Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Just back from TC as MCH, Also Lucas Arts Email & Postal Addy
KzinKiller
Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:46 pm
#66
Tried TC out ....
1. Not enough skill pts to keep MCH and Master Pistol? Great, more useless in combat than ever ....
2. Pet never attacked when I commanded, don't know what's up with that.
1. Not enough skill pts to keep MCH and Master Pistol? Great, more useless in combat than ever ....
2. Pet never attacked when I commanded, don't know what's up with that.
Kitoth
Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:05 pm
#67
KzinKiller wrote:
Tried TC out ....
1. Not enough skill pts to keep MCH and Master Pistol? Great, more useless in combat than ever ....
2. Pet never attacked when I commanded, don't know what's up with that.
Not sure I understand. I was able to do MCH and Master Pistol with lots of SP left over.... I did MCH/MPistols/Medic 0140 to start my tests.
My pets worked as advertised. You sure they were trained for the commands you were using?
theorb22
Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:30 pm
#68
It quite probably is the server having hiccups again, and not registering your attack command :/. That server is really unstable....
Dodece
Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:33 pm
#69
Pets are disposable. People are not. Neither the creature handlers, or anyother player. You have room for over 10 pets in your datapad and yes you are allowed to actually use them as weapons. Now not just pointing the fingers at chs here. I have seen and heard alot of ignorant stuff in this game along this line. First this is a game that avatar really has no emotion if the code told it to turn laugh at you and urinate on you it would. It is not loyal its just coded to follow orders there is no emotional connection. Other then what we conjure up. A pet is merely a mobile mob. We are merely a class that can summon mobile mob for our own use. You never see a riflemen talking about fornicateing with his e11. No ofcoarse not, and by the way yes many gun owners do do that. There is a growing mentality that this is part of.
This or that is far too good to actually use. Quite frankly I am getting a tad bit tired of this nonsense. What are we a heard of chipmunks burying stuff away you know just in case. Its been like a year since anything was really nerfed are we still so gun shy. What are we waiting for the end of days. Are we going to walk up to the gate of saint peter and get a creature saver bonus. You earned it use it for pete sake. What is the point in haveing something you never will use. Its a waste of space. Let me sprinkle a little wisdom in here for everyone.
This game is not going to last forever. One day the last server will spin its last and be silent till its given to an online casino or trashed. Everyone will have moved on to play a bright shiny new game, and this will be a fond memory. Seize the day get use out of what you have worked hard to earn. Pets are toys not museum peices use them. Have fun with them.
If your into mind numbing collecting there are far more rewarding collecting obsessions in the game. You can collect skill tapes guns armors run a museum tons of more varied items to collect then pets. Plus here are a few of my favorite collecting games. Pokemon gotta catch them all. Animal crossing. Mary kate and Ashleys mall adventure saveing the world one shopping trip at a time. Consumerism and shallow materialism save the world.
Use your pets for pete sakes just use your pets. Your not reading a book your sealing it in a vault.
theorb22
Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:43 pm
#70
The choice of disposability of pets is all up to the person controlling them, I for one don't hoard my pets in combat as their all mostly good ones that I better use by golly or i'll die....whether to save the bestfor another dayor throw it all out at once is up to everyone's strategies. (I prefer using my BE pets first as they'll be more effective, and sometimes lately i'll even win 
i'll still cycle through all of em though except my guild's mascot.)The whole collecting thing comes about from rare pets which most importantly are lousy, lousy fighting pets for their level. These pets people collect aren't diamond covered chubas or procelin kaadu or something, their CL 40-65ish pets, which if this game were balanced would be awesome to use in combat....hence, why I think many people save them, so that one day not only can they use a very unique creature in combat but one that actually wins battles 
. The whole issue is the effort required to get them isn't worth the advantage currently, but as the rating says "Gameplay experience may change over time", so one day we might see bull rancors or gaping spider queens swallow people alive in only a few attacks . Of course that would be slightly imbalancing for that exact idea to be implemented....
i'll still cycle through all of em though except my guild's mascot.)The whole collecting thing comes about from rare pets which most importantly are lousy, lousy fighting pets for their level. These pets people collect aren't diamond covered chubas or procelin kaadu or something, their CL 40-65ish pets, which if this game were balanced would be awesome to use in combat....hence, why I think many people save them, so that one day not only can they use a very unique creature in combat but one that actually wins battles . The whole issue is the effort required to get them isn't worth the advantage currently, but as the rating says "Gameplay experience may change over time", so one day we might see bull rancors or gaping spider queens swallow people alive in only a few attacks . Of course that would be slightly imbalancing for that exact idea to be implemented....Though for all I know you might be right and this might be just a game of pokemon to some people, but I don't know any myself, on the boards or in the game :/.
