Ok first of all not only us but even the devs have to think is what is a ranger in todays society that we live and what was a ranger centuries ago.... to get what ranger would be in a futuristic world like star wars .... so before we get to SWG a ranger today is a member of the armed forces but not only as an ordinary profession part of infantry like a rifleman is but as one of the elite special forces in the army ... now a ranger got to be all that because of years and years of learning training and developing survival technics not just in the wilderness and foreing terrains but also on foreign territory such as bases cities ,....
Now those are surviving technics now we get to the roles .... a ranger primary role today would be recon which may include recover and assault.
Now lets go a little bit to some of the roles we have on SWG
Tracking: now you are able to track basicly any lifeform but you only get direction and distance, have to unmount everytime while a surveyor is able to track resourses while mount. The way I see it as a master ranger this should not be an issue at all ! another thing and i believe this have to do with the animation .... a ranger when it tracks looks at the horizon to see where things are now we all know that a ranger tracks by studing the terrain for possible ground vibration fallen objects footprints smell,... so i would see first the need to wider range, the need to actual special waypoint, being able to track while mounted ! different animation in the case would be something like the Lord of the rings the Two towers like when aragorn ( a true ranger) put his ear on the ground and felt vibration and also by sampleing the terrain was able to ping point where the orcs were.
Cammo: a little effective against other creatures. Now, one of my biggest disapointment on this is the fact that we use camuflage on the armed forces and it is not just to hide from wild creatures but to hide from enemies, now the way I see cammo should be agree with what everybody has been proposing taking you out of the radar but one thing you are all forgeting is that a cammo kit is also suppose to make you look different or more a like the enviroment. the way i see that is everytime you put a cammo kit on you should also be hard to see by anyone around you and to that i propose the Predator invisibility device so, you would not be completly invisible but you would be hard to see looking like a moving glass sculpture. Also with that the abilitie to decise himself as Imperial or rebel by wearing factional uniform and having a different simbol for a certain ammount of time (would be good for a quick getaway when pvp is effective lol)
Traps: Ok, come on we all know if i make a hole on tthe ground and cover with leaves anyone not just creatures will probably fall. So, it is not just used for creatures but humans as well I hope the Dev team gets this one above all lol
Weapons: Currently none. Now bounty hunter and smmugler have their own little pistols why cant we have our own little rifle tree (since rifleman ranger is the best combo)
Frontiering: I would propose we change this title to jungle or foreing terrain training 1, 2, 3, 4 tittle being Jungle surviver or Foreign terrain master or surviver. here we could include all the creature knowledge terrain negociations, forageing camps, surviving tool creation ability (really like that proposal) of course we could divide in 2 trees like stealth and jungle training or foreing terrain training.
well here are my suggestions it was not perfect like i wanted to putted out but im at work right now so is hard to type and get a lot of details on subject though i believe yopu can all understand where im comming from and where I want and we all want our profession to go
Hopefully CSR will get this ! as well as Gizmos Force ranking Ideas for a future Jedi revamp that you are all welcome to check it out at
Message Edited by Wilhelmy on 03-27-2005 10:06 AM
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