Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Creature Handler More than combat?
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Jenky
Fri May 21, 2004 6:39 am
#1
I remember when i first heard about SWG on E3 2001.
I remember the very first time, i logged into the old forums, and asked three questions:
1)If you can eat food and drink stuff, then can you poo and pee?
2)when will it be released?
3)can i be a jedi?
After.. That... I was told... There would only be very few jedis.. they would always be in hiding and mainly work as a newbie helper class... when you would die you would turn into a glowie jedi ghost like yoda and ben kenobi in the old movies..
So I started to looking at other things - And CH sounded so cool..
Though the end result when the game was released was insane numbers of CHs who were so powerful.. Nothing could make me more mad than an stupid dude running in coronet with 3 rancors... They were suposed to be rare and SWG had turned into Pokemon galaxies
After the nef though they became almost useless..
But I have always been dissapointed about the final resluts of CH! I remember in the beta FAQs, the devs road stuff like that pets would be able to be real pets who could be a usefull side kick or a pet you could have walking around in your house..
And the find and tame idea is one of the best and most fun things to do in this game, if you ask me!!!
I would wish that CH would get more abillities with their pets. more social and non fighting skills.. So it feels like it has more content...
droids should be the usefull pets who can do many things and objectives for players while pets, should be like real pets..
Im no CH right now... But that does not mean that I would not love to have a pet... stuff like durni and Beard jax are really cute looking pets. with the special tricks they are also fun to watch... But they are totally useless.. and does not have much life... yes... they can follow you and do a few things but thats about it..
I would wish that i could place a little CL 10 level pet in my house and it would walk around like it was living in it
I would wish that MCH could train a pet so a CH had a special BIO you could write in it.... it should work like a normal Bio.. when your examine a player.. Imagine a CH who could write down where he caught this pet.. or role players who could write long stories about their pets, or BEs who could write usefull information about the pets that have been made for newbie players or people who dont got a clue about creatures...
I would wish that there were female and male variations of all tameables, even if it would just be nothing that would effect the game, it would at least feel like that there are more creatures...
And i would wish that mounts could have extra storage place. imagine a Weaponsmith out checking his harvesters, who would use his dewback mount to put his extra resources in.. or a ranger using it for putting lots of dffferent types of hide..
I would wish that tailors could craft clothes for Pets...
And i would wish that CHs could do special quests where they could obtain a rare pet, or maybe a pet title a MCH could put over a pet like.. "mans best friend" or .. "lethel hunter pet":.. Or something...
CH is such a cool proffesion... In theory.. I think that scout tree and CH should be much much more than combat!!
Im not trying to brag on CH or saying that Combat pets should not exsist.. just that there would be added much more than combat to CH
-Jenky
eXcali1979
Fri May 21, 2004 7:00 am
#2
Jenky wrote:I would wish that tailors could craft clothes for Pets...-Jenky
OMG I was with your for a little bit of your post... but how about NO!!! This isn't PetSmart Galaxies...
I would like to see some changes to CH.. but mainly combat related... I for one don't care about PVP attributes of CH, in most MMORPG games the ability to use animals in PVP is little more than a diversion tactic.
I do find it rediculas that I can take a CL 33 Gurreck with 560-590 damage and it do little to no damage against it's targets, and rely totally on me for taking out the target before it incaps!
Maybe we should petition CH name be changed to Meat Shield Handling....
Jenky
Fri May 21, 2004 7:28 am
#3
Hmmmm.. I just mean. At least clothes would make some of the pets feel differently..
A rancor is so boring and generic... all pets in SWG are, because they all look the same... nothing uniqe or anything
Some visual changes would help IMO....
even if it was just toning in colors, or mutated limbs attached to a Kimos back, or something...
BlindTyldak
Fri May 21, 2004 7:30 am
#4
Actually, clothes for pets are completely within the SWU . . . especially when you think in terms of pet armor. But there's also a huge book on SW wildlife that goes into detail about how tamed pets are treated on various worlds, and elaborate decorations and even some clothing is completely normal.
I think what screwed up CH from the get-go was not making it an elite class like BH. If you essentially could be only a CH and have just a little bit of room to tinker with one other thing, we could have kept our useful pets and idiots who took what they could so they could be teh uber with their two graul maulers and their flamethrower or whatever the hell it was wouldn't have ruined it for us.
~~The Secondhand Lion
eXcali1979
Fri May 21, 2004 8:57 am
#5
I like the idea of Armor and Pigment coloring! Maybe make it like Weapon and Armor Powerups! You set Pet color via a menu like you would for your armor. You drag and drop your armor powerups over your pet.. or even have powerup menu like the recharge menu for droids!!
eXcali1979
Fri May 21, 2004 9:02 am
#6
Maybe even make some of the Armor only decorative for use in domesticated animals!
CSR should love this idea because it would create another way for the credit horders
to give up some of that cash!
Make it craftable by Armorsmiths and similar to the current armor! But with a much higher decay rate...
CSR should love this idea because it would create another way for the credit horders
to give up some of that cash!
Make it craftable by Armorsmiths and similar to the current armor! But with a much higher decay rate...
blastcypher
Fri May 21, 2004 10:04 am
#7
So I started to looking at other things - And CH sounded so cool..
Though the end result when the game was released was insane numbers of CHs who were so powerful.. Nothing could make me more mad than an stupid dude running in coronet with 3 rancors... They were suposed to be rare and SWG had turned into Pokemon galaxies
After the nef though they became almost useless..
-Jenky
THAT DUDE THAT UR TALKING ABOUT MADE ME WANT TO BE A CREATURE HANDLER... POKEMON COMMENTS MAKE ME SICK. NO OFFENSE TO YOU AT ALL.
I'M WITH YOU ON ONE POINT NOW THAT NERF CRIERS GOT WHAT THEY WANTED: CONTENT.
WE NEED MORE CH CONTENT...
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