Creature Handler Archive
Thread: * Creature Herds! *
Joker9125
Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:29 pm
#14
Hmm what if they made heard animals drop no loot and give like 1 or 2 exp? In fact why not do that to all the static spawns?
Pluto9Moon
Mon Oct 25, 2004 9:43 pm
#15
What if CH could frighten herd and drive them through areas. Mass trample Jedi in the Geo Caves.
SioBabble
Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:34 pm
#16
This would be a fun idea.
Pluto9Moon wrote:
What if CH could frighten herd and drive them through areas. Mass trample Jedi in the Geo Caves.
Monvictus
Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:36 pm
#17
I actually expected the game to operate more like this when I first started playing....with herds or animals roaming around freely.Was kinda dissapointed that it was'nt like that.I think it could definitely make for more interesting gameplay.
Joker9125
Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:26 pm
#18
Double post
Message Edited by Joker9125 on 10-26-2004 12:25 AM
MrHawat
Tue Oct 26, 2004 5:39 am
#19
Yes, I would like to see more natural behavior of animals. Unfortunately large herds would be decimated shortly. With Jedi/FS grinders killing anything that moves with impunity not to mention people harvesting meat/hide/bone for profit the herd would last about two minutes after server reboot and be campped the rest of the day. If you cap XP and Harvesting people would scream bloody murder about useless spawns taking the place of wild spawns.
Yes, the stampede would be way cool but also get us on top of the Hate list again. Now, people either feel sorry for us or ignore us. I like it that way. The first jerk that stampededs a heard through a city would really get people screaming. It is why you can not release a pet into the wild and watch it run off. In the beginning you could but people would release Rancors in the Cantina and Starports just to grief people. It was one of the first things that started the CH hate.
Liberation
Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:13 am
#20
Could always get them to implement a herd leader for each herd....this could could be a variant of the herd creature type which is significantly bigger and harder than the rest that it's protecting. And give it an enormous amount of HAM and ridiculous resists.....along with full lightsaber immunity !
(Sorry do I sound a little anti-jedi)
Joker9125
Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:25 pm
#21
YoBobby wrote:
well it would be great if they made it where creatures roam about the planet and have better AI but that may not happen until much later into the futuer....or it may never happen. However nothing is stopping us creature handlers from making them ourselves right now....seriously there are so many ways to make a herd with the pets we have.Like i said before we could get them all to follow one person or follow a creature which is on a patrol. I really think making a herd could be a really fun event.
I have no doubt it would be fun for the first 10 min untill a CSR forced you to store all of them because of server lag.
Joker9125
Tue Oct 26, 2004 1:26 pm
#22
YoBobby wrote:
Joker9125 wrote:
YoBobby wrote:
well it would be great if they made it where creatures roam about the planet and have better AI but that may not happen until much later into the futuer....or it may never happen. However nothing is stopping us creature handlers from making them ourselves right now....seriously there are so many ways to make a herd with the pets we have.Like i said before we could get them all to follow one person or follow a creature which is on a patrol. I really think making a herd could be a really fun event.
I have no doubt it would be fun for the first 10 min untill a CSR forced you to store all of them because of server lag.
Why would they do that? Huge raids occur all the time and sometimes crash the server. So would it be fair for them to lag and crash the server as much as they want while us creature handlers get in trouble for it.
CSR's tell CH's to store pets if they see them out with them in cornet because they "supposedly" cause lagwhile they say nothing to all the docs with droids out. Yea it sucks but thats the way it is
YoBobby
Wed Oct 27, 2004 12:17 am
#23
Joker9125 wrote:
YoBobby wrote:
well it would be great if they made it where creatures roam about the planet and have better AI but that may not happen until much later into the futuer....or it may never happen. However nothing is stopping us creature handlers from making them ourselves right now....seriously there are so many ways to make a herd with the pets we have.Like i said before we could get them all to follow one person or follow a creature which is on a patrol. I really think making a herd could be a really fun event.
I have no doubt it would be fun for the first 10 min untill a CSR forced you to store all of them because of server lag.
Why would they do that? Huge raids occur all the time and sometimes crash the server. So would it be fair for them to lag and crash the server as much as they want while us creature handlers get in trouble for it.
Liberation
Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:22 am
#24
Bearing in mind that JTL has arrived (not to mention the imminent arrival of EQ2 and another similar product who's name I shall not mention for fear of message deletion) , it's very likely that planet populations will now dip substantially.
Hopefully the knock on effect will be that there's much less lag and therefore no reason for the CSR's to make seemingly unreasonable demands to store pets??
Krosc
Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:47 pm
#25
I think its an excellent idea. Its really more what I expected orginally. Herd type movement, and fixed lairs would be rare.
AEK
Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:58 pm
#26
I actually thought I saw a herd of ikopi once. Had the same suggestions you all have.
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=creature_handler&message.id=206311&highlight=ikopi+heard#M206311
http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=creature_handler&message.id=206311&highlight=ikopi+heard#M206311