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tardes13tardes13 Member Posts: 167 Arc User
edited July 2014 in The Academy
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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  • damix4damix4 Member Posts: 609 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You can do it faster with Superior floater and Lohlunat Tribble activated (gives you bonus +5 flight speed and + 0.05 inertia for 1 hour).

    I never experimented with different starting points.
  • mav75mav75 Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You can do 2 with the cheapest floaters, you could do 3 if the mission wasn't bugged and end 1 minute too early.

    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.
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    mav75 wrote: »
    You can do 2 with the cheapest floaters, you could do 3 if the mission wasn't bugged and end 1 minute too early.

    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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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Also... you get something for your trouble even if the mission ends while you're still hunting. Not the reward, but whatever you find at the Horgahn spots.
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  • ssargonssargon Member Posts: 347 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    4 is definitely possible if you're used to the course and have good floaters. It also helps to look at your map; each location has 2 spawn points, and whichever the Horgahn spawned in will be marked on your map. Saves a bit of time if you're already flying in that direction and know exactly where to land.
  • themartianthemartian Member Posts: 247 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    mav75 wrote: »
    You can do 2 with the cheapest floaters, you could do 3 if the mission wasn't bugged and end 1 minute too early.

    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'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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  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    You can run three with the 50 favor floater, but you can't have too many mistakes otherwise you run out of time thanks to the bug, if you also use the tribble then you can do it even quicker.

    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.
  • solemkofsolemkof Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    tardes13 wrote: »
    Wondering what's the quickest way to do it, anybody can do it on 2-3 toons per run ?
    I'm completing it on 3 characters with about 2 min. left on the timer. They use only the standard floater (50 favors) and Lohlunat tribble (risian food for either 5 favors or a few k EC on the exchange).

    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.
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    mav75 wrote: »
    You can do 2 with the cheapest floaters, you could do 3 if the mission wasn't bugged and end 1 minute too early.

    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.

    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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  • iamynaughtiamynaught Member Posts: 1,285 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    I take a very similar route and I can get 5 characters through easy enough and have roughly 2 minutes left for a 6th. If not for the bug, I'd actually consider giving a 6th character a shot, but since the bug *is* here, I don't bother. Maybe when (if?) it gets fixed I'll try it then.

    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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  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    This is my first year doing this. Where do you get the Tribble? I can't find it in the C-Store.
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    razar2380 wrote: »
    This is my first year doing this. Where do you get the Tribble? I can't find it in the C-Store.

    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.
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    solemkof wrote: »
    I'm completing it on 3 characters with about 2 min. left on the timer. They use only the standard floater (50 favors) and Lohlunat tribble (risian food for either 5 favors or a few k EC on the exchange).


    My skills piloting a floater is limiting me to just 2 toons.


    :(
  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    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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  • solemkofsolemkof Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    My skills piloting a floater is limiting me to just 2 toons.


    :(
    some things that might help:
    • switch to shooter-mode, then you'll control direction by pointing with the mouse (close the inventory window because that auto-switches to rpg-mode)
    • go to your settings and set a key for autowalk in shooter-mode (in rpg-mode it's R but that has a different function in shooter-mode) [you don't need this, but I find it easier when I don't have to constantly press W]
    • make sure that your final approach to a target is a straight line, do not change direction and just hold S until you've stopped [needs some practice to find when to press S]
    • to get over high obstacles, press spacebar for rapid vertical climb
    • if you've flown too high, either point down and go forward (W or autowalk-key) or take your floater off (there is no death on Risa no matter how deep the fall)
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    mav75 wrote: »
    You can do 2 with the cheapest floaters, you could do 3 if the mission wasn't bugged and end 1 minute too early.
    If I don't mess up, I can get three runs with basic floaters. But I have the points committed to memory so thoroughly I don't need to look at the map. :P It IS somewhat challenging to do 3 runs but I can do that and have a minute left over sometimes.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    solemkof wrote: »
    some things that might help:
    • switch to shooter-mode, then you'll control direction by pointing with the mouse (close the inventory window because that auto-switches to rpg-mode)
    • go to your settings and set a key for autowalk in shooter-mode (in rpg-mode it's R but that has a different function in shooter-mode) [you don't need this, but I find it easier when I don't have to constantly press W]
    • make sure that your final approach to a target is a straight line, do not change direction and just hold S until you've stopped [needs some practice to find when to press S]
    • to get over high obstacles, press spacebar for rapid vertical climb
    • if you've flown too high, either point down and go forward (W or autowalk-key) or take your floater off (there is no death on Risa no matter how deep the fall)

    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.
  • comtedeloach2comtedeloach2 Member Posts: 499 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    My skills piloting a floater is limiting me to just 2 toons.


    :(

    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
  • cmdrscarletcmdrscarlet Member Posts: 5,137 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    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.

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  • razar2380razar2380 Member Posts: 1,187 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    z3ndor99 wrote: »
    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.

    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.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    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
    Huh? I can do 3 runs in 13-14 minutes on basic floaters. could I do more with better floaters? undoubtedly, but that doesn't change what I can do.

    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.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    I get 3 in the time limit using standard floaters + tribbles. Start behind the hotel, then east for the one on the ridgeline, north up the beach, then swing down the river grotto, takes about 4 minutes per cycle. I could probably get 4 if I upgraded floaters, but that would take an extra ~80 cycles just to break even, and I don't plan on doing anywhere near that many.
  • ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
    edited June 2014
    What determines how many token things you get for each statue found?

    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.
  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    The killer is the time it takes to change character, some only lose 30 seconds due to the two change overs, while others can lose a minute or two.

    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 :D.
    ovinspace wrote: »
    What determines how many token things you get for each statue found?
    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.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    bejaymac wrote: »
    The killer is the time it takes to change character, some only lose 30 seconds due to the two change overs, while others can lose a minute or two.

    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 :D.


    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.
    certain parts of the island were redesigned when they added the surfboard race. One in particular that sticks out is an area in the northeast that used to have a lot of trees on it but is mostly a sandbar now. This actually made the hunt a bit easier since I no longer have to fly around trees to reach that spot.
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  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Switching over to Shooter Mode by pressing "B" last night has improved hunt run. I been able to complete it for all my 3 toons 75% of the time. I made 4 attempts to do it for my toons and have successfully completed it for all 3 toon in 3 of the attempts.

    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.
  • ovinspaceovinspace Member Posts: 310
    edited June 2014
    The favor price is coming down, 14k recently from 20k a few days ago, so don't assume 15k or something else you consider a good price to last. Similar happens in with the winter wonderland drops.
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    ovinspace wrote: »
    The favor price is coming down, 14k recently from 20k a few days ago, so don't assume 15k or something else you consider a good price to last. Similar happens in with the winter wonderland drops.

    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.
  • rifter1969rifter1969 Member Posts: 654 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    razar2380 wrote: »
    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.

    Unfortunately... they are bound to character.
  • bberge1701bberge1701 Member Posts: 726 Bug Hunter
    edited June 2014
    I am able to manage about 2.7 runs per event, using standard (50 favor) floaters and lohlunat tribble boosts.

    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.
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