Star Wars Galaxies: A joint question for CHs and BEs

In the Official Creature Handler forum Holocron adds more info for the Bio-engineer and the Creature handler professions and asks your opinions:

From the designers responsible for both:

Recently a change was made to prevent pets being transferred unless they knew the transfer command.

This negatively impacted bio-engineers, because suddenly they couldn't sell pets to anyone except accomplished creature handlers, unless they could find an accomplished creature-handler to train their pets for them. Selling an un-trained pet in deed form was possible, but once called, the buyer could never get it trained even by a creature-handler (because it wouldn't know the transfer command, it couldn't be transferred to the creature handler in order to be tamed).

So, we changed it back, but only for low-level, non-aggressive pets. Now those can be traded without knowing the transfer command. So a bio-engineer can make a pet, sell it, and the person can go find a creature handler to train it for them.

But having this apply to all (low level, non-aggressive) pets, whether they are bio-engineered or not, doesn't seem to be very popular with either the accomplished creature handlers, nor with the bio-engineers.

Before we make yet another change, we figured we'd better run it by the community:

What we're thinking is that we'll allow low-level, non-aggressive bio-engineered pets to be transfered even if they don't know the transfer command, but that 'natural' pets tamed by a creature-handler will need to know the transfer command in order to be traded.

Thoughts? Is this too confusing? Or should an un-trained bio-engineered pet only be transferable to a creature handler who is capable of teaching the transfer command?

-Raph Koster,
Creative Director

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