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« on: June 11, 2019, 03:24:23 PM »
In the end I finished the quest. There were about 10 tracks total, none even remotly visible from zoom in location and I basically stumbled on the due to sheer luck. I employed a strategy that I zoomed in on each tile and walked few steps in each direction. Then zoomed out and moved to another tile. Here I had to move a lot as there was goshawk hunting a grouse right next to me. And due to heavy rain I nearly missed it anyway as there were so few tracks (many hidden visually behind trees).
All the tracks were old so I burned twigs on each of them and in area 3*3 around them just to be extra sure. The cow appeared.
But I still feel the quest could have been done much better, and if I ever get this quest offered I will just decline it. If there would be some better way how to find the animal then maybe it would be fun, but now it was a chore. Bad unrewarding and tiring chore that took me several hours to complete and in the end I was just lucky.
Proposal to Sami: What if there was another ritual to help you locate the spot better? I have a small idea. You could set a 3*3 tile of branches (inner tile could have different compostion then outer, so the game knows how to recognize it, even some a bit more rare resource could be used as part of the burning.) And after you light the inner tile the fire would spread in only one direction, direction where the animal is. This would give you general idea and you would have to repeat it few times on different spots. But it would feel much more in hands of the player.