CritterControl
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:12 pm
#71
/cheer jopenack /agree. Dodece i didnt say i never used my pets. try reading before ya post. just because i dont throw them away like they are garbage doesnt mean i dont have fun and fight with them. its all up to the person whether you think of them as garbage or companions. if you want to think that way then fine but dont say that they are disposible when its not the way all CH think. just because you dont think they are important doesnt mean we dont. i perferable dont want to have to spend months and months finding another bull rancor or GPS. but that doesnt mean i dont fight with them.
and btw your arguement about people not being disposable makes no sense. people in the game are data and pixels as well. when the game is gone so is your CH and any other character. its the way i want to play the game and i have every right to play it that way.
Message Edited by CritterControl on 04-19-2005 06:15 PM
Joker9125
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:15 pm
#72
Dodece wrote:
Pets are disposable. People are not. Neither the creature handlers, or anyother player.
Players are disposable. My pets are not. Weather they be another CH or another player. My current stable of pets in my datapad has cost me a few million credits, but do ya know how much itll cost me to get a guildee or some random player to tank that krayt for me? Nothing. I dont know about you but given the choice I'd rather throw another player at that krayt then my 500K custom kimo.
You have room for over 10 pets in your datapad and yes you are allowed to actually use them as weapons.
Hmm weapons............sounds like a combat class to me.
Now not just pointing the fingers at chs here. I have seen and heard alot of ignorant stuff in this game along this line. First this is a game that avatar really has no emotion if the code told it to turn laugh at you and urinate on you it would. It is not loyal its just coded to follow orders there is no emotional connection.
Ya ive heard alotof that to and while I dont agree with all the emotional attachment people are getting with computer icons (I actually get a little freaked out by the level some people take to to), I wouldnt call it ignorant. Just because someone else's playstyle dosent agree with yours dosent make them "ignorant" or wrong.
Other then what we conjure up. A pet is merely a mobile mob. We are merely a class that can summon mobile mob for our own use.
Pretty much.
You never see a riflemen talking about fornicateing with his e11.
Actually yes I have. We have some rather strange convos in guild chat..............
No ofcoarse not,
Fixed
and by the way yes many gun owners do do that. There is a growing mentality that this is part of.
This or that is far too good to actually use. Quite frankly I am getting a tad bit tired of this nonsense. What are we a heard of chipmunks burying stuff away you know just in case. Its been like a year since anything was really nerfed are we still so gun shy. What are we waiting for the end of days. Are we going to walk up to the gate of saint peter and get a creature saver bonus. You earned it use it for pete sake. What is the point in haveing something you never will use. Its a waste of space.
Yup
Let me sprinkle a little wisdom in here for everyone.
You seems to sprinkle alot of things. Sadly wisdom is not one of them.
This game is not going to last forever. One day the last server will spin its last and be silent till its given to an online casino or trashed. Everyone will have moved on to play a bright shiny new game, and this will be a fond memory. Seize the day get use out of what you have worked hard to earn. Pets aretoysweaponsnot museum peices use them. Have fun with them.
Fixed.
If your into mind numbing collecting there are far more rewarding collecting obsessions in the game. You can collect skill tapes guns armors run a museum tons of more varied items to collect then pets. Plus here are a few of my favorite collecting games. Pokemon gotta catch them all. Animal crossing. Mary kate and Ashleys mall adventure saveing the world one shopping trip at a time. Consumerism and shallow materialism save the world.
Ok I'll agree that the Mary kate and Ashley game blows a big one.
Use your pets for pete sakes just use your pets. Your not reading a book your sealing it in a vault.
My comments are in red
theorb22
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:21 pm
#73
Joker- "You seem to sprinkle alot of things. Sadly wisdom is not one of them"
Joker, those things you mention wouldn't happen to be non-G rated....would they?
