Shattered Kingdoms

Not sure I know why exactly a lag was introduced to this skill, maybe it was to give some sort of downtime for a scout to re-arm in the event of a failed PK, I don't know, but damn man, was research done on this before the go ahead? I mean, go out there and tame something with a level 50 character D, just do it, go on, please? I'll put a pizza in the oven, tell me when you are done, there might be a slice left over by then.

Seriously, the lag is fine if the skill itself is given other tweaks, like a (way) higher success rate. You have no idea if the pet is even tamable at your level, or if at all, game doesn't tell you, so you have to sit there wondering if the next one is going to do the trick, even when there was no lag it sometimes took me one hundred (100, No, this is not hyperbolic, I counted, it sucked) tame attempts to get the damn thing to rub against my hairy leg. Sometimes you summon another guy's pet, and you have no way of knowing, the game won't tell you, unless he's in the same room, you could be trying to tame the pet you just know you tamed before forever.

Hard code that when you try like 15 times then the pet HAS to be tamed if he is of the right level, you might hit a super lucky critical and tame him from the first try, who knows! But definitely cap dat [REDACTED], or something.

If it's already tamed by someone else, the game does tell you. You get the "He already has a special friend" message, which in and of itself is a bit creepy sounding but whatev.

People have been asking for improvement on this aspect of tame forever. I agree it should probably be more visible if the animal can be tamed, or just calmed. Given that there's currently no difference in the messages, and know predictable way to know when tame will be successful, it can lead to scouts spamming tame at a new potential pet for ages just trying to discover if they'll eventually get the thing to rub against them.

It's a wonder the skill hasn't been "Fixed" for all the years it existed on SK. Now Dulrik added a delay? Wow....

The skill needs to be split into two other skills. Tame and Calm. One for acquiring a pet and one for stopping an animal from attacking you. Though essentially both can have the same reaction on a fail, causing said creature to start taking chunks from you. And it would be nice to add a message to tame saying "YOU CAN'T TAME ME!" instead of spending 10 minutes trying to figure it out. But from seeing in other posts, Scouts look to be losing favor in the value department, so I guess it doesn't matter.

It's true, I do avoid messing with this skill. One of these days I'll force myself into doing a rewrite.

.....at least he's honest about it lol.

I think this is a great idea.

Calm? Pshh.

Tranquilize! Shoot them things with blow dart guns to calm em down. In addition to said calming effect, you can use it in battle to try to apply a songs of sleep type effect on another scout's pet.

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If I made a MUD, it would suck.

Yea, the skill is freaking insane. I've spent thirty minutes being a Gm, trying to tame something that I know is capable of being under my (Sp voice) authority. Is there no simple fix to bumping up the success rate? I would love to see people taming some new stronger pets, but as whats his face said, unless you have all day to sit at your keyboard, it's not likely you'll see that pet tamed.

If D doesn't want to address it, should at least just remove the lag again. I don't think the current implementation really helped anything.

So D, any timeline when the update will be live? ppppppplease?