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I've been finding so many thieves and bandits down by the lake at resolute, that I can't hardly find any thugs...

 

Guys, the share the same areas... depending who hunted what before you, there may be more of one type and less of the other.

So like the guy before you pulled and killed thieves, then you will find the area containing more thugs and bandits.

If you don't fell like killing them all to force respawns, go on one of the other spawns or just return some time later.

 

Im sergeant slave - [IFN Staff Sergeant Access Card].
Found and killed 5 Vandals and stopped - too much time consuming
Rest will try to do after new VU if it get any better.
Until now 700 punyes, 700 bandits, 1400 thugs, 3000 thieves so total 5800 mobs what is half irron or IFN mission chain ....

 

I need to complain, Holy no vandals. I've killed 7. I think I give up, I'll never finish this quest, its too time consuming. Need a higher vandal spawn badly

 

I have to agree. I am still on thieves, and finding an ok amount at Repulse. Tons of bandits there also, plus a decent supply of thugs. But so very few vandals. When I finish thieves I will have to shelve the IFN promotion grind till something changes.

 

Sinkillerj posted this in another thread, I thought I would copy it here, seemed pertinent to this thread:

East of Repulse Academy: Thugs and Bandits with scattered Thieves

South of Kestrel Digsite: Thugs and Bandits with scattered Thieves, saw one Vandal

North of Victorious Firebase: Thives and Bandits, saw one Thug and one Vandal

East of Robot Factory: Mostly Vandals and Looters, a few Thugs Bandits and Thieves. Spawn is at [22892, 13678, 196], this one is long run, but there is a revive (no TP) at [22447, 13521, 262]. Straight run back to the TP seams mob free.

South of Cobra Digsite: Menaces and Looters

NE of Indomitable Firebase East: Menace Looter and Rogue, some Vandals.

North of Valiant Firebase: Fiend Menace and Villain

North Of Implacable Firebase: Thugs and Bandits, some looters and menaces

As for me, I killed about 20 thieves today at Victorious, and during that time saw about 20 bandits and 10 vandals. Then I gave up.

 

I explored east of Robot Factory, found 32 Vandals in more than one hour.
Most looters there.
I hoped it will bebetter in this VU but no.
Cant burn 3 hours or more to kill 100 one shoot mobs and in same time to be forced to kill other mobs wich dont count.
Its boring and silly.
Will give another try in next days but im afraid i will discover that i dont wish to be general.

 

SW of Rocky Ridge - L10 Prospector Enforcers

Honest to god I didn't think they could do it but they have made vandals even harder to hunt. I absolutely give up

 

Btw, the missions reset earlier now. Not sure if it's a shorter countdown or a set hour, but I finished mine yesterday at 12:15 and now (9:45) I already have the next one available. This is not reflected in the mission description though.

 

Are there still prospectors near Resolute? I can find the Oro, but have yet to see an Oratan there. I see a large area of water I assume to be the 'lake' but no Oratans.

I have just finished a brief hunt once again north of Victorious. Looking for thieves, I found and killed one, all the other prospectors were nearly all vandals, maybe about 20 of them, plus close to a dozen bandits. A very few looters and thugs were there also.

It would be nice if we could agree on (possibly create) a chat channel specifically for this mission, for the purpose of telling each other the current (and apparently temporary) best hunting spot for each maturity.

 

btw u now get an achievement with your assigned Firebase when u visit there again.
or was it there b4? cuz people complained not knowing where they originally were assigned to.

 

It wasn't. You're not crazy.

 

Spent an hour and a bit looking for Thieves at Victorious - actually got 66 - pretty good I thought at the time. Not the best, but ok.

Then had to break off.

Came back to no more Thieves.

So spent the next 90 mins tooling around Implacable, Repulse, then back to Victorious and around again twice more looking for more Thieves - actually got another 24 in that 90 mins.

Finally gave up after finding just one Thief on my last visit to Victorious, needing just 10 to complete the mission but now out of time.

Loads of Thugs, Bandits, Vandals Looters even Menaces but Thieves....?

This puts the whole mission in a completely different light. It means you have to take a lot more time, or split it over a number of days, so the 30 days of Thieves is realistically going to be 60 days elapsed taking all my in-game time - so I have to question the value of doing the mission.

I have with luck an hour a day in-game, sometimes a little more. To have to devote all my time to not-complete a daily mission makes that mission untenable.

Shame

 

I got achievement, but what is the point of Firebase where we are assigned? Do we get some new orders there? I am doing daily from IFN terminal.

 

you could actually check in achievements which firebase you are assigned to.

 

As said during the IFN vu this will play a important role later on, that content is not ready yet.

 

I didn't - think I saw a "You are assigned to Dependable Firebase" but didn't get an achievement when I went there (nor at Dauntless or Defiant).

Looked in my Achievements but couldn't see anything in there regarding assignments nor anything to do with these daily Prospector/Promotion grinds.

What I did find, which worries me, is that apparently I have not completed basic training at a firebase!!! It would be an idea for all of you to look under 'Arkadia System > General' in Achievements and see if you've unlocked basic training.

 

The Starting Out - Visit New Arrival Information Desk at an academy? I got that today when I passed through an FB. All they really want us to do is go through the tutorials - as if I haven't already.

 

A few answers to what was asked in last posts:

- reset timer is indeed shorter now - 21 hours instead of previous 24 hours.
- my observations since VU seem to say: thugs - consistent at Repulse (almost always tons of thugs there), bandits - not consistent, some at Repulse, some at Kestrel, some at Victorious but neither of places being the most common maturity, thieves - consistent at Kestrel, vandals - consistent at Victrorious
- You get the achievement first time you teleport to a firebase (any firebase); subsequently you can find it in achievments - arkadia - last page (6th).

 

....or they've 'lost' our 'progress' history........