Message Edited by theorb22 on 04-19-2005 06:21 PM
velm
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:24 pm
#74
I still have my first and only Razor cat in my datapad. I have a crimson razor cat in my datapad. I have a Grand Wrix in my datapad. 22, 29, 25. Do I bring them out when I go Bull Ranc hunting, or PVP? no. I like having them there in my datapad. I like to bring them out in my cantina.
With the fact that BE's can make better pets than found in the wild, why have wild pets at all? Heck, why have rare pets? People get different forms of joy out of the game.
My toon could be a baker, or a TK, or a Jedi. I want none of those. I want to be a CH, with some pets that do not see combat much anymore.
With the fact that BE's can make better pets than found in the wild, why have wild pets at all? Heck, why have rare pets? People get different forms of joy out of the game.
My toon could be a baker, or a TK, or a Jedi. I want none of those. I want to be a CH, with some pets that do not see combat much anymore.
Joker9125
Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:48 pm
#75
theorb22 wrote:
Joker- "You seem to sprinkle alot of things. Sadly wisdom is not one of them"
Joker, those things you mention wouldn't happen to be non-G rated....would they?
Message Edited by theorb22 on 04-19-2005 06:21 PM
Do you honestly think "I" would ever reffer to something that wasnt G rated?
/halo
theorb22
Tue Apr 19, 2005 7:55 pm
#76
I dunno, it just seemed like it could so easily be about something iffy.
Joker9125
Tue Apr 19, 2005 8:05 pm
#77
theorb22 wrote:
I dunno, it just seemed like it could so easily be about something iffy.
And here I was expecting somekind of witty remark. I must say I am dissapointed in you.
Anobaca
Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:02 am
#78
Sorry after reading this I could not stop laughing. maybe because I have been there done that or just the way you wrote it. lol
Indene wrote:
Well I wandered on the TC on Sun to see how it was going. Found the frogs were letting master training happen. Figgures. Right after Joker? grinds all the way. Hey I salute you anyway. Such determination.
I loaded up my MCH as on live. I loaded up Master Rifleman since Master Merchant has little meaning there. (Live to since the recent changes) and (staying on Tat) went west. I was looking for creatures lvl 15+. Found a rock mite lair and saw a baby so stopped and tamed it. Now I had my very own lvl 1 rockmite pet. Off to the west we go. Rather I go. pet did NOT follow. Oh yeah train follow me. Back for pet. Taught group and follow. Off we go. Rather I go. Pet did start to follow but quickly stopped. Sigh. Store pet and off I go west. Then on my overhead map a line of buildings appear and now I am in a forrest of buildings that went on for what seemed like forever. Finally I get past that wave of buildings and harvesters and such and I find a rock beatle lair with 2 lvl 15 creatures. Ah ha. I can begin testing.
Hop of the bike. Call the pet. Send in the pet. The target beatle turns red and starts spitting at me.
the pet sits there. (Oh I forgot to teach it kill) so why did the beatle know that k was the code word for kill? Since I am lvl 80 and the beatle is lvl 15 I quickly kill the beatle with a blast from my rifle. Teach the pet to attack. Next beatle. sent pet in with the k command. pet sits there. beatle starts attacking me.
why is that. Oh wait I remember seeing me shoot the beatle when I issued the k command. Check screen log. no K command in spatial. Oh great they changed that interface too. I have to hit return before I can speak in spatial. That should make things nice and confusing when commanding pets. Randomly attacking the wrong NPCs when trying to talk.
Now back to the combat. Ah another beatle. Sic pet on beatle. Pet lasted 1-2 sec. Well it was a
lvl 1 baby after all. Kill beatle which has now decided its all my fault. Love that hate system (NOT)
un incap the baby. group baby. baby now shows to be a lvl 80 monster. Shoot lair to shake out more beatles. Hello desktop.
Log back in. Baby still there. Bike still there. Target lair. Hello Desktop. Do full scan.
Log In. No baby No bike 2 beatles. Neither seem to remember me. Good. Call bike. wait 15, Call pet, wait 15, call rifle wait 1. Good that I don't have to wait for everything
Log in to WoW and enjoyed my evening.
-Indene-