Bio Engineer Archive

I received an orderfor a kaadu mount available today. The gomer offered 100K if he can take delivery and ride away this evening

You can't gouge a customer if he's stupid can you?

I hope you guys ground empathy 4

Muahahahaha, yeah, I read that post by Kemal...Glad I'm set to sell and train mounts :-D That grind to empathy 4 sucked immensely, though...Never thought I'd make it.

Should pay off soon enough, though

hehehe

I've been giving my fellow HOBO's animals to "grow" in their datapads. We all stand to make money from this patch

There is a viscious rumor going around my galaxy forum regarding BE pets not being tamable as mounts. I have an idea it stems from the fact a number of our pets are still broken and the creature handlers are not exactly sure which kaadu is CL10.

Unfortunately it has a lot of people questioning whether or not a BE animal can be tamed as a mount. Also, no matter how many times you say it people still won't understand why they can't buy a mount right here right now. I've been asked how you grow an animal

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Spazzers wrote:

There is a viscious rumor going around my galaxy forum regarding BE pets not being tamable as mounts. I have an idea it stems from the fact a number of our pets are still broken and the creature handlers are not exactly sure which kaadu is CL10.

Unfortunately it has a lot of people questioning whether or not a BE animal can be tamed as a mount. Also, no matter how many times you say it people still won't understand why they can't buy a mount right here right now. I've been asked how you grow an animal

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In a test tube of course!

I had two kaadu that I made months ago and had grown up and were getting dusty in my datapad. Pulled them out this morning and trained them as mounts no problems. I've also had several guild mates come up with "wild" dewbacks that were 2 or 3 days old that could not be trained to mount (yet). It is unfortunate that the UI doesn't even give you a hint of whats wrong. (No grayed out option, no too youg warning, nothing)

The un-mountable BE pet rumour stems from the large number of people taking a BE deed, taming it, and trying to train it as a mount immediately. Not enough people understand that a pet has to be at least 60% grown before the option to train it as a mount will show up

I didnt bother with the mount orders, I just went to Endor made some nice 1000+ HAM kaadu and then went into Theed market and gave them all away to people for free. But yeah some people were willing to pay 100k for a mount that is ready to go that minute.

As a BE who doesn't have any CH, do you have to "tame" it in order for it to grow? or will it grow, once it is made?

They are broken I bought a be Kaadu about 3-4 days ago option to tran it as a mount showed up and I trained it saddle and all showed up rode it around abit then needed to go to naboo for somethings got there took mount back out again saddle is gone now though I still get the option to ride it from radial dial will not let me.

It's calmed down a bit now, but I finally had to put up an afk message to email me about pet orders. i've sold out my vendor and all the dna I could carry and still have orders coming in. I love it

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Talthazar wrote:

It's calmed down a bit now, but I finally had to put up an afk message to email me about pet orders. i've sold out my vendor and all the dna I could carry and still have orders coming in. I love it

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Speaking to you in your role as our correspondent - Maybe I am in a minority, I don't know, but I am finding the current state of things extremely frustrating and unsatisfactory from a personal and character point of view.

I am a MBE/MCH who was really looking forward to the first few weeks of mounts. I have a very strong feeling that once vehicles come out the demand for mounts will drop through the floor, unless vehicles are limited in such a way that makes them basically worthless. Higher speed andnot counting as a pet (bio/droid/faction) far outweigh any potential cost issues given the amount of money available to any character in the game. On that basis, I was hoping that I would be able to use my complementary skills to provide mounts at a reasonable rate to customers, creating them under BE and training them with CH. However, the requirement for them to be almost full grown makes that impossible. I refuse to do half the job, either by selling an untrained pet or by training a pet supplied by someone else and don't see why I should have to.

The ONLY possible reason I can see for having the growth requirement for mount training, as opposed to riding, is to slow down their rate of introduction into the game. I can train a worrt to attack a rancor without fear but I cannot train a bol to accept a rider? I am not saying the first makes any sense, but that using spurious arguements about the pet not being big enough yet are trying to put an inconsistent gameplay spin on a design issue that clearly has nothing to do with any concept of reality. If I can train a 14" long frog to attack 12 tons of carnivore, I can use techniques to train a 9' long baby bol to accept a rider.

I know I am in a funk atm, have been since the whole being called an exploiter by TH (my secondary char is a BH with some CH skills), but I have held onto my BE skills for over a month now with the hopes that this publish would be a major step forward. And now I feel like not even logging on, because I am getting constant emails and tells asking for mounts but I will not provide a faulty product (from my point of view) and it gets very disheartening having to constantly reply "sorry, no, the pets need to grow before I can train them as a mount".

do people not know they have to be what 60% grown before mount training?

i tried to explain it, but people just kept asking why I can tame/train mount right on the spot.

I hate people sometimes...well maybe not, but I hate their ignorance.

-sr