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Thread: Pet Damage and CH Only Mount ideas....
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DaxionRai
Tue Apr 06, 2004 7:05 am
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I'm about half way through Creature Handler 2/2/1/2 and have been thinking about ways to enhance our profession without throwing the balance further out of whack than it already is. I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but I thinkCreature damage should scale up beyond their normal abilities as you gain levels through the CH skill tree. So if I get a Crimson Razor cat that does 305-320 when full grown, perhaps I could get up to a 30-40% damage increase the more I use him/her in battle (battle being the key word so you cant get it by just leaving it in the data pad). I think BEarmor would be nice for certain classes of beast as well, Imagine a Greater Sludge Panther with armor (Similar He-Man's to Battle Cat) or something to that effect. I also would like to see higher level creatures mountable like a Grand Wrix or Rancor (at Master CH level), perhaps even allowing CH to obtain faster speeds from their mounts as well.It's not an end all be all solution to CH woes but I think it would spruce up the prefession and make us for viable in battle and more unique having mounts only we could use.
I hope my suggestions arent redundant of something someone has posted, if so I apologize in advance.
Mori-Mori
Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:40 am
#2
if armorsmiths can make armor for wookiees, they really should be able to make it for the other animals as well!
Any of these ideas would make CH alot more fun. Some of them aren't all that crazy!
CHs should be able to ride their big combat pet, and they should be able to keep up with their groupmate's speederbikes. Powerful mounts need a long distance sprint that beats gallop. There would have to be some restrictions, similar to vehicles, like no combat when going speeder-speed. Oh, duh. That's in the game already=easy programming for our new fast pets. I know it's a tad silly, but it would make CHs feel alot more useful--no more "wait guys. I gotta pull out my pet verrry slowly before we fight. When my guildmates see me ready to go to our destination with my pet(s) out instead of a speederbike, I KNOW they're rolling their eyes, wondering why I don't catch up with the modern times.
Heck, make it a BE implant that we can purchase for huge $$$ and add to a pet. Even "Pet Powerups"....something.
Any of these ideas would make CH alot more fun. Some of them aren't all that crazy!
CHs should be able to ride their big combat pet, and they should be able to keep up with their groupmate's speederbikes. Powerful mounts need a long distance sprint that beats gallop. There would have to be some restrictions, similar to vehicles, like no combat when going speeder-speed. Oh, duh. That's in the game already=easy programming for our new fast pets. I know it's a tad silly, but it would make CHs feel alot more useful--no more "wait guys. I gotta pull out my pet verrry slowly before we fight. When my guildmates see me ready to go to our destination with my pet(s) out instead of a speederbike, I KNOW they're rolling their eyes, wondering why I don't catch up with the modern times.
Heck, make it a BE implant that we can purchase for huge $$$ and add to a pet. Even "Pet Powerups"....something.
Yvile
Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:55 am
#3
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if armorsmiths can make armor for wookiees, they really should be able to make it for the other animals as well!
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Ouch! :-)
For the sake of argument, mounts should not be a comparible speed to vehiicles. Everyone complained about this being PetWars instead of Star Wars, and you want to go back? Mounts in Star Wars were only really used by the less technically-inclined (i.e. "backwater") planets and cultures. Granted you don't have to constantly repair a mount but break down and get a vehicle. It makes anything but random resource harvesting so much easier.
I almost wish there was some way to "level up" your pets and droids. It would give us an invested interest in keeping pets rather than recycling them and it might lead to some variation. Plus with some luck it might reduce complaints of pets sucking if there was some hope that they'd actually get better. And you could do similiar things for other pet-types, like droids. Though they'd have to watch the balancing factor.
hueyboy
Tue Apr 06, 2004 8:58 am
#4
/cheer for pet armor, but have the Tailors make it, like battle padding. With the introduction of that awesome Wookiee armor, the Smithy's are getting even richer and the Tailors are losing a large customer base.
Shomori
Teras Kasi Master/Master Creature Handler
DaxionRai
Tue Apr 06, 2004 9:05 am
#5
Yeah I was thinking more along Hueys lines, where pet armor is more natural like leatheror thickhide armor. Perhaps something similar to what horses used to have in midevil times. I havent really expressed this but I was thinking vehicles should require fuel as well as maintenence, reason being this would give incentive for people to use mounts instead as costs of vehicles would be slightly more to maintain and mounts would be a more economical option. This would also cut back on people just leaving their bikes parked in a city for hours (would burn too much fuel). I think increased mount speed wouldnt be bad, it wouldnt be maintained and I was thinking only high lvl CHs could have this perk.
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