Bio Engineer Archive

I've been grinding out BE and I like the idea of it a lot. I'm hopeful that its potential will be fulfilled in the near future. To that end I've come up with some ideas for ways BE's could make credits, be more important to the player population, and put some zip into master status.

Give the BE the ability to craft cloning stations with variable quality. For example, set public stations at +10 on a range of -30 to +30. When a player uses an "above average" cloning terminal made by a BE, item decay is reduced. Put this in Cloning 4 or MBE.

Give the BE the ability to sample PCs. Make it so samples can be given to a cloning terminal so players can clone at a lower cost. (It saves the machine the trouble of sampling you.) The real benefit would be to tie sample quality to item decay. "Above average" samples provide lower item decay rates. Put this in DNA Sampling 4 or MBE:

[Note: When I say "above average" I mean it in the relative sense. I don't know what actual values would be average at this point.]

More Tissues

+terrane negotiation (not my idea but I like it)
-tracking (makes it harder to be tracked by a ranger)
+regen
+damage healing (not wounds)
+medicine use

[ if saddles or other mount-worn items become craftable ]
+mount speed / terrane negotiation
+mount defense

In summary, let us use our skills in cloning and dna sampling to ease item decay, and give us more tissues that other players would find useful. These changes would provide us with more income opportunities and make us more useful within the bigger picture.

I expected a few flames, but I didn't expect to see tumbleweeds. Nobody thinks these ideas would be good?

I dig the -tracking modifier. That would be a great skill for PvP. I'd like to see more items like that.

Haggis

I think that cloning stations would be more of an architect thing, but would require BE components. I guess no one commented because the idea of BE's having something to do with player cloning isn't new, it's just that we don't see much chance of anything being done about it in the near future.

The tissues are a good idea, and probably will go on the development list once our most major headaches are taken care of. We will need tissues to take the place of the useless ones that were dropped. So, keep it in mind and drag it out again later.