Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: blood samples to be collected by rangers
I think your idea is pretty good, and I don't see a major downside to it. Rangers are in dire need of some functionality. I also wish that an MBE could see the animals information like a master ranger can, so I could drop hunt master as the harvesting bonus is useless without good weapon skill.
To prevent the best DNA from becoming too easily obtained, I think that the ranger must use a DNA sampling kit crafted by BE's that somehow transfers the skill of the BE who made it. There are two advantages to this. I think that kind of two way trade would help prevent rangers from over-speculating, and flooding the market with mutant rancor dna, making it the cheapest dna available. I'm thinking that if cooperation was required this way, most of the sampling would occur when a ranger already has a customer wanting specific dna. Also, the resources required to make the kit can be adjusted to compensate for the efficiency gained by this kind of specialization.
Its an interesting idea, but it seems kind of "ho-hum" to both rangers and BE's to be honest. Rangers have big problems right at the very core of their profession, i.e. they are very poor hunters and harvesters and most of their skills are useless. I'd say that ought to be the biggest development priority before we start worrying about things like this. Also, if rangers wanted to get into this sort of business there is already a good opportunity to do this now. Since the biggest challenges in getting high level samples are locating and then approaching the animal (BMBQ and mutant rancors in particular), rangers can use their tracking and cammo abilities to help BE's right now if they wanted to do that.
Others have proposed in the past the concept of selling dna from one BE to another and it's always gotten a luke warm reception.
ArthurDentOnBria wrote:Its an interesting idea, but it seems kind of "ho-hum" to both rangers and BE's to be honest. Rangers have big problems right at the very core of their profession, i.e. they are very poor hunters and harvesters and most of their skills are useless. I'd say that ought to be the biggest development priority before we start worrying about things like this. Also, if rangers wanted to get into this sort of business there is already a good opportunity to do this now. Since the biggest challenges in getting high level samples are locating and then approaching the animal (BMBQ and mutant rancors in particular), rangers can use their tracking and cammo abilities to help BE's right now if they wanted to do that.
Others have proposed in the past the concept of selling dna from one BE to another and it's always gotten a luke warm reception.
I do agree that rangers pretty much need an overhaul, and this would only scratch the surface as far as making it a standalone profession. But it would help BE's! Of course, we don't really need alot of help these days. I believe that even without any weapon skill, ranger traps should be enough to incapacitate a wild animal and collect any resource they might get from it, milk, meat whatever. A trapped animal should be put into such a vulnerable state that the ranger could finish it off with a basic weapon at novice marksman.
Bendi_James wrote:
I'm gonna /bump this. I like this thread and it possibly opens up some opportunities for the Rangers. I kind of like it.
Man, that's the big drawback to discussion forums. The only ideas that get any attention are the extremely contraversial ones. Ideas where everyone is in agreement are instantly vaporized by a strong argument in favor of the idea, as nothing else needs to be said. So, whenever you see a good idea, you should taut it's virtues piece by piece in small, incomplete posts spread out over the week.
Cephalo wrote:
But it would help BE's!
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 03-25-2004 08:46 AM