The thing with coins and fossils

[TheSeigneur1]

Hi, its me again!

Maybe I do things wrong, but after completing the Collectors Role, was hunting for the trophy buckles, and seems I need to sell tons of sets.

Whch is easy with every kind of collectable, except coins and fossils.

Problem is: I can not complete my sets. I man, barely ever. I also HATE snow, so spending time in Colter is almost physical pain for me. Different story.

So, I have to keep selling my duplicates to Madame Nazar, because I end up with 14 of 15 coins, 6 of 7 fossil sets... and I can not finish the sets because the randomised map gives me doubles and doubles and doubles. Even when I have spent a ridiculously long time to get all coins on the map, still I miss the 15th.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Don't use the Nazar Maps that you can buy. Use the Nazar Online Collectors Map and within a single session try going and digging each available location spot for what you need and hopefully you will find that last item that completes the set. But yes the fossils and coins are the hardest due to random item roll of the dice but also the larger pay outs for complete sets.

Make a private session if you feel the need, so you know other players won't ruin your fun

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by TheSeigneur1:

Am I doing something wrong?

You're not Hunting for Cripps in the Trader Role.

Collector, to me: is like Working for Algernon Wasp 24/7/365.
I like Algernon, and Madam Bizarre is soooo easy to look at, but I'm glad when Algernon's work is done. The problem is Madam Bizarre's work is NEVER done.

Use the super-duper map:
https://jeanropke.github.io/RDR2CollectorsMap/

Be a Trader First and Part Time Collector.
When they randomized the Collector Items - they tanked the role, unless you LOVE working for Algernon Full Time.

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Originally posted by TheSeigneur1:

Hi, its me again!

Maybe I do things wrong, but after completing the Collectors Role, was hunting for the trophy buckles, and seems I need to sell tons of sets.

Whch is easy with every kind of collectable, except coins and fossils.

Problem is: I can not complete my sets. I man, barely ever. I also HATE snow, so spending time in Colter is almost physical pain for me. Different story.

So, I have to keep selling my duplicates to Madame Nazar, because I end up with 14 of 15 coins, 6 of 7 fossil sets... and I can not finish the sets because the randomised map gives me doubles and doubles and doubles. Even when I have spent a ridiculously long time to get all coins on the map, still I miss the 15th.

Am I doing something wrong?

You are not doing anything wrong, Its just Rockstar that troll's when ever possible.
It used to be so the coins was in set locations with no doubles and the collection was easy to gain all. but...Rockstar being rockstar had to make changes.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes, collector can tie up way too much time. Do it as something secondary side stuff. Not something to focus all your attention on. Doing Trading for Cripps and doing Hard or Lengedary Bouties is what makes quick cash. FYI when you view a Bounty Board, go to wanted poster on far right, then press up. This should reveal an extra poster. That is the ones Rockstar deems as "Hard" where as the first 3 posters on the board are "easy or medium" in comparison.

Course sometimes even the hard one, is not all that hard. But R* tends to give $ and RP bonus for the hard and legendary ones.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Course sometimes even the hard one, is not all that hard. But R* tends to give $ and RP bonus for the hard and legendary ones.

Bounty Double Payout Month is ending? Is that right?

Hope that rolls around to Trader again. I got in during that and the money was just stupid easy. I pigged out, Man...lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It should be ending but I'm not sure when. Due to the issues at hand that Rockstar needs to address. Unless they create some better events and add content, I don't see the point of month long stuff. Unless that's their way of being lazy. Then you have the Amazon Prime stuff for Aug. But that usually does not change until around the 7th

But even with an ongoing rdo or service problem, it's quite easy for them to make changes to featured playlist and those types of events. Double or Triple rewards is a simple on/off switch for them to do.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes, collector can tie up way too much time. Do it as something secondary side stuff.

I bought Collector for:
The Saddle and The Saddlebag (7 Outfits - WoooHoo).

I ranked it all the up by doing - nothing special:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841635192

Hunting both animals and plants I spend a lot of time in Eagle Eye. When something was near - I picked it up. That's about all the effort I put into it. I ranked up at least a level each day for doing nothing much.

I do like watching her dance tho.

;)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by JuiceWSA:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Yes, collector can tie up way too much time. Do it as something secondary side stuff.

I bought Collector for:
The Saddle and The Saddlebag (7 Outfits - WoooHoo).

