Transponder Nodes Dangerously Useless And Overpriced

[Saucy Angel]

Why do I need to spend 70 electronics on a tracker when the nodes will disappear after like 6 hours? I could have made an auto turret with that. Now my lvl 210 Anky is missing and the transponder node has stopped working. I only expected it to do what it was designed to do and got burnt. Bad.

[Lucifer]

They don't disappear, i have a node on my quetz that is like 2 months old already. Check your transponder frequency?

[Why Watt]

Well... Thank goodness I nevr made one of those.

[Saucy Angel]

Transponder frequency...? I'll... Look into that.

[Saucy Angel]

I read that I should have recieved a prompt for the frequency but I never did.

[warwisard]

You won't recive a prompt for the freq. To set the freq you need to hit "N" (comp default key) to bring up the freq selection. Otherwise it will be what ever the default freq is (I think it is 70 but don't quote me on that).

[Saucy Angel]

I never changed the frequency and when I looked it was on 70. Don't know why it stopped working.

[Saucy Angel]

Just any negative nancy can walk up to my dinos and remove them? I think maybe it could have bugged out when i unclaimed it to switch tribes.

[spiket31]

it could have gotten in a fight and had it destroyed i believe

[Saucy Angel]

That's a horrible mechanic imo.. but whatever.

[Morticielle]

Originally posted by Saucy Angel:

Why do I need to spend 70 electronics on a tracker when the nodes will disappear after like 6 hours?

They don't disappear.

If you put those thingies beneath the saddle, nobody can temper with them.

[Tanya]

Owners can remove them. You hold down E on a dino with it and it says Destroy Transponder.

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[SgtSausagepants]

Don't they just stop displaying after a while, even though they are active?

[Ragtatter]

I believe they have a range to them. You have to be close enough to pick up the signal, and you have to be on the correct frequency.