Game Mechanics: Druid Tracking Skill Level Too High

[Handull]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Can you explain further?

From the patch notes link in Ele's original post:

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February 21, 2001 3:00 am
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*Patch Day*

*Tracking*

Tracking now works in full view for all classes that can use it, and
sports a nifty scroll bar that allows players to see everything on the
list. In addition, the /trackplayer setting is now saved to the
eqclient.ini file.

The following options have been put in for Rangers only:

--- /tracksort
--- /trackfilter

*/tracksort options beginning with R are reverse order

And then two weeks later:
March 6, 2001 Patch Message http://everquest.allakhazam.com/hist...es-2001-1.html

-- The tracking skill cap for Druids has been raised to 125. It was the
intent for druids to be better at tracking than they were, however
before the scroll bar, smaller skill numbers were often considered
better. With the tracking improvements from the last patch, this
increase was appropriate.

The point is that before you could scroll or sort the Track window, a lower skill in Tracking had some benefit, that being that you could see most/all mobs in the area around you. A higher tracking skill in a crowded dungeon allows the tracker to see new pops around them, but not all the mobs in the area.

My point is that while fixing druid track to 50 is a step towards classic, and the scroll bar change was a separate patch, the patch to give druids 125 skill clearly says that this change goes along with the addition of the scroll bar, so to change druid track to 50 without trying to remove the scroll bar seems unfair to me, and since a dev hadn't adressed the scroll bar yet I wanted to bring it up again.

[Ele]

As it relates to all tracking for the time being until the post-velious release upgrade (Feb. 2001):

The tracking window should be limited to 20 entries.

from the first link in OP:

What they really need to do is to FIX tracking. Make it filterable, make it
customizable, make it hold more than 20 frigging entries, add a scrollbar, and
make it usable for more than seeing what's newly spawned in the entire zone.

[Nneen]

Just to let you guys know how worthless a skill of 50 tracking is, I am currently in Oasis and just got track so its at around 50. Sitting on the 2nd pillar I can't even track crocs that i can see to the right before the first hill. You may want to ask the community what they think of this because I can see this seriously frustrating people who have already had a higher skill and it be taken away.

[Sundawg]

Remember back in the day it was only 1st person view and even a track of 50 skill would be useful in that environment.

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Sundawg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Remember back in the day it was only 1st person view and even a track of 50 skill would be useful in that environment.

Please take me with you.

[kanras]

Capped tracking at 20 NPC results, pending update.

[Handull]

Originally Posted by kanras [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Capped tracking at 20 NPC results, pending update.

doin work kanras!

[Labanen]

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[Pufferfish]

Curious, shouldn't Druid Tracking be moved up to 125 by now?

I ask because today I checked my skill level, and it's been reduced to 20. Seems like the opposite direction.

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[Ele]

Originally Posted by Pufferfish [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Curious, shouldn't Druid Tracking be moved up to 125 by now?

I ask because today I checked my skill level, and it's been reduced to 20. Seems like the opposite direction.

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you on red or blue? There has been a constant issue on red regarding the client/UI thinking it is in an older era while the server implements the later era and shows the lower skill.