Sample HAM based on donar HAM

[Lantyssa]

I did some testing today after noticing some patterns in my DNA sampling. These were my [url=http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=bio-engineer&message.id=73204]results[/url].

To summerize, your DNA sample's hardiness, dexterity and intellect, which determine the final pet HAM, correspond to the sampled creature's HAM with only a little random variation. This has two important effects:

1) In a group of creatures, sample those whose HAM matches what you want in your final pet first. If you want health to be much greater than mind, don't sample from the one whose mind is much greater than health.

2) If you enter DNA into the database, you only need to enter [i:f1f20b1a96]one[/i:f1f20b1a96] sample in any given category (VHQ, HQ, AA, etc.), else you are weighting that entire category towards that specific creature's stats. Samples from multiiple creatures are even more important to acquire and enter so that things average out.

[vvedge]

good to know but i'm afraid that 1/2 if not 3/4 of all my entries fall in the [i:a423a56652]'else you are weighting that entire category towards that specific creature's stats'[/i:a423a56652] range, I used to sample each creature to death and enter every sample I have...
Sure I will only enter one from now...

[Lantyssa]

I know, but the work is still appreciated. (I did this a lot myself. Oh well.)