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Romanticizing the Bio Engineer
Niksen
Member Posts: 66
Inspired by the wonderfull Romanticizing the Ranger article.
I was BE/Rifle allmost all my time in SWG. with an alt. as shopkeeper.
There were so many aspects in beeing BE.
The most wonderfully complex crafting system, granted with bugs, but that somehow was part of the charm and great business potential.
I would head out to Endoor or Dathomir, sneaking around trying to sample DNA. As BE you don't have Camoflage but have to rely on /maskscent which works as camuflage but is alot less effective. So sneaking up to within 15m to sample on a rancor could take alot of patience and nerves of steel. Any company would increase change of detect. Amour would prohibit affective sampling (soo scary)
I would usually have a bunch of orders for high pets, and so with the bag full of dna, go home to a +25 craft station and hope for some good results. A high pet could be sold for a few 100k.
The real money though was in chef and tailor products. to make good tissues you needed LOADS of top notch flora and meat in PE, OQ and hmm forgot the last stat. just abit below top would half the selling price. On the other hand you could make loads of money because few serious BEs were around.
At the height of my business i ran with a buddy, i could place 60 heavy flora harveys when some spawn appeared. Usually it was a race to place first because the really good spawns only appeared so not too many harveys could be placed.
The really great thing about running this business was all the dependencies. I relied heavily on hunters and people i rented lots from. Also we were a group of flora-needers who surveyed the planets twice a week. Hackling meat prices with hunters was the most challenging part.
A bunch of us BEs would meet up in a house in the naboo mountains, exchanging recepies on great pets, bragging about which ressources we had in stock telling about samplng scary beasts etc. and so SWG was a very social experience...until that iconic shit came around and my beloved BE was gone.
to those guys who thought up the BE proffesion
Oh those days...
brgds Nicolai
I was BE/Rifle allmost all my time in SWG. with an alt. as shopkeeper.
There were so many aspects in beeing BE.
The most wonderfully complex crafting system, granted with bugs, but that somehow was part of the charm and great business potential.
I would head out to Endoor or Dathomir, sneaking around trying to sample DNA. As BE you don't have Camoflage but have to rely on /maskscent which works as camuflage but is alot less effective. So sneaking up to within 15m to sample on a rancor could take alot of patience and nerves of steel. Any company would increase change of detect. Amour would prohibit affective sampling (soo scary)
I would usually have a bunch of orders for high pets, and so with the bag full of dna, go home to a +25 craft station and hope for some good results. A high pet could be sold for a few 100k.
The real money though was in chef and tailor products. to make good tissues you needed LOADS of top notch flora and meat in PE, OQ and hmm forgot the last stat. just abit below top would half the selling price. On the other hand you could make loads of money because few serious BEs were around.
At the height of my business i ran with a buddy, i could place 60 heavy flora harveys when some spawn appeared. Usually it was a race to place first because the really good spawns only appeared so not too many harveys could be placed.
The really great thing about running this business was all the dependencies. I relied heavily on hunters and people i rented lots from. Also we were a group of flora-needers who surveyed the planets twice a week. Hackling meat prices with hunters was the most challenging part.
A bunch of us BEs would meet up in a house in the naboo mountains, exchanging recepies on great pets, bragging about which ressources we had in stock telling about samplng scary beasts etc. and so SWG was a very social experience...until that iconic shit came around and my beloved BE was gone.
to those guys who thought up the BE proffesionOh those days...
brgds Nicolai
Comments
I've never played SWG but reading stuff like this makes me realize just how tragic a thing it has become..
Have played:
UO, WOW, COH/V, EQ2
Currently playing:
Age of Conan (EU)
"Hurray, finally a game where I can fulfill my lifelong dream of taking emotionally dead women and finding the most financially viable means to exploit their bodies with the ultimate goal of making them Hugh Hefner's personal furniture."
The BE/CH was also the subject of the lone Star Wars novel set within the SWG universe, "The Ruins of Dantooine".
Very ironic, isn't it?