Forage Tracking Question

[lyrah68]

Tracking is NOT prospecting...Tracking is a game of hot and cold to lead you to the node to prospect it. In Fyros lands...it is pretty much a waste of sp. You can FIND the nodes...with micro vegitation set a 10% by standing on or near the pebbles or "freckles" as some call them.

I had this skill in beta...I found it to be frustrating and use MORE focus than I could afford, once I FOUND the spot...I had to sit and regen for a while before I could look around for what it found.

Now in Matis land...I will DEFINATELY get it...I need more of a clue than "just poke around the tree over there" WHICH TREE there is only 50 million of the things??!!

I would have done foraging a tad differently. I would..for one...like a skill of "ignore lesser materials" to avoid basic nodes when looking for choice. I think at level 40 or maybe 50 you should be able to do that. I think it should be like any other skill, cost from 10 to 20 SP, and cost more focus to use it, but we SHOULD get the skill.

From a reality stand point, which this game does make ALOT of real sense most of the time, a geologist would KNOW if the area had more Choice or more Basic and would be able to see and KNOW which he was going to get.