Double Agent oddities

[Byrd]

My Assault static does the Double Agent for Mamook points, and we've probably done it 15 times or so.

The first few times, it was easy, we would always get the guy on the first try within 2 or 3 minutes. Lately, however, it's been getting more and more difficult to pin down. Last night, we had two of the qiqirns tell us west when it was more north. The only qiqirn which told us anything about "close" was actually quite a ways away from the actual spy. We had one qiqirn tell us "153 yalms 'that way,'" but failed to point in whatever direction was "that way." We were able to piece it together to gather a vague idea, but it was rough, and we had a lot of missed guesses.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is the difficulty to this completely random, or does it get harder with each repeated attempt, to the point where it's not even worth doing anymore?

[Avinor]

Sometimes you just get unlucky with hints. The first 2 times we did this assualt though we had the target in the far west, but everyone said east. Or vice versa, its been a while. One theory was the map wrapped around, leading to directions and distances that weren't accurate with the real map. Doesn't happen often, but its really annoying when it does.

[geno]

I can tell you "close" is very different from "very close", and that helped us to solve the assault a couple times. I dont recall the "yalms that way" ever gave a direction, just an idea about how far to look (pretty far, if i recall correctly, 1 yalm = 1 distance on distance plugin? not sure, maybe not). The correct ones will often change their wording depending on how far/direction of the double agent is, so it could say west while the double agent is moving north of it and give you a false sense of direction.

[Septimus]

I've had this problem in the past. I hate that assault, stupid rat-faced liars. >_<

[Sui]

...if i recall correctly, 1 yalm = 1 distance on distance plugin? not sure, maybe not

Yeah, that's right. Ilms are feet, yalms are yards and roughly equivalent to the unit Distance uses, and malms are miles.