Bio Engineer Archive

Not questioning the knowledge of the devs or anything but why the heck did all the meat in the same group(herbivore, carnivore, insect) suddenly become different? This has already made crafting on this bugged profession bad enough, do you think that when/if they fix the factories that we'll be able to posses enough of one "certain" kind of meat to produce a viable stack? Geez, I mean fix things that are broke, not break the only thing that's keeping me going.

Uhm whats your problem there?
I usualy have stacks of several thousand meat of the same type.

Meat hides and probably bones (haven't checked) are like any other resource and subject to change. Otherwise we'd be locked into having really crappy stuff on one planet forever if that's the way it was randomly assigned at the start.

i'm not complaining , i just amasses a nice stok of meat ( over 6k) of check this out,

Flavor 968

PE 986

QL 1000

yup and its all for me !!!

And with that awesome meat you can make....drumroll....THE SAME THING ANYONE ELSE MAKES WITH CRAP MEAT! Until it's fixed there's no need to even bother with "good" meat vs "bad" meat. The poseter is talking about how you can kill the same animals repeatedly and end up with 10 stacks of 5 meat...that doesn't help because when you're done combining you end up with odd numbered peices of meat taht just need to be destroyed beacuse they take up space and can't be mixed in a template.

He's right, you end up with 5 different stacks of 12 pieces or so, each of them worthless because you can't stack them. Bone you can stack from just about any animal that doesn't rank as a bird. I've killed a whole group of the same creature and took meat off everyone one of them, guess what...every one gave a different type of meat in the same catagory. If one thing is going to stack, make them all. If not, then at least have the intelligence to make stuff that comes from the same critters stack right. Laters peeps.

Gene Splicer

BE/CH/Medic

Well if you look at the meats, you will notice the different qualities that male the stacks different. bones from other planets dont stack same reason

I hardly ever see chefs....so whats the meat for? making the creatures? (im not yet a BE...hopefully tommorow if i can grind myself through 13,000 medicine crafting xp, shouldnt take more than an hour or so.

well meat from creatures of the same name do stack. It looks as if the harvesting system has reverted to what it was several weeks before the end of beta where every single creature gave a different resource (creatures of the same exact name, not species give the same resource). For the time being you should just kill things of the same name for your meat. Oh and the good meat i got will be usefull, it will go in my house untill they fix the creature and tissue crafting system allong with the thousands more i will get in the coming days.

oh and i forgot that i would rather have it the way it has reverted to. with the way you have known since playing the released version if a planet had cruddy meat or hide of a certain type (and alot of our stuff requires specific resources) you would have to hop all around planets looking for something. Now you can just kill random creatures that give that type of meat untill you get good stuff and then just remember the name of the creature that you killed. You can then run and get a mission for that type and harvest the creatures of that name. Is it harder to get large stocks to grink off of? Absolutly yes. Is it easier to find high quality stuff to make things from, ABSOLUTLY!!!!!.

If meats have different stats on them will we be able to mix and match them when cloning? I mean if I hav 13 herbivore meat that have nice stats and 2 herbivore meat with crappy stats will i be able to combine the 2 stacks to create a creature even though they have different stats? If not this change is gonna do even more to kill our profession.

This change was made way back in beta, nothing new. And I have several stacks of hundreds of the same kind of meat and two stacks of over 3K. BEs have a ton of game-breaking issues but this is certainly not one of them.

Scorus

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Orochimaru wrote:
well meat from creatures of the same name do stack. It looks as if the harvesting system has reverted to what it was several weeks before the end of beta where every single creature gave a different resource (creatures of the same exact name, not species give the same resource). For the time being you should just kill things of the same name for your meat. Oh and the good meat i got will be usefull, it will go in my house untill they fix the creature and tissue crafting system allong with the thousands more i will get in the coming days.

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Not always true. I have killed a nest of 10 durnis and gotten 4 different wooly hides and 3 different herbivore meats from them. It seems sporadic. Usually it works as expected (1 type of each hide/meat/whatever per planet) but sometimes every other harvest will give you a new type. It's highly annoying when you're trying to gather 550 bones and 500 various skins for chitin armor.