Bounty Hunter 21 (Source)
Droid speeds are reversed so the higher up you go the slower they go... I still do missions although seekers at Master take 7 minutes to report and using track and find a minute to 2 minutes between updates.
The devs have known about this bug since the first month after the games release.
All MBH's should be very unhappy if they do.
Right now I know several 3-0-0-0 bh's who use non bh skills to kill their marks... Speed wise they have an advantage over a MBH.
The fact is accuracy on droids works as intended.
Lousy at investigaion 1 , poor at 2 , good at 3 , great at 4 and Best at MBH.
Speeds however are broken and are worse at MBH then at investigation 1... One minute vs Seven Minutes.
If fixed 3 shouldn't see any difference in speed but Find and track right now takes only 30 seconds to update... At MBH it takes 2 minutes to update using find and track and 7 minutes for the first update.
Now if they fix our droids to track PC's and also fix droid speeds MBH will have a distinct advantage in tracking a PC and well they should.
I can't imagine anyone not agreeing that a MBH should have an advantage in tracking a Jedi , put please tell me why we shouldn't , we are all ears.
SOE should do the right thing and fix the seeker speeds at or before they fix tracking PC's... MBH has earned the right to track PC's faster then someone at 3-0-0-0.
Speedwise was in reference to faster seekers at level 3 investigation then at MBH. The concern I have is that players who use only the investigation line in order to hunt Jedi will have an advantage over those of us who are MBH.... MBH 7 minute seekers and 2 minute updates VS Investigation 3, 3 minute seekers with 30 second updates.
So here's the scenario. Gained investigations I. Grinded for 3 days on BH exp before I ran out of cash because I was paying into the missions more than they were paying out. So I gave in, I'm only slightly ashamed to admit. I surrendered Investigations I and went back to doing novice missions until the cap at 10K BH exp. Actually, I was looking forward to doing droid missions after all that. I shouldn't have had my hopes up, but I was greatly disappointed. After training up to investigations II, I was suprised to see the mission payouts and exp from the kill was exactly the same as investigations I. The biggest suprise was even though I gained +40 droid tracking speed (up to +50), droids now take almost 1 minute to track the target, where they took only around 15 seconds at investigations I.
When I had Invest II trained, it would take 3 minutes for my droids to acquire the location of my target. Now that I have Invest III trained, it takes over 4 1/2 minutes to do the same job. And this is with the +30 Droid Speed and +40 Droid Tracking Speed mods I got when I trained Invest III.
yah working on inves 4 it takes about4-5 mins.....i think the droid speed mods are bugged and working in reverse, hence hindering our time instead of increasing however the droid tracking ability tracks them at a decent time...oh well..it will be fixed in a a few months
Went to Lok to track a really sneaky one - then the server reboots JUST as I get to him. Ahh, frustration, thy name is reboot. Anyway, some additional numbers.
Investigation II:
Arkayd Probe Droid result speed: (2 min 33 seconds (Naboo))
Seeker Droid result speed: Lok: 2:27 3:27 3:12 3:19 2:55 3:13 2:37
investigation 3, sorry I didn't do the math its 5:30am and im tired hope this helps out
- Probe droid sent out at 1:57 :18 results at 2:00:56
- 1st seeker sent out at 2:12:06 results at 2:15:26
- 2nd seeker sent out at 2:16:46 results at 2:20:17
- 3rd seeker sent out at 2:24:44 results at 2:27:07
Investigation 2
kaadara Probe driod - 3:39
in rori
- 1st seeker 3:19
- 2nd seeker 3:30
- 3rd seeker 3:18
- 4th seeker done while standing in front of mark time stamp 37:30 launched and found 39:26
Investigation III
Arakyd 18:16:23 – 18:21:01, Difficulty 29, Tatooine : 4:38 18:47:26 – 18:51:44, Difficulty 30, Lok: 4:16 18:55:21 – 19:00:33: , Difficulty 30, Dantooine : 5:10
Seeker 18:26:38 – 18:32:02 : 3:22 18:26:40 - 18:32:02 : 3:20 18:26:42 - 18:32:26 : 3:42 18:26:44 - 18:32:26 : 3:40
19:03:01 – 19:05:54 : 2:53 19:03:03 – 19:06:32 : 3:29 19:03:05 – 19:06:51 : 3:46 19:03:07 – 19:07:05 : 3:58
ok....Investigation 1, Level 11 mark....