I ranked it all the up by doing - nothing special:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2841635192

Hunting both animals and plants I spend a lot of time in Eagle Eye. When something was near - I picked it up. That's about all the effort I put into it. I ranked up at least a level each day for doing nothing much.

I do like watching her dance tho.

;)

Wow you don't have Moonshiner or Bounty Hunter; your really missing out for sure.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Wow you don't have Moonshiner or Bounty Hunter; your really missing out for sure.

No... I stay busy, am not in a hurry, I'm kinda old and can't sit here for longer than 3 hours. It's all I can do to keep Cripps working efficiently and get those goods to market when they need to go.

If I start doing something else Cripps will be sat on his ass all day and we ain't havin' any of that!

:D

I'll get around to Moonshiner one of these days.
Bounty Hunter too.

I haven't done any more story missions than the 3 needed to open up the game.
Much like Story Mode - there's no rush, is there?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes but you can do all of those within a similar window of time. Such as start a Moonshine batch, then flavor it for high payout. If you do a 3 star flavor for a client, this batch takes roughly 40-45 min real time to complete. Then while that is in the works, go deliver a trade wagon that's at least 50 or more items, depending on timing, stock, supplies, etc. Then once that is done go to Fence and Butcher if I need anything or to sell anything. Then go sell the batch of Moonshine.

In between Trade wagon and Moonshine deliveries I can also go complete a Bounty or two.

Only time I visit Harriet is when I need alot more sedative ammo. Sure you can craft it but Poppy is not easy to come by. Or maybe if I see she has a Mission to sample a Legendary that I might need or never done before.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Neru:

That's what I've been doing, exactly. Until the NPCs and animals just frickin' "poof", then I lost interest xd

This does cure that problem instantly, is easy to do - and easy to get rid of, also in an instant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFd2af8wINE

When you KNOW the session you're in won't have any griefers or hackers in it there is a certain charm about it - until you realize you kinda miss the griefers and hackers...lol

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Originally posted by TheSeigneur1:

...Am I doing something wrong?

Nope. It's been patched to randomize higher value sets since people were aBuSiNg it too much. My guy out here flashing his 20 thousand dollars like it's a major deal when collectors are clearly are (and have been for a long time) into the millions of dollars and beyond.

I got 4k hours in RDO and i'll say between collector and trader, i played collector 60% to trader 40%. Trader just keeps you topped up, same as moonshiner. All the fast travelling required eats into your earnings, while collector outweighs trader by miles due to the ability to sell individual items as well as sets, and is why they nerfed tf out of the role in general. "Oh no! An online loot map! How did we not think of such an eventuality when we made designed the role!?" /s Their penchant for being ballbusters knows no bounds.

I played for weeks collecting all 265 items across the map, so that includes the snow too. My arrowheads and coins are still at tier 3 but my fossils are at tier 8, just through perseverance of hunting them. From what i've noticed, certain daily cycles will replenish lower amounts of collectibles you have in your satchel. It's still random, but certain days seem to offer lower % drops than other more obvious ones, such as rough arrowheads or bivalve fossils. I can't seem to sell those fast enough since their loot pool is much higher.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Maybe just me but I hardly use Fast Travel. Usually only time I do is when I need to go out to the far west and back again over to the far east. Otherwise I hardly use it.

[JuiceWSA]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Maybe just me but I hardly use Fast Travel. Usually only time I do is when I need to go out to the far west and back again over to the far east. Otherwise I hardly use it.

Me either, but I'm using it today. Solo. It's Treasure Hunting Day. I have a glut of Maps and FFFFFFFF has forced me to go get them... darn.

;)

BTW: My paltry $20K means I don't even notice the cost of Fast Travel. I think I can afford it.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

True, what's a few $ a day when you have over 5-10K $

If you keep getting this errors in public sessions, use the private session startup.meta trick

Also that has helped me because I don't get delays in the R* "processing transaction" thing when I sell a ton of stuff to various NPC stores like Butcher and Doctor. In public sessions it seems like after I quickly sell around 20 loose items I then have to wait like 30 secs or some BS for each transaction to complete.

I think I'm done with the Doctor though as I completed the thing where you sell 1000 items to Doctor 10 times. Should have me a good pay day soon as I can get back on RDO, as I just completed each of the Collector sets but have yet to cash them in as I was busy trying to grab stuff quick to fill up 100 item trade wagon. After that my Moonshine wagon should be ready.