Bio Engineer Archive

I'm a master architect and master BE. All I have to say is I hate critting on a complex structure alot more than a high level pet. Sure failing a high level pet sucks, but when I crit on a hard structure I lose alot more money and time. No one in this game can understand crits for architects, I don't care what they say or how they try to compare it. No comparison at all IMO. Just my 2 cents. I can accept the crit fails for dna and pets. Just part of the game. Personally I love going out to get dna now. Even with the deaths. Funnest part of the game IMO. I think this is the best crafting in the game. Other professions just seem boring. This profession is down right exciting. So the crits I just accept as a necessary evil.

Suggestion: Make your combines in a Manufactoring Center type Player cities.

Maybe I have been really really lucky, but I made a ton of combines lately, and had only 2 crit fails in at least 100+ combines in a Player city that's a manufactoring center. My station there is only 32ish too.

Give it a try maybe

My crit fails on combines have been about 1 in 20. But ive failed on experimenting up to 7 times on ONE template. Something just doesnt seem right to me. You'd think a master wouldn't fail so much. I'd almost swear I had better luck when I wasnt a master.

You still get crit fails in manufactoring center cities. Get this: I had two crit fails out of about 20 combines in a manufactoring center city with a 43 qual Food/chem crafter and 14.7 qual tools.

Tell me how THAT's supposed to happen . . .

Tobywan Kenobite

Master BE Bloodfin

I had 29 Bull Rancor samples. I got 4 critical failures in a row. I made one pet successfully with 5 samples, used 2 more successfully in another pet, andthen had another crit while using the final 2. So, I lost 22 of 29 Bull Rancor samples due to critical failures.

A while back I had 2 failures in 3 attempts using Mutant Rancor DNA.

I am a Master BE, by the way.

I agree wholeheartedly ... Crit fails should return the DNA template... crit fails on templates should return the DNA because they are SUCH a pain to get now that we pretty much have to sample from something in the wild to get the DNA.

"I'm a master architect and master BE. All I have to say is I hate critting on a complex structure alot more than a high level pet."

Not me, when I crit on Mutant Rancor DNA that I have spent a day finding it make me turn off this game for about a week. One of these times its gonna push the cancel button for me.

/agree too many of these lately.

I've failed more in the last few weeks than my whole BE carrer (master since a month after launch)

This is sometthingI was thinking of posting about. Crits are reallly gettting out of hand. While I think not getting some kind of penelty on a failure is wrong, a good compromise would be to lower the quality of the DNA one level on a crit rather then complete loss.

As a Master, the only thing reallygetting me to see red with failures is inside of a template. If you fail on an experimentation point, the failure jumps to a non-related category. If that category was previous maxed out, you can not spend more points there to regain lost ground

My crit fail rate is around 1:20 on template or clone combines. This is perhaps a touch too frequent, considering the resources we use (DNA).

My failure rate on experimentation is a consistent 1:10... this means a template without a failure doesn't happen often. I'd like to see this changed to more of 1:20 so a Master can have a reasonable chance to have a template without a failure... the only way I've managed to cut down my risk on this is to spend 2 or 3 points at once in a single category after doing the math to see if I have room to fullly utilize all the points. Spending xp pts in multiple categories isn't a solution because thats a sure fire way to screw a template up... gotten some really weird combines doing points that way.

I think the "jumping fails" is a flaw of the actual crafting system. That doesn't make it any easier to acept I know, but it means it's deeper (and harder to "fix") than just redoing a few sections of code (though I thought I saw something from Talth saying Kel would look into it).

I had a fail the other day where Fort dropped from 49x to 1! I should have stopped there and made the thing into a critter. Would be interesting to see what effect a Fort of 1 would have on a final result

I've actually had a good run without critical failures recently myself. I have had it consistantly bad at times though and every time I make a clone using dna from something that took an exceptionally long time to produce or gather I actually feel my stomach tighten every time I reach for that assemble button.

I just had three critical in a row. Most of the samples was from Bark..Burrower Queen VHQ. I think something must be wrong here. Its not that fun spending hours efter hours, first to locate high level creatures, then try to sneak up to them without being discoverd, getting aggro........ and then loose all the samples in critical failures.