Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Curious about bio-engineer vendors
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Krizag
Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:08 pm
#1
I am a novice ch and decided to try and get a bio pet since it will be a while before I can tame something decent. I will let everyone know that I play on Shadowfire and maybe its defferent then other servers, but of all the advertised shops the claimed to have bio-pets, I only found one. I searched for over 3 hours and went to more then 35 shops that advertised bio-pets. Why is this? I know that there wll always be empty vendors regardless of what it sells but why are bio-pets so hard to find? The only ones listed on the bazarr in the whole galaxy were kadoos which I am guessing is a grinding pet or something. There were only 11 in the whole galaxy on the bazaar. So why is it so hard to find them? Are they made from hard to get resources or just very complicated? This is not a flame, just honest curiousity. Thanks!!
droid327
Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:19 pm
#2
kaadu are those ostrich-like mounts, theres always a small market for non-ch mountable kaadu.
and the reason BE vendors are so hard to find is that BE takes a lot of skill points but isnt part of the artisan tree, so you need to spend the extra 18 SP on Artisan to even get a vendor at all. On top of that, you need to advance up in the Merchant tree to get the ability to advertise your vendor on the planetary map, which is where I'm assuming you're looking for your vendors. That doesnt leave a lot of extra SPs to get combat skills or master Scout for the maskscent bonus, and you really do need one or the other, as BEs must collect almost all their resources from creatures - either in meat or DNA samples, which only aBE can collect, so you're pretty much stuck having to go out among the nastiest creatures in the game to really make anything worthwhile =) So, any BE vendors you're likely to see on the map arent going to be the best BEs out there, and they probably stopped playing BE when they got bored heh =)
Check the vendor list thread on this board (link in the FAQ) for a real list of BE vendors on your server
Zadokk
Thu Jul 15, 2004 7:21 pm
#3
you will notice that this happens in every proffession. for instance, i was on the lookout for a ber13 harvester and i had to traul through about 10 empty vendors before i found one that had ANY stock. things that arent sold after 30 days get removed from the listings so the likelyhood is that the BE got bored and quit.
Krizag
Thu Jul 15, 2004 8:47 pm
#4
I checked the io list but there are none listed on my server (shadowfire) but after spamming in coronet I finally found one. 
Lozareth
Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:07 pm
#5
Krizag wrote:Are they made from hard to get resources or just very complicated?FONT>
Both.
Takes forever to get dna, then it has to be the right dna, inserted in the right order, and then you've got to know where to experiment. I've spent as long as 16 hours making a single pet before and even the simplest can take over an hour if you don't have any dna in stock.
NancyJ
Thu Jul 15, 2004 11:22 pm
#6
The biggest difference between bio pets and other crafted products is we cant just doa factory run of pets to fill up a vendor. And we cant machine harvest our resources, DNA has to be collected by hand. Every single pet has to be crafted by hand using DNA sampled by hand.
Thats pricipally why bio pet vendors are largely empty.
Thats pricipally why bio pet vendors are largely empty.
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