scout is a "Novice" skill...you're upset about dabblers in a novice skill?!?!?! You have got to be the first Elitest scout I've ever met. Why don't you let the dev's address important concerns like broken professions before we go "changing" a mundane detail like an animal called a (Scout) that no one really even cares about except the one guy who thinks a Scout is a noble and elite art.

Just to clarify: a scout is someone who is dispatched from a main body to gather information. An expert in the art of reconnoitering. Technically, you can have someone who's a "scout" who's never even touched the profession. If a creature has been dispatched by his herd, or peck, or pack, or whatever name it goes by, as an advance party for either foraging or defense, it's a scout. So why can't it be called a scout? Besides, aren't scouts supposed to be masters at survivng outside a city? If so, then it seems to me the rest of us are insults to the creatures who do it all the time.

I don't flame people often, but honestly. This is a joke, right? You can't honestly be this upset over BH's, dabblers, and now creatures being scouts.

Soj,

I'm pretty sure that one is actually written down.

B

Delta,

I have a rather high appreciation of low irony, and if I'm not mistaken, so do you. Good one!