Missions

[LordDarkHelmet]

Find Puma poop should be a red mission not a green mission because Puma don't poop in this game i spent 3 hrs following multiple tracks of puma's and nothing .

[Jack Schitt]

Are you sure you've posted on the correct game's forums? These are thehunter: Classic forums. There is no color coding to the missions and Puma's surely do leave droppings along their tracks.

[**********]

Like everything, things sometimes seem to happen just because you have a mission to find the thing that would normally be an easy task. You'll probably find that when you eventually do find the mythical puma poo to complete the mission that pumas suddenly start pooing at the normal rate. Either spawn mash or run and spook one and keep it running until it lays the golden 100-200 gm$ eggs. Sometimes the third of fourth spawn is nicer than the first few when what should be an easy task turns into a frustrating mission from hell.

[Pete Gaimari]

Good example of why I prefer to spend my own money than do missions.

[Hylie Pistof]

its about daily missions, the OP should have mentioned that. those are colored in green blue red.

however, the color code means not all too much, bc all spawns ingame are random!

you can complete a medium or hard mission much faster then a easy one, if youre lucky. but that does not guarantee an easy one to be finnished in a few minutes ^^

i also had the pleasure to search for hours to complete a easy one :/ although the next day i was quite fast with a medium or hard mission.

sry, Lord. you will have to keep on searching, maybe somewhere else or restart. its just bad luck, the Puma is there and it does drop that stuff your looking for XD

Originally posted by OldMtnMan:

Good example of why I prefer to spend my own money than do missions.

nothing to do with spending money or not, its a game challenge/mechanic! part of the long time motivation that many other games miss.

and if you do them, they reward you with some things you can not buy ^^
although to me, the .17 was the most valuable XD i already have a .300 and the skin is fine but changes nothing.

and the only camo item is the tropical cap, that doesnt show an effect on the huntermate. no matter if i ask here or in the official forum, even a bug report was kindly ignored.

[Pete Gaimari]

The comps are enough challenge and I can choose the ones that apply to my way of hunting. Plus, they pay ems.

[Hylie Pistof]

the hard dailys also pay Em$ XD this is still a game, its not all about money ^^

with challenge i mean, something to do. people often need a reason to play. sandbox games where you set your own goals are not common anymore.

competitions are fine, if youre into it - just another mechanic to keep people buisy.

im not fond of them, so i choose the map from the daily and then roam along. enough open missions to make it worthwhile, money and goal wise.

i do the same in Elderscrolls Online - daily missions. keeps me buisy and i have a chance of looting something rare. you can do many with other people, its fun and you meet some nice people ingame too ;)

[Pete Gaimari]

That's funny when you say it's not about money. Have you forgotten what you've written in the past?

I'm the one who can say that. I don't try to win the comps. I don't want the trophy's. I just enjoy competing. My goal is to come in 4th. I find that harder to judge than winning.

I've spent over $1000 of my money in Classic. Much more in DCS and iRacing so i'm not playing for money. I worked for money and now I can spend it.

[Hylie Pistof]

you may not play FOR money, but WITH ^^

i never said that its my goal to make money - i always just refered to the topic in those posts.

they want to buy stuff, and claim this game is a money pit = pay to win, or an endless grind to get a simple gun (or anything else) - thats why i say so much about mission ;)

its also because the people ignore mechanics the devs have build in. they dont inform themselfs in forums or the internet in general.

so i try to help them in explaining that it is possible.

you have decided to pay for it, your choice!

not everyone can do that (sadly, that is NOT a joke ^^ NOT funny, thats the reality for most of the humans on this planet).

i assume my english is not good enough to express myself, thats why you get me wrong so often, i apologise.

i just try to help the other players, not to get confused by your decided way to play and pay!

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Originally posted by Anar Kay:

the hard dailys also pay Em$ XD

The em$ payout is only for the first run of that mission. If you complete the first hard mission on day 16 you get the em$ for that mission. If you have to restart your streak for any reason you wont get an em$ payout for day 16 hard mission, but you will for day 32. You still get the gm$, but the em$ are a one time payment.

[Pete Gaimari]

Originally posted by Anar Kay:

you may not play FOR money, but WITH ^^

i never said that its my goal to make money - i always just refered to the topic in those posts.

they want to buy stuff, and claim this game is a money pit = pay to win, or an endless grind to get a simple gun (or anything else) - thats why i say so much about mission ;)

its also because the people ignore mechanics the devs have build in. they dont inform themselfs in forums or the internet in general.

so i try to help them in explaining that it is possible.

you have decided to pay for it, your choice!

not everyone can do that (sadly, that is NOT a joke ^^ NOT funny, thats the reality for most of the humans on this planet).

i assume my english is not good enough to express myself, thats why you get me wrong so often, i apologise.

i just try to help the other players, not to get confused by your decided way to play and pay!

It's all good. No problem.

[Hylie Pistof]

[LordDarkHelmet]

How did finding poop turn into spending money? lol , FYI found the poop , decided to lure in multiple then kill them and found it easier that way lol. Didn't have to pay for puma poop finder 9000.

[Jack Schitt]

For future reference all animals leave droppings as they travel. Something like every 5th track or so will be poo.

[RoadAquila]

I know this is not exactly what the OP asked for, but because it kinda turned into it, here it goes:

I like doing missions, not just for gm$ or even em$ in case of special events, but because they also test your skills. Some missions are actually hard to accomplish and in the case of event missions when it is required to hunt a specific kind of animal that has a certain score for example, you actually have to put all your skills and knowledge up to it, 'cause high scoring animals are actually harder to catch and find. Maybe I'm mistaking, but as far as I've noticed animals that are above a certain score are more cautious and spook more easily. For example, if you come close to a low scoring brown bear, it is likely he won't run and try to attack, but a high scoring one will give you one hell of a run.

For me what most actually call it "grind" it's actually a challenge. Sure there are easy missions, but as you progress they get harder, and that's where the real gm$ come from. Sure some ending missions are actually trivial, but meanwhile you would most likely have to complete something hard, like shooting a water buffalo with a revolver and it has to be done in a single hit, taking down a bobcat while it's fleeing etc.

Of course there is the possibility I really suck, and what I find a challenge for others is mostly grind and fairly easy. But somehow I doubt those mission packs were designed to be a walk in a park, even if you're the supreme hunter.

Cheers.

EDIT: As for what the OP asked, when you're looking for droppings a way to do it, is that when you find a track from that specific animal study it if it's a fresh one or old. If it's fresh, or you found the track quickly since you've started the game try to go backwards, if it's old and you've been searching for a while than going in any direction should eventually give you poop ;). Note that if you spooked the animal he won't poop until he regains its usual state. In this case it's also recommended to search backwards, if it started fleeing.

[Jack Schitt]

I do missions for gm$ to buy gear.

We don't have to follow tracks backwards to find droppings. If we follow the direction the animal went we'll find droppings at some point. When we find a lot of tracks in a small area some of those tracks will be droppings.