Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Harvesters for meat!? read!
Someone a while back was asking if there was going to be a Meat Harvester. I think first of all that is a GREAT idea, and this is how I think it should work...
It should run more or less like a factory, you can put it anywhere and it is run by credits and power just like all harvesters, but to harvest meat I think it should need bio eng pets. Just like cloning a, say rancor and then harvesting its meat and cloning another and harvesting again etc...
I think that the lower the level of the pet the less meat and the more pets and the lower quality you get from the pet in one day, say if you use a level 10 bio eng pet, say you only get like 400 meat a day and need 5 level 10 pets at say, low quality meats like 80oq etc and if you use a rancor in it then you should get say, 3k a day with 2 rancor’s and a quality meat like 900oq or something like that.
If you can clone these animals and use them to attack as a pet, or clone the animal and be able to harvest there DNA again from the animal, why not be able to put it though a factory/harvester to harvest its meat.
With the new patch coming out you wont be able to go outback and take nuna DNA and make a rancor so this will seem like a good idea in that matter. but this will give the Bio eng more of a job because when you figure it, after this next patch, people wont be able to be 2200 in creature handler and have a gsp no more, so the need for stimps will prob go down a lot. and it gives people a real reason to buy our pets!! WOW!!!!! almost a frist.
Just my thoughts on this idea... please post what ya think, thx.
Wasn't there a rancher skill class in the patch? that or Farmer... I've only heard rumors of it though... Making that the elite BE after class would be fun...
I'm on Naritus as well, but I can never find any decent meat for sale. It doesn't look like the scouts and rangers are even trying to sell meat. I've been to every city on every planet, and all the bazaars have little if any meat, usually in small quantities with an overall quality in the 200's at a price of 10cr per. Let me know if you know of any scouts or rangers that want to sell good quality meat in reasonable quantities at reasonable prices. I'd rather do that than have a "meat harvester" device.
Of course, what I would really like is a "ranch". I bio-engineer a creature to have good meat qualities, I put it in the ranch, I put in flora or meat (depending upon whether the creature is a carnivore or herbivore), supply water, add money for maintenance, and meat pops out (either conveniently packaged or on the hoof ready to kill). Maybe I have to cross-breed to get the best quality meat or to combat the degrading effects of mutation. I don't mind tinkering with the thing, it would be interesting and go along with my bio-engineering skills quite well. Maybe something similar for producing the high quality wooly hides the artisans need for furniture.
You cant really say that we would be taking business away from scouts and rangers, if only about 1% really makes a business from it. how many of you guys can really go on the bazaar and find 500+ meat on there, i cant all I find is about 5-10 meat and you cant really make anything wiht 5-10 meat...
If not this then give the scouts and rangers a real reason to harvest meat from the animals not just -If I harvest this meat I will have 30 meat, then If i harvest from 99 other guys ill have 3k meat! with this i can sell it for 15k! - I wouldnt wana sit around harvesting that much meat for only 15k it takes a long time for little pay. somethings gotta be done...
I think this is a great idea ... we could even say that rangers are needed to run it .. or perhaps supply the input in the way of trapped animals.
And maybe bio-engineered feed to increase production?
Add milk and eggs and we'll be in business!
Apollo336 wrote:
You cant really say that we would be taking business away from scouts and rangers, if only about 1% really makes a business from it. how many of you guys can really go on the bazaar and find 500+ meat on there, i cant all I find is about 5-10 meat and you cant really make anything wiht 5-10 meat...
If not this then give the scouts and rangers a real reason to harvest meat from the animals not just -If I harvest this meat I will have 30 meat, then If i harvest from 99 other guys ill have 3k meat! with this i can sell it for 15k! - I wouldnt wana sit around harvesting that much meat for only 15k it takes a long time for little pay. somethings gotta be done...
As a ranger, you know what we really need?A pet stim and creature harvester. Just bypass the BE's like you would bypass us. Just plunk down a "heavy" and generate thousands of pet stims every day. That would be SO cool, we'd never have to buy from you again. wohoo! I can't wait for this feature.
AyaOnane wrote:
I think this is a great idea ... we could even say that rangers are needed to run it ..
So what is the difference? Either way you'd have to buy from scouts rangers? How is this different from now? Only difference would be that you've now invalidated the entire hunting lines of skill development from rangers and scouts, taken the fun of hunting away, and also hurt the combat classes.
But I guess what this idea really comes down to is... "wouldn't it be cool if awesome meat was free and we didn't need to do a thing to get it?".
Okay you must not understand, i dont mind AT ALL buying my meats infact id rather buy my meats but how can I do this if NO ONE sells meats... you are saying we are takin fun away from scouts and rangers, i woundnt mind at all if ONLY rangers could use this, as it stands now it is IMPOSSABLE run a good medic or bioeng class or any other class without having to run out and get your own meat.. we just need something that will allow us to get more meat into the game, even by say makin instead of kaadus droping 30 meat drop say 200 or somthing that would even be better, give you guys more of a reason to harvest meat....
Apollo336 wrote:
Hey gold where is your meat store located? if rangers and scouts would harvest meat this wouldnt be a problem in the first place...
Doesn't seem to me like it's a problem now. Meat is harder to get than flora, meat costs more. How is that wrong? There is meat all the time on the bazars, really good stuf, but it aint cheap, and BE's seem to be producing tissues in mass. I see no shortage of meat.
If you're on Bria I can give you waypoints to some great places to buy meat. There's also a group of rangers called "Rangers of Bria" who will get large quantities for you. But you won't be paying 3cr/ea for em, I can tell you that. The availability argument doesn't really hold though. Heck, it's probably easier to buy a stack of 5k 900OQ meat then it is to buy a crate of 800 power pet stims. Maybe we really *should* have pet stims harvesters *chuckle*.