When I hit Botany r25 and could start to do leves in Nophica, I started making notes of all the normal trees i could find, as the SP per log was better than grade 3 in Horizon and without the r28 scan skill I would have to work on memory to find trees.
So I started making dots on a map in Paint. I had Triangulate so I could work out if trees were N/S/E/W of me and was able to identify that there were 4 trees in total. At first I thought that each tree had 3-4 spots where it could spawn in, so I started drawing lines from each tree to another if they co-existed at the same time. This would help so I could know what tree I was chopping and what items it dropped.
As time went on, I kept finding new nodes and my original estimation went from 3-4 to 6-7 to 9, then finally settled on 10 spawns per tree. I hope there isn't 11. I have nightmares about finding an 11th spawn :(
Griding through rank 25-32 I am now happy to announce that I have found all 40 spawns of trees in Nophica as follows
Each tree is colour coded and numbered. At some point I figured that my picture with all the lines was getting too cluttered, so I created a spreadsheet to record all the instances of Co-existance between trees. I also compiled information on the drops I got from the trees as suplementary evidence of which spawns belonged to which tree (the numbers after the drop is the sweet spot for reference). I haven't got 100% of co-existance mapped or 100% of drops confirmed, but I am quite happy to conclude that my trees are correct and each tree of each family drops the same items.
The current map of Nophicas Wells only has 7 Tree nodes on it co-ords marked in blue on my spreadsheet (one of which is wrong I think it is supposed to be point 14 - coords marked in red), so I went through and worked out the Map Grid and the Dol map coordinates of each tree so they can be uploaded.
https://spreadsheets.goo...mp;gid=0&output=htmlMy spreadsheet also shows harvesting and Leve points, but I haven't fully catalogued those.
I really enjoyed doing this, all the mapping and cross referencing is so my thing. Plus as I was so focused on finding that last darn trees, I didn't really pay attention to the sp I was getting and got quite a few ranks without really noticing the grind. So I am going to head over to Cedarwood and Humblehearth and do the same thing. When I am done, I will probably be at a rank that I can take on Grade 5 mapping :P
Edited by user Saturday, March 12, 2011 11:23:21 PM(UTC)
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