I hate Big Shell

[lyrah68]

I could go on for HOURS about how broken resource tracking is. I have tried everything but found that there is NO way to reliably track anything.

I have found that if I try to track JUST the type of material (shell), I can find shell...maybe...but I can also find resin, fiber, counterballance, you name it.

I have tried to track JUST the grade of the material. For instance, CHOICE only...I found choice, basic, fine, and excellent. In other words, my search for JUST CHOICE materials FAILED more often than it suceeded.

If don't DARE get fancy and try to track, Choice ONLY, BIG Shell (two seperate searches for kind of material and TYPE of material).

If I just plain track for ANY node, it is a TOTAL crap shoot. I could find ANY type, grade, or kind of material node...it could be FULL and in good condition, it could be excellent but not there at the moment I am so very sorry try back later but I sure as heck aint gonna tell you NA NA PP (sorry but that is what that message says to me), OR I could find the spot exhausted.

I find that using tracking is about as reliable as driving a car with a faulty gas gauge...I might make it to my destination...but then again...maybe not.

Why dont you track it ?

[bodywand]

The only thing I use tracking for is searching excellent only or supreme only.. sometimes with mat spec on em. Works fine 99% of the time .

[josephm]

Indeed Tracking works just fine for me. The only problem I have with a 300m+ track is that sometimes I have to find a roundabout way to get there. By this time it will be night or day or the weather will change. Once I'm at the node, I prospect and I get a bad weather/time message. This is fine, I know where it is. I still think it would be more fun if my prospect ended and I had to go back once I had a general idea the next day!

In Jungle I've found no superbs, however excellent is everywhere if you have the patience to look for it. I have almost every excellent node I need. Different areas will also yield same type node sources in both agro / peaceful spots. For example, in the Knot (q200), choice big shell is near agro. This is odd because the excell is realtively far off from everything else, and a wierd sap pops that has nothing to do with the other mats.

In the void (q250) and umbra(q200) I have spots where excell bigshell is not under agro. I also believe excellent beckers, when in season in Umbra, to be under Kincherkya. Might be Beng amber though. Think Beckers. However in haven 150 max level, not 200, I can get excellent beckers VERY easily.

Agro changes over seasons etc.

Thanks for the advice on clouds. I'll pay more attention to them when I hunt and see how things work out.