Creature Handler Archive
Thread: so vert, ARE all pets going to be generic now?
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Ekaw
Tue Apr 19, 2005 9:10 am
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are they going to lose ALL of their character, plague strike, etc etc? Is a lantern bird gonna be as powerful as my BE rancor post curb?
Aakhperkare
Tue Apr 19, 2005 1:03 pm
#2
What I want to know is what was the purpose of all that feedback we gave to you for oh....about a year. Seems like it was a complete waste of time to me...
theorb22
Tue Apr 19, 2005 2:07 pm
#3
I don't think any of the correspondents are responsible for all the real CU data that got thrown out, I was reading in the ranger forums, and both the scout and ranger corr said that these were not the notes they agreed upon at the austin summit, and then went on about how lousythis CUwas 
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.Message Edited by theorb22 on 04-19-2005 02:07 PM
jopenack
Tue Apr 19, 2005 4:59 pm
#4
Theorb
Iagree its not they're fault that they were basically betrayed. What amazes me is how often it happens here.
And the loyalty the powers that be get from people is truely astounding, yeamay be a minority of loyal follows but the hero worship for red names and soeafter they blatantly lie is well disgusting.
I will say although its no cor's fault I hope behind the scenes where the nda has no power they are speaking they're minds and being honest enough to tell them "this was not how it was supposed to be" and maybe even give em alittle grief in the process lol.
Vertexon
Tue Apr 19, 2005 5:00 pm
#5
I'm at work during the day, so if you post something at 9:00 am you shouldn't expect me to respond within three hours. 
But to answer your question, I don't know. I hope not.
But to answer your question, I don't know. I hope not.
JCooper2
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:00 pm
#6
It would be a sad day if all pets everywhere were generic 
I really hope this is not the case...does not make since...
Would only need to tame 1 type of pet period !
Would only need to dna sample 1 type of pet period !
Would only need 1 pet period !
No reason to have the scout or ranger bonuses to creature knowledge period !
swgcreatures.com can shut down period !
It goes on and on period !
Joker9125
Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:17 pm
#7
I hope this dosent happen but I dont have just a whole lot of faith in the devs ability to do anything but that in the time they have left to finish the CU.
Nell2ThaIzzay
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:12 pm
#8
I'm not testing, but from what I've heard of those who have tested, with creature stats I've seen, and the group level situation, it seems that creatures are going to be generic, and their abilities will be based solely on the abilities of the Creature Handler controlling the pet.
It's because of this that I haven't even been logging on to the game for the past few days. It's like "Yea, I could go out hunting, tame some new creatures that are on my list of creatures I wanna find, but in the end, why? In a couple weeks, it'll all have been a waste".
The CU makes me sad, angry, and any emotion that is not a happy or content one. If I didn't have X-Men Legends, I'd be an emotional wreck.
zolari
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:33 pm
#9
Nell2ThaIzzay wrote:
I'm not testing, but from what I've heard of those who have tested, with creature stats I've seen, and the group level situation, it seems that creatures are going to be generic, and their abilities will be based solely on the abilities of the Creature Handler controlling the pet.
It's because of this that I haven't even been logging on to the game for the past few days. It's like "Yea, I could go out hunting, tame some new creatures that are on my list of creatures I wanna find, but in the end, why? In a couple weeks, it'll all have been a waste".
The CU makes me sad, angry, and any emotion that is not a happy or content one. If I didn't have X-Men Legends, I'd be an emotional wreck.
never much of a ch myself, i tried it, but i envy you all. you all get screwed but love and enjoy doing things most people forget like taming new creatures.
im so sorry they are even killing that for you now and killing the game period
SiberianPenguin
Tue Apr 19, 2005 11:58 pm
#10
What annoys me most as a CH, is when people treat me as if im " at their service "
i get tells saying "tame me a pet " " teach me pet" " make my pet into a mount " and when i tell them i dont have the skill to teach mount, they'd say " o, well gimme a tell when you can "
dunno bout you guys but stuff like this gets on my ever living nerves. i could help solve this by not wearing novice CH tag, but im proud to be one of the few people that can stand this proffesion anymore lol despite all thats happening to it.
We're a pretty cool group if u ask me 
( as long as you get us on our good side )
( as long as you get us on our good side )
MechaWashu
Wed Apr 20, 2005 1:44 am
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Ekaw wrote:are they going to lose ALL of their character, plague strike, etc etc? Is a lantern bird gonna be as powerful as my BE rancor post curb?
Having done a fair ammount of testing myself, I'll provide all the info I've gathered, i think it will anwser your question.
As of Now on TC-EP3 ALL wild creatures (even after the've been tamed) have no resists and no specials. Also once you tame them they have no HAM bars at all, and from what I can see are invulnrable.
This pretty much has to be an area they have yet to fix, and will change soon.
When they moved Chilly to TC-3 I logged in and checked out my pets (for the VERY short time it was up)
All of the pets i had tamed still had no resists and no specials.
HOWEVER the BE pets retained their resits and specials.
Also, the BE pets that contained light armor when called said that they contained ileagle atrabutes and needed to be ballenced.
I was given 2 options:
a) balence the stats of the pet (IE change the stats in line with it's current level)
2) balence the level of the pet (IE bring the level up to be in line with the current stats)
Choosing option 2 always resulted in a level 125+ pet that could not be called and retained it's origional stats and armor.
Choosing option a resulted in the aromor being removed and the ststs of the pets being put in line with the CU.
While using option a did lower the HAM of my gurcat, It's resists went up signifigantly. When i ballenced my level 45 Kimo It actually gained HAM as well as having improved resists.
indacating that the species of the pet does in fact play into it's sats and abilites.
Meaning that pets will still be unique, if not more uniquw after the CU.
The current generic pets are just a result of that part of the game not having been worked on yet.
I'm sory that was so long, but i hope it helps clear things up and ease peoples fears some.
jopenack
Wed Apr 20, 2005 4:48 am
#13
Joker I pulled this from the dev-tracker
RSQViper wrote:
TH, What planets do you want us on? Last I heard not all planets were balanced.
TH Wrote
You shouldn't have any planet specific imbalances. The planet you choose should be a comparison of your Combat Level and the Creature/NPCs level. As it is on live, Corellia, Naboo andTatooine are great spots for newer players. Talus and Rori are great mid level spots and the rest of the planets will be more of a mixed bag from medium to high levels.
If you can, please letus know what your solo results are. There have been quite a few solid comments on soloists not being able to engage white cons and we would like to balance them a little better for solo play.
We also need the groups and white con feedback, but so far that seems to be closer to the target challenge/risk factor than solo play.
Kurt "Thunderheart" Stangl
Community Relations Manager
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