Wondering what's the quickest way to do it, anybody can do it on 2-3 toons per run ?
I've tried something, not sure if it's the best:
- start at the northern area of the island where you have 5 grouped together (sometimes I only do these 5, hunting for eggs)
- continue to the nearby 3 that are somewhat close
- beam in to resort and do another 2 near docks and hotel
Have considered using hoverboard, not sure it's worth it.
Anybody has a better way ?
Will a more expensive jetpack make a big difference ?
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I never experimented with different starting points.
Start just north of the resort and proceed counter-clockwise.
The western side of the resort has the Horga'hn too sparsely placed.
No need to beam back to the resort to finish, just hail the contact and then swap toon.
that is exactly how i do it too...and many more, since those 10 horgan spawns are allways crowded.
3 toons is absolutely doable...but 4 i'm not so sure. maybe 4 would be possible if all had superior floaters.
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That's my pattern too. I have time to beam back to the resort and bank my favors before switching, though one of my alts is using a superior floater. You see lots of people following that route.
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I run it pretty much in reverse to you, I start at 10 then power into the crater for 8, then over the lip for 7, after 1 it's a choice of south to the one in the jungle, or south east to the one on the arch.
A good clean run takes me roughly 4 minutes, with the tribble I can knock a good 20 - 30 seconds off that time.
I'm using this route: http://imgur.com/2VKCyNJ
If you're inside the resort, start at 1; if you're at the promenade, start at 3. For extra timesaving, place your characters at the starting point just before the hunt; and after you've collected the 10th Horga'hn, use the appearing interact button to call the guy and collect the rewards, then switch to the next character.
If you need help with orientation, your tricorder (press 'V' key) will point to the nearest Horga'hn.
Yep, this is the way to do it. I start at the point just to the left of the resort though. I can do it on 4 doing it this way.
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One thing I do to save (literally) a few seconds on each run is after I grab the 10th Horga'hn, I switch characters. I found out last year by accident that you can call in the mission even after the hunt has ended and still get the reward and every little bit helps.
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Take a standard white coloured tribble, buy some risian food ( available from the vendor on the board walk or rep store event window ), leave the tribble an food in your inventory for about an hour, then hey presto! Risa tribble.
My skills piloting a floater is limiting me to just 2 toons.
If you're having trouble flying them, push B to go into shooter mode. You can then fly your jetpack with your mouse just by pointing where you want to go.
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My character Tsin'xing
Thanks for the tips.
I'll try 'em out when I get a chance. It would be nice to collect 200 favors in an hour rather than just 150. I only do the idol hunt and the dance at the moment.
Then get better floaters. Don't listen to those on here who claim you can do it with the standard floater, you can't and they are lying to you for what ever reason. You need at least the enhanced floater for 500
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Thanks. I hope they are not bound like the winter Tribbles. That was just crazy.
By the way, no matter which jetpack you are using, if you aim the view slightly downward, and hold the button that makes it boost straight upward, it will increase your forward speed slightly, just like flying in space in A Step Between Stars. With this, I can use the pack that cost 50, and start both the statue hunt and Flying High, and finish both with plenty of time on the Flying High mission.
And for the record, it's not easy...
One of my favorite tricks is to rotate to face the next horgahn, while collecting a horgahn. moving forward/back, or up will break the interact but rotating in place does not.
My character Tsin'xing
I can do 3 runs within the time limit and doubt that I could get to 4 without buying the fastest floater, which doesn't seem like a good investment, so wondered how to squeeze a little more out of runs.
Last year I ground the hell out of the hunt looking for eggs, so each day I could be doing it 6 times an hour for three or four hours, that way I either found eggs for my toons or had enough favors to buy them. Doing it that often meant the paths and locations became ingrained, to the point I could run them with out thinking, even my first run this year was just over the 4 minute mark, and that's despite crashing into two big bloody trees that weren't there last year (gives Taco a suspicious look), it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything
It's random, it can be anywhere between 2 and 5 favors, a bad run gets you 20 + 25 from the mission, a pure jammy git run will get you 50 + 25, I usually get between 20 to 30 a run.
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I have done this will the rental floater. I really don't want to was 50 favors to get the standard floater for each toon. I see it as a waste of inventory space and ECs. I would need 150 favors to get the standard floater for all three toons. Assuming each favor can be sold for 15,000 ECs, that works out 2.25 million ECs. At a rental cost of 1,000 ECs that means I can rent a floater 2,250 times.
Assuming I do the Risian hunt event 4 times per day per toon and doing the daily mission for each toon, I will be renting a floater 16 times per day. The event runs for a total of 42 days. That means I would be spending a total 672,000 ECs on the floaters for the entire event. Net that against the 2.25 million ECs for selling the 150 favors means I end up making 1.578 million ECs by selling the favors.
1.578 million ECs spread across 3 toons is not much money. But neither is spreading 15k ECs per day amongst the 3 toons; at least I do not feel that I am wasting an inventory slot.
Favor prices fluctuates. Last night I saw it between 13k - 15k. I was able to sell favors for an even 15k per favor last night. Additionally, using the 50 favors to either buy a standard floater / sell them on the Exchange is a one shot deal. I made that decision on the first day of the event. I am only using 15k per favor because the was the effective price last night.
Since you played the winter event, do favor prices spike up a bit towards the end of the event? I assume prices would increase as people are scrambling to get all the favors they need for whatever they wanna buy before the event ends. I am considering buying a bunch of favors as prices dip down so I can sell 'em for a profit at the end of the event.
Unfortunately... they are bound to character.
There are two different sets of locations for horga'hns, so they may not always match what's on solemkof's map.
Since I can't make three full runs, I log out the third character before the event ends so the mission doesn't get dropped. If I don't use that character again before the next time the event runs, they will still have the mission. So I just pick up where I left off, and complete the previous run, and get the bonus. In fact, that character will be able to immediately get the mission again, so I can get in two runs on that character.