Bio Engineer Archive

just about every bio-engineer has faced these problems.... and then people run around and yell how much they hate bio-engineers /sigh

I dunno, I mean I've had my share of rude customers, CH seems to have a very high "l33t factor", but I've been a BE since Sept and never have I been treated as a crafting machine before. Insert customers materials and schematics, out pops a free thing-a-ma-jig. Never happened before, but 3 times in 24 hours is pretty amazing.

I think any Master BE who actually keeps their tag up is bound to have a slew of stories like that one. Then again, I posted a story a while back about someone hitting me with a bunch of noob questions, and just as I was about put him on ignore, we agreed on some tissues he was going to buy from me. He took them toa tailor, and that tailor contacted me an hour later to buy several crates worth of tissues from me.

Anyway, one of the most laughable requests I got was for "a non-ch rancor." I nearly fell out of my chair laughing. I've had someone else offer me 10k for a crate of 50 Pet Stim-B.

Possibly a result of a very sophisticated group of players suddenly finding themselves dependent on BEs to make their best stuff and realising that if you simply demand a free/cheap schematic from every MBE you meet that by the time you've asked 10 you have your Bio Nutrient Supplement crates

I havent been Master BE for very long myself but since all have "bad" stories, ill tell one of my first experiences as an MBE.
No dont get me wrong, iv already had a fair deal with rude customers but this one was not rude at all.

I was standing right outside theed spaceport and got a tell from a Master Chef, read something like this:

"Hey man can you make some schematics for me"
So i thought, well ok i might do it since im not occupied for the time being.
Just as i was gonna reply:
"Ill pay for your efforts"
well when i heard that i was sure to make some schematics.
So he came to the spaceport and traded me some meat and flora to make broad spectrum nutrient.
This is where I screw up.
I managed the first time (filled it with great successes) to make a prototype instead of a schematic.
So i told him what i had managed to do, and he was understanding and traded me some more resources to make from, not rude at all.
Ok, so i proceeded to make a new one, this time i got a crit fail on the last experiment making it nearly useless, made a new one wich crit failed in the crafting stage itself.
Ok now i was getting pissed and explained to him what was going on, but still he wasnt mad or anything cause he obviously had his fair share of this as a chef.
So, more resources to come and i finally got the 2 schematics together with great successes and gave him back.
Then he wanted to trade one last time, and what do i recieve?
Well, let me just put it this way, the pay was very good
Even though he supplied the resources himself he didnt treat me like a crafting machine, he payed me very well for my 5-10min it took to make the 2 schematics fom him.

I wish all customers were like this tbh, understanding, polite and pay for what its actually worth.

Wee, still clicking the wrong button and double posting w/ no edit button in the options menu.

Anyway, lol, I know I'm getting old when I start thinking a game like this needs an age limit. Being an mbe is the first thing to ever make me think that about an mmorpg. Probably because it's such a difficult class to understand.