Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: has anyone noticed an increase in critical failures?
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Kevie
Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:42 am
#1
for the past week i've had orders for "high-lvl" pets
so lots of sampling, running, dying and then finally a beaten, bruised, aching Oaceen can get to some crafting
but no! critical fail! out of about15 pets in the past two days i'vecritical failed 4 times
the few days before i critical failed on a chef schematic which i had never had happened to me but didn't mind it too much but what was really weird is i had to try the schematic 5 times because on the three other attempts i got a critical failure experiment
i'm not crying stealth nerf or anything, just wondering if anyone has noticed an increase with all this stuff
i understand it's part of the game and really don't mind it all, but 4 out of 15 were critical failures?
seems a bit much to just chalk up to luck without asking everyone if they've experienced the same thing
so, anyone having similar problems?
Bracci
Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:00 am
#2
I've noticed a few more crit fails during experimentation than normal, but only had a few (less than 5) critical fails on assembly in the past 3 weeks. The ones during experimentation always happened when I was crafting tissues, and the ones on assembly always happened during pet creation. Go figure, when a crit fail would help I never get it (crit fail = lower CL) and when it's painful I always get it.
Akelan
Mon Jun 07, 2004 8:01 am
#3
I have noticed an unusual rate of crit fails recently, but I have just attributed it to the way luck seems to run on the crafting in general; I will see a run of unusually good things, get used to it, build expectations, take a risk, and get kicked in the teeth on crit fails.. lower the expectations, luck will gradually improve .. Rinse & Repeat.
LLan
Jonah_McPete
Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:59 am
#4
I dont Usually get many Crit fails but I had 4 in a row last night, Hours of DNA gathering from three different planets wasted...grrr
c00kie
Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:18 am
#5
at least I know I am not alone... its killin me... I actually have stopped doing customer orders now because of 6 hours worth of mutant samples more or less down the drain
NancyJ
Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:35 am
#6
I think its more of a case of sods law rather than a stealth nerf. I've made a load of yard trash pets and not a single crit.
You're making high level pets where it really matters if you cirt - so ofcourse you will
You're making high level pets where it really matters if you cirt - so ofcourse you will
obeewan
Tue Jun 08, 2004 4:31 am
#7
Critical fails on 30-40 CL's, yes
In fact, two internal crafting failures..what the heck was that?
Devero
Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:17 am
#8
I made8 pets Monday. 4 or 5were 2nd generation. All with light armor. No critical failures.
Message Edited by Devero on 06-08-2004 07:18 AM
Yny
Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:24 pm
#9
No increase in the number of crit fails, but without fail I will crit on the combine of DNA I want to work the most 
MonsterMagnet
Wed Jun 09, 2004 7:08 am
#10
Yes on those critical failures. I had at least five within 15 minutes all at the dna combination level. For about 15 combinations I failed five times. Pretty darn silly if you ask me.
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