Milking

xacova

Taken from SOE   game play discussion

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/posts/list.m?topic_id=637655

perhaps the person is  serious  but soe had milking the player base for a long time!

Ollie77

Not really related but I do remember a very funny conversation when someone managed to milk a "bull" of some type, so very, very wrong but oh so funny.

Obraik

No, the person isn't joking.  You can milk creatures in the game, and even be able to since pretty much the begninng (I don't think it was in at launch tho).  There is now a collection associated with milking that once you finish, gives you a milk pump that improves your ability to milk.

SioBabble

 

Originally posted by Obraik


No, the person isn't joking.  You can milk creatures in the game, and even be able to since pretty much the begninng (I don't think it was in at launch tho).  There is now a collection associated with milking that once you finish, gives you a milk pump that improves your ability to milk.

Milking was introduced in Feb of 2004.  Eight months or so after launch.

There were always strange little things about milking, like how you can milk sharnaffs, fambaa, and gurrecks.  Sharnaffs and fambaa being obviously not mammals, for instance.  Gurrecks seem to be mammals, though...but cats...

Supposedly the rule of thumb was if the creature yielded herbivore meat, it would be milkable, but seeing as sharnaffs and gurrecks are carnivore meat critters, the rule wasn't strictly adhered to.

monoth

Originally posted by SioBabble


 
Originally posted by Obraik


No, the person isn't joking.  You can milk creatures in the game, and even be able to since pretty much the begninng (I don't think it was in at launch tho).  There is now a collection associated with milking that once you finish, gives you a milk pump that improves your ability to milk.

Milking was introduced in Feb of 2004.  Eight months or so after launch.

There were always strange little things about milking, like how you can milk sharnaffs, fambaa, and gurrecks.  Sharnaffs and fambaa being obviously not mammals, for instance.  Gurrecks seem to be mammals, though...but cats...

Supposedly the rule of thumb was if the creature yielded herbivore meat, it would be milkable, but seeing as sharnaffs and gurrecks are carnivore meat critters, the rule wasn't strictly adhered to.

Milk itself was in the game from the beginning but it was a very rare loot drop.. It was used in bio-engineering to make high end tissues... several months later they added the ability to get milk from certain animals..

Daffid011

Chefs also had recipes that called for milk, but it was near impossible to get.  In the first year of the game, the only known source of milk was out of some chest/lockers that spawned in static locations of the world.  Even them if you happened to get lucky and some milk did spawn in a chest, it usually wasn't enough to make a recipe.  If I recall right milk had numeric qualities just like all other resources in that game and they changed every several days just like everything else so you couldn't just collect milk over months since it all needed to be the same exact stuff to make a recipe.

Every few weeks one lucky chef would post on the chef forums with the description of what a milk recipes would make.  Yes it was that scarce that across 25 servers there wasn't enough milk to even try certain recipes.

 

Chef was bugged so far beyond belief.

smg77

A milk collection? Seriously?

What won't they turn into a collection?

Sam123jo0123

It's hard to say ATM, it depends what the playerbase doesn't want.

iwantmyswg

wow

can the dev's come up with anymore lame ideas? and you fanbois claim the game isn't going to die.

Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by iwantmyswg


wow
can the dev's come up with anymore lame ideas? and you fanbois claim the game isn't going to die.

Back to your bridge, troll.

smg77

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by iwantmyswg


wow
can the dev's come up with anymore lame ideas? and you fanbois claim the game isn't going to die.

Back to your bridge, troll.

Maybe he's working on his forum troll collection.

Suvroc

Originally posted by smg77

Originally posted by Sam123jo0123

Originally posted by iwantmyswg


wow
can the dev's come up with anymore lame ideas? and you fanbois claim the game isn't going to die.

Back to your bridge, troll.

Maybe he's working on his forum troll collection.

Ok now that was funny!  : )

SkeeSkee

Collections: SOE's way of turning what should be simple hot fixes into annoying pointless grinding and calling it "new content". 

Plasuma!!!

They have collection sets in EQ2, why not grab it from there and paste it on SWG?

Easy "new content", I think.

The 'milk collection' thing is probably a sick joke on the devs' part: "collect milk while we milk you!"

SioBabble

Originally posted by Daffid011


Chefs also had recipes that called for milk, but it was near impossible to get.  In the first year of the game, the only known source of milk was out of some chest/lockers that spawned in static locations of the world.  Even them if you happened to get lucky and some milk did spawn in a chest, it usually wasn't enough to make a recipe.  If I recall right milk had numeric qualities just like all other resources in that game and they changed every several days just like everything else so you couldn't just collect milk over months since it all needed to be the same exact stuff to make a recipe.
Every few weeks one lucky chef would post on the chef forums with the description of what a milk recipes would make.  Yes it was that scarce that across 25 servers there wasn't enough milk to even try certain recipes.
 
Chef was bugged so far beyond belief.

Yeah, I didn't start working on my chef until well after milking made milk no longer an impossibly rare loot drop, so I missed those days, and all that frustration.

It's amazing how many things were fundamentally broken in the first year of SWG, all because it was rushed online because the MBAs at SOE and LA needed their ROI right this damn second.

monoth

I don't know if this was the case with Chief, but with Bio-Engineer the few recipes that used milk were pretty ubber stat wise.. rareness=ubber stats... When milk became common place the ubber tissues became watered down...

Same thing with Jedi, when the game first released Jedi were ubber because of permadeath, but as the developers kept making it easier to become a Jedi they kepted watering them down... 

Personally I preferred rareness=ubber stats vs. common=weak stats...

But to each there own....

viza

No this was for real. Sabatho (chef) in our guild used to get us to all help him get milk for drinks and stuff which was not much to ask for since he supplied us with everything we needed back then.

 

You had to walk up to the mobs and hope they didn't start moving when you were milking them ROFL. I think you had to milk stuff to level scout too. That was a while ago so my memory is fuzzy lol.

I remember milking some very strange things.

Good times...

Sab is a very convincing case for the old game. He was a master chef and master pikeman back then. One of the best chefs on the server, and also very deadly with 600 per tick mind fire lances. Not terribly effective against jedi knights solo, but very effective over all. He had a wicked tank. A great example of how you could mold the game to your game play style and get out of it what you put into it.

You can't have a viable combat character with crafting skills now.

 

 

-Viz

Viza - Chilastra, Kammris - Chilastra

DarthRaiden

Originally posted by Plasuma!!!


They have collection sets in EQ2, why not grab it from there and paste it on SWG?
Easy "new content", I think.
The 'milk collection' thing is probably a sick joke on the devs' part: "collect milk while we milk you!"

my first thought reading the subject ...

Milky

If they would only add all the types of things featured in this game, like milking, in a fantasy setting I would be sold.