Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Thoughts on cloned soldiers?
Why not give BE's the ability to dna sample a faction pet or faction NPC? Then you could create a cloned soldier for sale to be used like a faction pet obtained from a recruiter. I would think these might sell quite well. After all, humans, rodians, zabraks, etc. are all animals too. Let's say that you make them, then "give" them to the recruiter and name your price...then factioned players could come and buy your pets. If you put it up for sale for 50k credits, the recruiter would charge half that number in faction. And you could have all types of HAM faction pets too.
- A BE could make a regular trooper, give it to the recruiter for an asking price of 1000 credits.
- The recruiter charges the buying player 500 faction.
- When the cloned soldier is purchased, the faction amount it was sold for gets multiplied by 2 and that amount in credits is deposited to the BE's account.
- Factional recruiters could act like bazaar terminals for faction pets in that way.
I'm not a BE, never have been...but have always been intrigued. I just like to visit all profession forums to stay knowledgeable as I can on the game, so forgive my intrusion into your forum. While I was reading all this stuff about cloning/sampling/etc. I thought about this and wondered if the BE community wanted something like this as well.
I'm sure that it's not an original idea, so please forgive if this has been posted elsewhere. Just wanted to get opinion on whether or not it's a good wishlist item to consider.
What are you doing in here????
Get out!!!
Hehe, DomI posted something like this w/o the faction recruiter idea somewhere around here. Didn't get any play tho. SOE might be trying to stay away from this issue, as this is close to a RL hot political topic of cloning humans. Dunno. But i like the idea. Would like to make the soldiers with specific damage types. For instance. Make commandos for blast damage, TKAs for kinetic damage, Combat Medics for poisons/diseases, etc. Also, now with the ability to tell your pets do use certain specials, you could tell your commando to toss a grenade or a TKA to do a kd.
Questions I would have include, what to sample? Existing faction pets, PCs,combine it with rancor dna??
You could sample me, killing machine that I am. 
I can see it now..."I'd like a squad of Deathblow Soldiers please!"
I would then have to take up BE to clone myself. 