Development Cycle Archive

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Regal wrote:

Oh, and I specifically said, "I don't want to see any Bantha's running around as creature mounts. These foolish children will be riding them on Corellia, Talus, and other planets where the poor Bantha's are completely un-suited to survive. Besides, when was the last time you saw a Bantha in Coronet? NEVER!"

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Not true.

I sold a bantha to a guy outside the Coronet starport just the other day.

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BlindTyldak wrote:

Note, they NEVER said that non-CH"s would be able to ride ALL mounts, they said that they would be able to ride mounts.

~~Shabhaii of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please, rest your sphincters!"

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Go and read the stratics interview, as well as the livechat that Holo and Q did. All of these mounts will be Non-CH rideable after being tamed by a CH.

BEs aren't currently unable to sample DNA. I'm sampling just fine. Last night I made a kahmurra for a friend, and put a dewback in storage for later sale. But for those wondering about the bol, yes, they are BE creatures.

"Bols don't have babies that I've ever seen. I think they're only BE craftable, which will make them rare as BEs are currently unable to sample DNA."

Not entirely true. We can sample...we just get attacked EVERY time (or often enough as makes no difference). *chuckle* A lot of us have settled for sampling low level critters (yard trash) and using the junk DNA from them to make critters.

I don't think this will be an issue when mounts come out, however, as the dev in charge of BE's is currently looking into this particular problem (so sayeth Holo). This SHOULD be fixed within the next week or so (I hope!).

Whups...sorry to hijack. Umm...I want to ride on Mountain Dew (http://www.exercises-in-futility.com/static/images/mountaindew2.jpg). That is all.

Regal, while I disagree with his rant, does make an interesting point. Due to climatic differences between the planets, does it seem reasonable that a bantha or a dewback would be able to function properly on Naboo, or that a carrion spat would be able to function properly on Lok? In general, animals seem less able to adapt to new climates. While Hoth doesn't exist, let me use a sled dog as an example. They overheat at temperatures over 30 degrees. They're more comfortable in the teens. I can't imagine how a bantha would manage on a told, rainy planet.

I guess this doesn't really have anything to do with the game, other than to muse over the possibility of a creature not performing quite as well in a significantly different environment from that in which it was raised.

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AreciboAris wrote:

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BlindTyldak wrote:

Note, they NEVER said that non-CH"s would be able to ride ALL mounts, they said that they would be able to ride mounts.

~~Shabhaii of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please, rest your sphincters!"

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Go and read the stratics interview, as well as the livechat that Holo and Q did. All of these mounts will be Non-CH rideable after being tamed by a CH.

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I have. As a matter of fact, our PA boards had the transcript of the live chat up pretty much before anyone else. In either one, please point out to me where precicely they say thatALL mounts will be ridable by non-CH's.

~~Shabhaii, Mayor of Tombra, Naboo
www.cityoftombra.com
The REAL BT
"Gentlemen, gentlemen! Please, rest your sphincters!"

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Q-3PO wrote:

We have a very large team and can work towards that.

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If that were so you could have fixed many proffesions that are still broken (i.e. carbineers) long ago.

Bol's have medium armor. Anything with higher than light was taken out of being able to tame. (That's why bioengineer's bols can't be tamed, as there are no babies in the wild)

I'm courious as to how they'll implement that as well. Perhaps they'll have "tame" but only "mount" as an ability to train. No attack, etc.

Calimir

So this where all the time has been going too. Should expect the next lump of time to go to fixing the classes that still do not work correctly?

banthas are slow...

ok, i see a lot of complaining about no banthas / red-tauntans (hehe) on one hand... quitchabitchin! on the other hand, the reason were complaining is because we really love the game, and want it to be as cool as posible, as soon as posible. were impatient because we know how much fun its going to be to ride around on our own swoop bikes and banthas!

on that note wrixes must be mountable! i mean, it doesnt get any better than riding around on a huge tusked lion / tiger / thingie. i have actualy had dreams about riding through the planes of corellia on my wrix, and it was **edit** cool!

give us our cats! or i promis you i will cry about it....realy....... a lot......... no joke........

I'd really like to see some of the cat-types as future mounts also... but the major issue with this I think is that the servers can't handle players going at their speed.. it would be really laggy and desynced.. would probably need to be lowereda bit when they're used for travel.

Just curious as to whether you remembered that you have a Bio-engineer profession when doing mounts. Are all of these going to be able to be made by Bio-engineers? Are creatures tamed from the wild also going to be usable as mounts? Will there be any difference in the two?