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Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:11 pm
by Seether
ok, so i decide to go to the mainland.... leave the town, hoping to do some serious harvesting/foraging... my current level is 27... is that low? i suspect it is.. from the poor results i`m getting.. or total lack of results...
i`ve been all over the place, not found a thing.. occasionally i`ll get the message: "You could detect the presence of raw materials, but they were too hard to find using your current prospecting action" ... ooh close but not close enough
Maybe i am just too low level, i`ve tried concocting all different kinds of actions, but nothing seems to work...
Ive been killed by so many mobs (by trying to find that special spot), that its taking me longer to get rid of my death penalty points than it is to progress in the game.
any tips welcome...
Seether.
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:21 pm
by genod
Seether wrote:ok, so i decide to go to the mainland.... leave the town, hoping to do some serious harvesting/foraging... my current level is 27... is that low? i suspect it is.. from the poor results i`m getting.. or total lack of results...
i`ve been all over the place, not found a thing.. occasionally i`ll get the message: "You could detect the presence of raw materials, but they were too hard to find using your current prospecting action" ... ooh close but not close enough
Maybe i am just too low level, i`ve tried concocting all different kinds of actions, but nothing seems to work...
Ive been killed by so many mobs (by trying to find that special spot), that its taking me longer to get rid of my death penalty points than it is to progress in the game.
any tips welcome...
Seether.
You need to upgrade your prospecting action to pick up materials of a higher quality. Buy the skills 'Prospection for <fine/choice etc.> materials', include them in your prospecting skill and try those spots again. The results should be a little more favourable.
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:21 pm
by Eshin
Seether wrote:occasionally i`ll get the message: "You could detect the presence of raw materials, but they were too hard to find using your current prospecting action"
You need to prospect that spot with Find Better Materials stanza. If you have, for example, stanza for choice quality implemented and it still says the same thing, you need to implement excellent quality stanza (and so on). You get these stanzas very early on.
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genod.. well, at least mine was a tad bit longer
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:10 am
by lazarus
In addition to the earlier replies, if you don't have the better mats stanzas (which you really need to get at the earliest opportunity if you don't), try foraging around the borders of your town.
There are still plenty of basic mats out there, so keep at it, you'll find them eventually. I've found basic mats way out in the middle of nowhere in pretty big quantities, scattered all over the map.
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:40 am
by Seether
OK, thanks for the tips guys, i need to get more XP as i`ve spent all my points
but i think i know what you mean,. Yes, i have missed out some skills and hopefully i can still buy them?
i have the `find better materials` stanza, so i might go for the `excellent` mats stanza. , and see how i go.
The game seems to have a high learning curve, especially when looking at all the harvesting/foraging stanzas and actions., i`ll keep plugging away at it, as i`m enjoying the game immensly
thanks again,
Seether
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 8:49 am
by Eshin
Good luck with your endeavours. As someone on these forums already said, the game has a somewhat steep learning curve, but it's well worth it. I couldn't agree more.
Oh and yes, you can still train them, even though you've missed them before. It's not a bad decision to get all of those "Find better material" stanzas, given the situation they all are handy to cut down on focus usage, if you know what quality you're digging up that is.
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 11:46 am
by ozric
Seether wrote:i have the `find better materials` stanza, so i might go for the `excellent` mats stanza. , and see how i go.
If your skill points are limited, i would only take up to the "choice" stanza. The excellent and supreme materials, certainly on the mainland at least, are only found in "timed" and/or "weather condition" sources. By this i mean the sources are not always available, even if you have the correct actions to find them. Choice mats are always available however.
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:20 pm
by Eshin
ozric wrote:Choice mats are always available however.
Well, I had plenty of choice quality harvest spots during the last ob that were most definitely daytime dependent. However, what they had in common was that there were also excellent qualities around that spot, but the spots were mainly all about choice really (if you consider the acreage).
So if excellent qualities, and higher, are dependent on the daytime/weather/season, every choice spot around them are too. (I'm led to believe that is, previously I just thought that choice can be dependent on times too)
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 7:36 pm
by ozric
Hmm, ive never found any choice spots that were time dependant. They have always been available regardless of time of day etc. Are you sure that it wasnt just that the area had depleted and you had to wait for the mat source supply to "regen" again ?
Re: Need Help/tips for mainland foraging... struggling here..
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2004 12:24 am
by Eshin
ozric wrote:Are you sure that it wasnt just that the area had depleted and you had to wait for the mat source supply to "regen" again ?
I'm more than sure. Couple of my favourite choice spots actually got wiped of from my harvesting routes because they couldn't be accessed due to the season at that time. I do, believe or not, know the difference between the messages that the souce isn't available at the moment and that it has been depleted
Funny thing, really, that the common factor was that they had excellent spots nearby. The pure choice spots, or more like areas, that I had were accessible regardless of the daytime or season, like you said that they are.