Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: A few quick questions about the profession.
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Duende1
Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:47 am
#1
Hi,
I'm a fairly new player and I'd like to know a few things about the BE profession, or better yet your products. For example, I love the idea of owning a pet/mount, especially one that grows really big. What's the biggest a non-BE/CH can handle?Some more questionsare:What's the point of having those super huge animals like kimogillas (sp) and rancors? Can they serve other professions? Can they patrol long distances? Will there ever be a flying mount? And lastly ... how much food can a pet eat?
Ultimately, I want one, hopefully a really nasty looking one that I can call, "Fuzzy" or "Pudding", but I want to take care of it correctly.
Thanks.
P.S. If we can talk aboutanother topichere, great. I have a few more questions. Otherwise I post them over in the server or trade forums.
Here they are:
- What's the most creativedeal you ever made with a chef?
- Are most BE's in it for the fun or is it only fulfilling a necessary role (i.e. meet the demand)?
- Is it more common to have a BE as an alt or are most BE's the "only" account?
- Do chefs provide the greatest income potential for you or is it spread across Tailor and other professions?
Thanks for your time and I'll leave with this idea. If chef's provide the greatest single income source then consider sponsoring noobs (especially noob guildies, if possible)through the chef grind. Grow your own client base..hehe. Keep having fun and tell me any ideas you have. I'll pass them around. I talk to many players in Kauri.
NancyJ
Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:13 am
#2
I think the biggest mounts are brackasets and falumpasets.
No there is no purpose to **edit** extension pets like kimos and rancors.
No there are no flying mounts and there is unlikely to be one any times soon based on feedback from the fanfest.
Pets only eat food when they're hungry, they will eat 1 piece of food then they wont be hungry, pets only get hungry after a fight, if you never fight with it, your pet will not get hungry.
I've never made a 'creative' deal with a chef, I've been asked for schematics many times though.
Pretty even split I'd say, some are in it for the money, some are in it for the fun and the challenge.
BE's alts are far too common for chefs and tailors who dont want to give up other skills to get BE on their main or buy from another BE.
Chef items have the lowest profit margin (expect maybe pet stims) but generally the greatest volume of sales.
No there is no purpose to **edit** extension pets like kimos and rancors.
No there are no flying mounts and there is unlikely to be one any times soon based on feedback from the fanfest.
Pets only eat food when they're hungry, they will eat 1 piece of food then they wont be hungry, pets only get hungry after a fight, if you never fight with it, your pet will not get hungry.
I've never made a 'creative' deal with a chef, I've been asked for schematics many times though.
Pretty even split I'd say, some are in it for the money, some are in it for the fun and the challenge.
BE's alts are far too common for chefs and tailors who dont want to give up other skills to get BE on their main or buy from another BE.
Chef items have the lowest profit margin (expect maybe pet stims) but generally the greatest volume of sales.
Spazzers
Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:10 am
#3
Brackasets and Banthas I believe are the largest. The brack is actually pretty fast as well when it comes to normal running. The carrion spat is very fast when it sprints.
There used to be a purpose to owning large dinosaur type animals back in the day. Now that bio-engineers can produce high level animals in skins like the razor cat or an eopie there really is no purpose to kimos or rancors. Many of the larger animals you see with people were tamed out of the wild. Yes, there are some true blue die hard creature handlers that refuse to deal with bio-engineers except for medicines.
There are no flying mounts. All the bird types you see players with were tamed out of the wild. A bio-engineer can not make a flying animal.
A pet does not need to eat ever. Feed an animal when you want to buff its stats just like you would consume food yourself. An animal will tell you its hungry when its HAM has been reduced in a fight. Healing the animal usually makes it stop saying its hungry. Even if it says its hungry you do not need to feed it unless you want to buff its stats.
I've had deals with chefs that would give me food for tissues. That works for a while until I end up with more food than I can use. I don't like having to re-market food items since my vendor is labeled bio-products not chef products. Typically I just hunt for meat, harvest the whiz out of good flora spawns and make tissues when I'm not making animals.
The last group of questions I'll lump together. I've been a BE sinceshortly after launchlast year. When I bought the game it was to become a BE. I don't have an alt account. I don't plan on having one either. $15 a month to play a buggy game is more than enough if you ask me. Back then I used to churn out eopies in bulkfor creature handlers to train, tame and release. That was how I made money from bio-engineer. Pet meds sold well but they all had to be crafted by hand. Bio-engineers couldn't use factories. That's a ton of clicking I must say. Many products a bio-engineer had available to them were for professions that didn't exist in the game. Pet meds and animals were our only way to make money.I had tosuppliment my income by selling resources. Resources were my main source of income back then.
The profession has definitely evolved. Mounts made millionaires out of bio-engineers almost over night. We have a clone system that makes high end animals that are very marketable, pet meds can be made in bulk with the use of a factory, and chef/tailor tissues are a great source of income.
It tickles me to hear people complain about the BE profession. Most of the people complaining never had to make all their pet meds by hand. They never had to actively seak out customers to make animals for. Chefs and tailors had no use for us what so ever. Things really have changed.
Centurion
Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:46 am
#4
Good answers Bu and Nancy.
I have a question (and you'd think I would have found it by now). I had blap biscuits and tried to feed my kimo the other day. I couldn't figure out how to make him eat it, what's the trick?
TIA
I have a question (and you'd think I would have found it by now). I had blap biscuits and tried to feed my kimo the other day. I couldn't figure out how to make him eat it, what's the trick?
TIA
Kevm
Wed Aug 18, 2004 7:57 am
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You select 'Feed' from the radial menu for your pet. Just becareful since you can also feed your pet Brandy, or any of the chef foods and even spice. Best to make sure all your chef foods are in your backpack.
Centurion
Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:16 am
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NancyJ wrote:
They might not be pet food, thats probably the issue.
Everything I've read on assorted chef sites indicates that blap buscuits are "pet only" food.
And I want to say that I tried "feed" off the radial menu but it reported he wasn't hungry. I had also read that if you dragged and dropped it onto him he would eat it and be buffed, I tried dropping it on him in the main window and on his control device in my datapad and neither worked.
I'll try the feed radial menu option again tonight to be sure.
Thanks for the help though.
Kevm
Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:21 am
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the 'feed' will only work if they are hungry. If they aren't telling you they are hungry then they wont eat as far as I know.
Centurion
Wed Aug 18, 2004 8:38 am
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Kevm wrote:the 'feed' will only work if they are hungry. If they aren't telling you they are hungry then they wont eat as far as I know.
That's what my experience had been. Which is part of why it was so baffling.
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