Arakyd Launched on Naboo, mark found on Rori 2 mins..
On Rori...
Seeker 1min 30sec
Seeker 1min 20sec
That's all I had time for...
I'm finally finished! With Investigation 2 that is. Here are the results for the missions I ran today.
PROBES
Location Returned - Return Time
Naboo - 2:59
Naboo - 2:29
Yavin IV - 2:41
Yavin IV - 2:48
Naboo - 2:29
Dathomir - 2:28
Rori - 3:12
Yavin IV - 2:22
Yavin IV 3:09
SEEKERS
Location Launched - Distance to Target - Return Time
Naboo - 4km - 2:59
Naboo - 1.2km - 2:17
Naboo - 250m - 2:17
Naboo - 250m - 2:21
Yavin IV - 5.3km - 2:50
Yavin IV - 4.3km - 2:50
Yavin IV - 3.2km - 3:08
Yavin IV - 1.4km - 2:58
Yavin IV - 500m - 2:17
Naboo - 1km - 2:40
Naboo - 200m - 2:48
Dathomir - 3.5km - 2:21
Dathomir - 1km - 2:55
Rori - 8km - 3:06
Rori - 3km - 3:20
Rori - 2.5km - 2:50
Rori - 1.4km - 2:34
Yavin IV - 7.3km - 3:27
Yavin IV - 6km - 3:12
Yavin IV - 4.5km - 3:08
Yavin IV - 2.3km - 2:24
Yavin IV - 600m - 3:04
Yavin IV - 10km - 3:27
Yavin IV - 2km - 3:06
Yavin IV - 1km - 2:15
Yavin IV - 300m - 2:19
Tomorrow, I start on Investigation 3
I feel like such a slacker...I only ran one bounty mission...
Oh well....details...
LVL 16 Target - Started in Kaadara, Naboo, Wanderhome
Arakyd - 1:23 - located mark on Yavin 4 (wah...6k+ travel expense for a 9k target)
Once on Yavin 4
Seeker - 1:06 Distance 6276
1:10 6087
1:08 4711
1:14 2098
1:12 175
This was between 10:30PM and Midnight Eastern...Investigation Lvl 1
Seekers
Launched 47:45 Located 50:36
Launched 36:12 Located 40:31
Launched 33:58 Located 38:17
Arakyds
Launched 23:50 Located 28:23
Launched 03:52 Located 07:17
Launched 25:54 Located 29:28
This is at 3/4/4/4 Skill level BH
Well...fun so far..
Still working Investigation 1...
Took Mission 12:03AM No Faction ino listed. Payout was 9020c
Probe time from call to sighting on radar: 45 secs Time to identify target planet: 12:11:45 - 12:12:15 on Lok
Travel Cost - 3338 Round Trip
Shuttle wait 9:59
Arrive on Lok - Target 7337m distant
Seekers:
12:18:25 - Destroyed by meteorite 12:19:00 - 12:20:22 still 7337 12:32:15 - Malfunction 12:23:45 - Exploded 12:33:30 - 12:34:50 4212m 12:40:50 - 12:42:10 3770m 12:47:30 - 12:48:50 3159m 12:54:35 - 12:55:55 2638m 01:03:40 - 01:05:10 1676m 01:10:40 - Out of energy 01:11:20 - 01:12:40 1263m 01:17:05 - 01:18:25 941m
Located Mark at 01:21 - Attackable
Target HAM red 8935 green 9920 blue 9767
Con was red
Mark Terminated (with extreme prejudice) at 0125
More Investigation 3 results
Probes
4:17 Dantooine
3:30 Dantooine
3:25 Yavin IV
4:35 Endor
Seekers
4:35 Dantooine
2:28 "
3:21 "
4:13 "
2:42 "
3:04 Yavin IV
3:50 Endor
3:32 "
3:33 "
Investigation 1
Diff:17
Payout: 8512cr
Start Point: Dearic, Talus
Target found: Endor
Probe seek time: 92 sec
Seeker 1: Failed - Exploded
Seeker 2: 84 secs
Seeker 3: 82 secs
Seeker 4: 85 secs
Note: Mark was headed south towards Research Outpost until this point where it suddenly warped 3km to the east and began moving west at an incredible speed. Restarted search pattern to work out intercept point.
