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So I tame.. a white wyrm and then I donate it... for 400 points.
To get the first reward I need 100.000 points.
Considering I can tame a white wyrm in 3 minutes plus the gates... (tested it right now)
Considering 100.000 divided by 400 equals 250.
It will take me 250 times 3 minutes to reach the 100.000 points...
Divided by 60... 12,5 hours... for one reward.
Who created the Zoo System? Does he/she plays UO?
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I completely agree that the point values, especially for the high end critters, should be higher.
As long as we're stuck with this system, though, here's how I look at it. If you go to Doom for 12.5 hours and get some artifacts and sell them for 1.5 million and donate the gold, there's your 100k Zoo points. Fill in your favorite (fun) way of making money, but if you can average more than 120k gold an hour over a 12.5 hour span and really want a Zoo prize, don't tame... donate the gold. If you pull a great artifact in the first couple hours, and decide to sell it and donate the gold, you could score half a million Zoo points or more in a fraction of the time it would have taken you to tame your way there.
A lot of the people that win gold prizes in the Zoo taming contests turn right around and donate the gold to the Zoo, earning them even more points. That's something to keep an eye out for. I've been asked to be a judge at a few of these contests and have been quite impressed by the number of animals some people can bring in!
If you're set on taming, I get slightly better results when my "sister" tames unicorns in Malas... probably 10k Zoo points an hour. No gating needed, just hop on the unicorn and recall to the Zoo. I'd assume the same would be true for ki-rins, assuming you have positive karma anyway.
Peaceful Journeys,
Lord Franklin
