Bio Engineer Archive

Do we know if quality of the mounts we are going to make will have any effect on their performance? Just wondering if we should use our best DNA or just use Gnort Junk

Anyone on test sever have a chance to test out different qualities?

Ohhhh, I'd love to know the answer to this myself.

Pretty sure the only difference is HAM... being able to modify speed would be nice though. But save it til after the cloning fix (coming May 2006 to a server near you )

Anyone else tested this? Right now I'm selling my low quality kaadus for 1k and high quality for 10k , when I can make more than 1 in a blue moon. (new server prices). It would be nice to know if quality wasnt an issue in speed.

Once you dismount, a mount will behave the same as a regular pet. This includes combat. I saw a carrion spat with a saddle making short work of the newbie yard outside Mos Entha and asked the owner about this. From a nonCH standpoint, this might not make much difference until they're stuck with a lvl10 pet. Though you might want to remind your customers of this. They won't have to camp to pull out a different pet.

Yes, but most my customers are saying they dont care about any fighting abilities, they just want to know if it'll go the same speed cross country

As a result, I have sold so many kaadu from yard trash and missions, that Ive gone 2 levels of dna in 2 days.

When I was a young BE I made yard trash pets. I heard them running the wrong direction, not following commands, responding stupidly to aggression and cowardly.

Yesterday- my guild raced a 1)mountain dewback, 2) regular spat, 3) giant spat, 4) kaadu, and 5) brack across 3000 m. My finding was that we finished at similar times (only like 2 head length differences that i attributed to maybe moving around buildings and such). We did not use /gallop. Many feel that the spat run the fastest but it wasn't true in this experiment.

Tyrtaeus Agiad, Master BE, Chilastra

Right now there is no way for us to affect speed. Though this may change. I think I saw half of a hint in that direction from Keldarin's latest info...something about adding a new attribute to mounts. He was intentionally vague I think to keep us from screaming our favorite question at him. When? Don't expect to see it until sometime next year.

When traveling with my boyfriend (comp screens next to each other, sharing cable connection, similar hardware) . . . I've noticed my male brackasat (non bio) seems to have much better terrain negotiation (bf and I have the same level, IV), and gallops longer. In normal walking over a distance of flat ground, the bio kaadu (only tested bio) seemed much faster. Keep in mind this would be over a distance of about 1k meters. We used the waypoint tickers to determine who was ahead, as that's really the only way. With 2 comps side by side, you and your friend can both think you are ahead, when really you appear behind him (to him), and vice versa.

The real tests I think should be done on similar hardware and similar connections (if not the same one as in my tests). Lag plays a big factor in this, and what appears to one person's screen, doesn't on another.