Bio Engineer Archive

I always had problems sampling. My solution can't be Devs solution and I don't care what they do in that respect. I die and I die alot. I waypoint my nest and I just incap and die, over and over and over and over and yep, over again. My Kett char is a MBE cl 30 with Ranger 4000 though I have never bothered with the camo thing. Pre 20, I haven't played Odap after 20 yet the cl didn't matter when sampling. Good because if it was cl based, a cl 30 couldn't sample a cl 75. I find the only thing Master does in improve quality of sample. Ioci on Ahazi is not an MBE and she gets below average samples. Odap always gets VG and minimum average. Again, Ioci is a cl12 I think so the incap field goes down for her and she doesn't have a success ratio but her sample career is limited. I have unique rules for Ioci char so it isn't a good example.

I will send Odap out today and get some samples, see what happens.

Maybe, Odap is sampling as he was before.

Dath

Malk one: Fail, avg VG, it died.
Malk two: Fail, Fail, Fail, VG, VG, it died.

Message Edited by Oggat on 07-21-2005 06:36 AM

I'm a MBE / Master Smuggler on Corbantis (I'm finding that Feign Death is GREAT when sampling), so I'm CL 57.

I hit MBE after Pub 20 went live, so I can't say what sampling was like before Pub 20 for MBE's. I went sampling for Malkloc's (level 75) and I succeeded about 1/3rd of the time (I ended up getting I think 7 samples total and I never got agro'd, no Mask Scent used).

Maybe I've just been lucky?

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Rin380 wrote:

I am a Master Bio-Engineer and Master Tailor, so my CL is only 17. I don't usually sample DNA often, so I didn't realize this right away. It seems that I can no longer sample DNA from creatures that are higher levels than me. I also fail much more often with creatures that are at my level and lower.

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Well I for one was able to sample CL 65 up to 75 with maybe 1 or 2 good returns and the critter would never know I was there. Now when I try to sample anything above level 58 I either get one good sample then they turn on me, or it fails and I have to beat feet out of there. I never had this much trouble before. I have worked through other hot-fixes before and it was not like this, as far as I can remember. By the way I have died 4 times now and that has never happened since I became a MBE.

I go out with my guildmate who is cl 80, and I find I can sample most things still. I am having more "failed to sample" though.

just in case it makes a difference ... try getting about 2m from the creature and standing absolutely still while sampling rather than trying to follow it, sit down etc. Don't touch any other keys. I don't know if this will help at all ... I have not had any problem with sampling at all oneither of my BE's - either with novice BE or master BE.