Seeker 5: 94 secs
Seeker 6: Failed - Eaten by space slug
Seeker 7: 82 secs
Mark intercepted 3.3km NW of Research Outpost
Mark: If'I Vanik
Health: 9064
Action: 10353
Mind: 8698
Weapon: Rifle- basic model so either CDEF, DLT20 or DLT20a
Standard Attacks: +- 300
Specials Used: Concealed Shot @ 414
Mark terminated.
XP Gained: 3845 Pistol, 123 Carbine, 385 Combat, 85 Bounty Hunter
Mission Time Elapsed: 98 mins.
Total Cost of Mission: 7350cr including cost of droids used (probes @ 100cr per use. Seekers @ 50cr per use) and travel to and from start point.
Net payment: 1162cr
Investigate 1
Start: Kaadara, Naboo
Diff: 17
Probe: 89 secs, target found on Lok
Seeker 1: 82 secs
Seeker 2: 86 secs
Seeker 3: 81 secs
Seeker 4: 82 secs
Seeker 5: 90 secs
Seeker 6: Failed - Out of power
Seeker 7: 84 secs
At this point the mark made a 180 turn and starts heading south deeper into the Lokian wilderness. I give chase. 5kms out I get eaten by a kimagila and get cloned at the Imp base. A series of seeker failures leave me out of seekers.
I run out of the base and call a probe. It lands in the base wall and can't be reached. Mission aborted.
Investigate 1
Start: Dearic, Talus
Probe: 90 secs Target on Corellia /cheer
Seeker 1: 82 secs
Seeker 2: 84 secs
Seeker 3: 83 secs
Seeker 4: 84 secs
Target is now 700m outside Bela Vistal and proceeding towards the town so I decide to experiment. I wait 5 mins and use /areatrack (having just attained ranger tracking 2). Bingo...my mark is in range and to the north. Go north 100m and there he is 128m to my north...nice...we SO need this ability in Investigation.
Engaged mark using buildings as cover...just as hes about to die he throws himself at a wall, becomes stuck, I lose target on him and have to re-aquire. Hes now stuck in a wall and I can't begin attacking again. After 5 mins...he goes white. I then swear continuously for 20 mins without repeating myself once.
Investigate 1
Start: Dearic
Diff: 17
Payout: 8556cr
Probe 1; Fail- exploded
Probe 2: Fail - mynock ate it
Probe 3: 93 secs. Target on Tatooine
Seeker 1: 79 secs
Mark terminated with extreme prejudice, joy and relief on the bridge in Anchorhead.....finally a successful mission....I'm off to bed
SUNDAY'S NEW COMPILE
Investigation I:
Arkayd Probe Droids: 7 Datapoints (Min: 30, Max: 120)
Average: 85.29 seconds
Median: 90 seconds
Seeker Droids: 30 Datapoints (Min: 66, Max: 94)
Average: 81.23 seconds
Median: 82 seconds
Investigation II:
Arkayd Probe Droids: 14 Datapoints (Min: 142, Max: 219)
Average: 171.36 seconds
Median: 166 seconds
Seeker Droids: 42 Datapoints (Min: 114, Max: 211)
Average: 171.83 seconds
Median: 175 seconds
Investigation III:
Arkayd Probe Droids: 10 Datapoints (Min: 205, Max: 310)
Average: 248.3 seconds
Median: 256.5 seconds
Seeker Droids: 20 Datapoints (Min: 142, Max: 338)
Average: 216.85 seconds
Median: 212.5 seconds
