Should Taming include.....

Me and a few of my tribe's members have discussed this a few times and I wanted to make a concrete suggestion for it.

So, everyone knows we'll be able to tame animals. This includes coyotes, wolves, bears, etc etc. What if we were able to set our tamed animals on patrol as "guards"? With this enabled, you should be able to set a "who to attack" option, including things such as alignment (Good/Neutral/Evil), other animals, etc. This would eliminate (at the least, reduce) the need for NPC guards for your city/homestead. I imagine the way it would work would be this (not exact, just a rough idea... gonna just type as my ideas come into my head):

Go up to your pen of wolves/coyotes. Right click on a tamed coyote and click the Patrol tab. In this window, click "Set patrol route". You would then run where you want your coyotes to patrol and come back to within 5m of where you started. Once you are within 5m of the starting point, you right click the coyote again, go into the patrol window, and hit "Finish Patrol Route" (the game wouldn't let you finish the route unless you were within the 5m zone). Now, they wouldn't follow the exact line of where you ran. Instead, they would realistically follow the line but be able to vary off of it slightly. I would hope you would also be able to set patrol "groups" so that you can have a pack of coyotes patrol together instead of each being independent. Maybe in this patrol window you could have set groups of patrols (be able to name them, i.e. South Gate / North Gate / etc) where you can then add the current selected coyote to the patrol group. Let's say that you already have a 4-coyote pack patrolling your North Gate and you want to add another coyote to the pack. You'd have to go into the patrol window, find the North Gate Patrol group, click "Return To Start" so they wait at the starting location. Then, having the new 5th coyote selected, click something like "Add Selected Animal to Group". The game should not let you add an animal to a group unless you tell it to follow you, you are within 5m of the starting point, and the rest of that group is within 5m of the starting point. Once you click Add To Group, it then joins the group. To set this now 5-coyote pack on patrol, you could go into the patrol window, find that group, and click "Patrol Route". Also, you should have options for free-roaming patrol and stationary patrol. Free-roam patrol mode would tell the animal/group to freely wander around your territory and patrol as normal. Stationary patrol (I guess this would be called Guard Mode or something similar) would essentially have the group/animal stay put and guard a single spot. If they are put on stationary patrol, they shouldn't stand exactly still and should at least walk around a little bit (not too far, obviously) to make it more realistic.

I love it, but I thought each person could only tame one pet?

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Originally Posted by CoolDude1240

I love it, but I thought each person could only tame one pet?

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we are going to be able to have multiple pets, what was stated was that if they couldn't get the feature in - that we would at least be able to tame 1 to start.

Good, idea and would help with the random nomads would-be trying to encroach on your resources. Only downside is that each tribal area is pretty close together. The ability to set it as a guard unit should require very very high taming so its not abused.

I agree with Shaggy 100%, having 1 animal would be pretty cool, like a log carrying mule to help bring the long logs back from further away, however I think it'd be even cooler to be able to tame like 4-5 mules or horses to bring back a whole trees worth of logs.

Even during the 2 week beta event, it took on average about 10 minutes to bring back a long log because the trees were so far away. T.T

Also /signed :-p

I like the idea of having personal pets as well as "pets" that will patrol your tribe's territories. I'd like to be able to tame a small wolf, name it, and have it be my pet until it lives through the rest of it's days.

I'd like to see a dog that you could tell to patrol a set route let alone a bear. I think a simple command to roam the tribal land attacking who you set them to attack sounds better and more realistic.

love the idea, but patrol routes sound a little bit over the top.
Simply having a "guard"-option would be fine with me.

good suggestion.

i think if they do patrol they must have a handler(possibly npc guard?) that they would follow, but guard options shouldn't require much

The only thing I worry about taming is that the pvp of the game turns out to be a "pet fest". This is especially with people being able to tame more than one pet, and even "stable" pets.

Each person has say 3 tamed grizzlie bears and simply go into pvp and say "attack this person". Tamer stands back and does nothing, no skill, no talent, just pure reward for grinding his ass off talking to animals. Add 5+ more tribal members with him and thats quite a few more animals added to the fray. I could easily see this being exploited and grievers REALLY making everyone cry by walking up to a city, sending in the clowns, PLAYER VS PLAYER DAMAGE is turned off in city, but no NON PLAYER CHARACTER damage option to turn off...see where im going with this?

Im incredibly optimistic about taming and hope it is implemented. Horses obviously need to be tamed for riding/mounted combat/transporting, others like dogs/coyotes for hunting/tracking, hell maybe even bears...but it could really make the game annoying if not done properly.

I would suggest being able to have multiple pets just only one out at any given time and the option to have it patrol tribal land. During this option the pet roams only tribal territory and only attacks people who enter tribal land not on tribal friends list. also a whistle command if you get attacked while pet is across tribal land to have it come running to help aid in case you are attacked while your pet is not in sight. As far as seting a patrol point no. Option 2 guard mode where pet follows you around and guards so far away from you to prevent a attacker from scalping you while you are gathering. but a low limit of how far the pet can patrol. Option 1 of pet guard Tricks the pet can be taught example knock down. When pet spots a bad person it will do a run and knock down attack doing no physical damage but knocking the attacker to the ground allowing you time to get in attack mode.

Hiding skill can play a roll if ones hide skill is high enough they can get past the guard pet mode and do there cheap shot they want to do. Also allowing the pet to have ability to be trained to have a perspective bar as well so you can train that pet to have a chance at spotting that person.

This is my thought on this.

Animals are tons of possabilities but need limits. You don't want a bird being able to kill a bear. So example:
Fowl= Ability to scout sky return to0 play and point in the direction of the enemy.
Bear= Ability to attack
Dog: Ability to warn of near by danger with attack but not superior attack power.
Horse mule'as=Ability to ride and haul equipment and bags mabe cart's in future if carts ever become a option.
ETC so forth with every animal.

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