Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Oh, The Mind of the Fickle Customer
Thats funny, I've been wondering around for months with a BE tag above my head and yesterday was the first time anyone had ever asked me to make them a Graul Mauler. Just lucky I guess. (Or it could be that most people seem to want me to make them a BDQ or TMB)
Tal-N wrote:
A week ago? I think you mean yesturday, I still get people asking for Graul Maulers ect.... the patches change everything for us but the single thing that matters. It was nice to see them jump onto that bug which allowed us to rapidly click the dna samples but it shows where their priorities lie.
The big patch has been live for not even a week, player cities in my galaxy reached the maximum allowed within the first hour, and mounts can be found scurrying the countryside. People for the most part understand and accept the 60% growth phase with a few exceptions.
I've advertised my pet deeds and I've made my share of sales. Kaadu, and carrion spats. Creature handlers don't buy pet deeds for themselves because they can take missions and get paid to tame their own mounts. I can't fault them for that. People have settled into the mount business and fortunes already made. Amazing how much can occur in a single week.
Having said those things I'm now getting emails for non-creature handler mounts other than kaadu and carrion spats now. Reasons like "I don't want to be caught dead riding a duck," or "you see them everywhere. I want something different." "How would I lookdressed in my uber armor riding on a chicken?"
Of course I reply to these emails that BE's can only make 4 mounts and 2 of them are non-creature handler. I've made detailed explanations. I've cut down the explanations to a short reply. Now its a cursory "sorry BE's can't make those." It reminds me of the old days....a week ago.