Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: A Pretty Good Tank
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ArthurDentOnBria
Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:17 am
#1
On TC this weekend, while other people were playing with frogs, Lammergeier and I were working on something more important 
TC got rolled back this morning, but I'm guessing he'll have one of these "for real" pretty shortly
LloydPickering
Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:34 am
#3
Hmmm. 18/12/6k HAM and Medium armor...
Thats a nice pet. Is this the Combat Test server or normal TC? If normal TC, was there a bug that allowed u to get Fortitude high enough for AR2, or is it one of the changes in 12.1?
I'm a little confuzzled as to how this *EVIL* monstrosity can exist, let alone be only cl65...
Inkanissen
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:05 am
#4
W O W !!!!
Hope stuff like this makes it to live, would be a blast to play around with such DNA and creatures!
Hope stuff like this makes it to live, would be a blast to play around with such DNA and creatures!
ArthurDentOnBria
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:35 am
#6
Lammergeier had some Ancient Bull Rancor dna that he let me play with 
One thing I think that this shows, is that if the dna sampling cap were removed, this is the kind of creature we'd be making for master creature handlers. Probably even better than this, since this was my first attempt as I didn't have much time to do it 
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 01-25-2005 08:37 AM
jedikiller1980
Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:44 pm
#9
did you get the Ancient Bull Rancor dna durning this week end or was it extremly old dna if you got it this weekend thani guess i be going after them next awsome pet!!!!!!!!
Kitoth
Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:54 pm
#10
While that's great and all.... it appears to be moot, since ancient bulls are no longerable to be sampled, correct? No ancient bull DNA, no superpet.
Aleskander
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:46 pm
#11
They took the cap off sampling?!? This would help make CH worth having again....maybe the pet sales will go up and make it worth the time to actually make pets.
ArthurDentOnBria
Tue Jan 25, 2005 2:46 pm
#12
Ok, I've teased you guys enough
Here is where the dna came from. Lammergeier collected it some time back, and this weekend with the rollback, asked for my help in running some tests, knowing full well that whatever we do, for better offor worse, it wouldbe wiped out. Thegoal though being to try to create a callable medium-armored pet.
It wasn't done as a "neener neener" kind of thing, but more just as a test to see if the crafting system supported such a thing or not. There are some very very wierd things that happen in crafting with dna that high. When I get a chance, I'll post some stats to demonstrate what I'm talking about. It also gives a good opportunity to test some of the formulas that we haven't revisited in a while. Also, now that we know what one possible master level ch pet might look like given virtually unlimited sampling abilities, it gives us a chance to discuss one of our top items, which was the whole issue about increased high end critters, and removing the sampling cap. I'm anxious to know how people feel about that now.
LloydPickering
Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:18 pm
#13
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:
Ok, I've teased you guys enough
Here is where the dna came from. Lammergeier collected it some time back, and this weekend with the rollback, asked for my help in running some tests, knowing full well that whatever we do, for better offor worse, it wouldbe wiped out. Thegoal though being to try to create a callable medium-armored pet.
It wasn't done as a "neener neener" kind of thing, but more just as a test to see if the crafting system supported such a thing or not. There are some very very wierd things that happen in crafting with dna that high. When I get a chance, I'll post some stats to demonstrate what I'm talking about. It also gives a good opportunity to test some of the formulas that we haven't revisited in a while. Also, now that we know what one possible master level ch pet might look like given virtually unlimited sampling abilities, it gives us a chance to discuss one of our top items, which was the whole issue about increased high end critters, and removing the sampling cap. I'm anxious to know how people feel about that now.
Personally I don't think there should be a cap on sampleable pets. In the end, any results over cl70 will not be callable, so there is a validity check there already.
Under the current combat system, an AR2 pet would be more likely to balance the CH profession than unbalance it, so I don't see what the problem is. After the CU this would be an issue, but no doubt they are considering the balance of CHanyway.
I also would like it a little easier to sample from higher end creatures, I mean come on guys, a Master failing to get a sample 9/10 times on a Mutant Rancosr then killing it in 1 sample?
At the lower end of the scale, the grind is ridiculously long winded as u fail I think it's 50% of the time on yard trash.
Sampling success and creature levesare waywrong.
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