I just wholly disagree that this is important or deserves any attention from the developers. Sometimes, there needs to be an adult in the room to just say no...
Joins the strike.
As I posted elsewhere:
Stable should have 125 slots, for all characters. It should be treated as any other container. Absolutely NO reason for it not to have that many slots and a million reasons how it would make the game so much better especially for tamers.
Sneers at the hippie protesters wearing his white collar and three piece suit...
Too bad a stable ISN'T LIKE ANY OTHER CONTAINER. It doesn't deserve 125 slots. Comparing apples and oranges.
I would love to tame 20-30 animals to run player run events.
What player run event requires 30 animals?
Aren't the EM events and some of the Scalis net tosses bad enough with the dozens and dozens of dragons? And you want it so one or two accounts can bring double digit amount of animals? I'm curious why this would ever be needed. Sounds to me like this would be a public nuisance.
I would love to tame hiryu's etc in all rare colors and be able to keep loring and taming to improve the stock that I keep, and want to sell.
I would love to get a selection of high end cu's in various colors.
I would love for my 'non' taming characters to be able to have novelty pets squirrels, ferrets etc for role play, a selection of varied colored horses to take their fancy, instead of having just their beetle, mount and pack horse.
I would love my bushido warrior to have a choice of lessers in their stable, as well as the swampy and blue beetle they currently have.
I would love to tame a number of high end GD's for resale, ones that I can tame and train and sell as fully trained beasts.
I would love to be able to 'tame' a special pet for a gift for someone and know they would have room for it in their stable.
The current game mechanics do not prevent you from doing any of these things. Other players are able to accomplish this, stock their pet vendors and keep their rare colored pets. Does it take multiple accounts? Yes. Other people are doing this. Your wants don't warrant any exception to the rules that other players already abide by.
This is the one character class in UO that stagnates due to the fact that storage is abysmal.
Pure comedy with that derp quote. Just couldn't be more wrong. Tamers are still a VERY POWERFUL class. There are so many different powerful tamer templates you can run and be dominant in PVM and still very competitive in PVP.
There is no difference in storing 125 swords or bows ( I can store thousands of these if I wish), etach have individual stats and attributes, the same as pets have individual stats and attributes. Having tamed an animal and spent hours training it up I dont want to have to toss it out just to try a 'new' thing. I, like most tamers spend 90% of my time hunting with my GD as basically why wouldn't you when it outstrips pretty much all other pets? I hang on to my old rune beetle, cu, ww, bake, hiryu, reptalon, dreadmare, nightmare, blue beetle, pack horse, fire beetle in the vain hope that one day these pets will become useful again.
Simply couldn't be more wrong. HUGE difference between storing Greater Dragons (or any pet for that matter) versus a single sword or weapon.
No one forces you to hold onto those other pets. Ultima Online, like anything else, you have to make tough decisions. There are plenty of old players out there who's house storage has been at maximum for years too, but they have to make tough decisions about what to keep, what to sell, OR opening other accounts. You should have to do the same with your stable.
I would love it if they introduced a bunch of new tamables that equalled the power of GD's and took a look at the old pets and maybe rework them to make them viable again. Perhaps make these old pets equivalent to the GD when attacking certain mobs, eg) perhaps the runebeetle could outperform a GD when attacking medusa, and a WW be better than a GD when attacking Navrey etc. Just pimp them up so that players have to figure out what is better for what mob etc. Either way, new tamables mean you need more slots but a few slots is just a waste of a great opportunity to bring taming into the next decade of UO.
So you want old tameables to be changed to "become useful again" but also want new over-powered tamables to compete with peerless bosses etc.
That's nice and all, but it sounds like you want the entire tamer class to be boosted versus other classes. People who play other classes aren't going to necessarily be in agreement with this, starting with me.
125 slots (like any OTHER) container would be like heaven and make the taming profession actually useful and fun to play.
The way it is now with a piddly 16 slots on a full 120 tamer is just BS to be honest. Tossing in a few more token slots just wont cut it and frankly after all this time if you really are interested in improving the life of tamers out there and making taming an actual 'profession', then GIVE US 125.
At the end of the day it shouldn't matter to ANYONE how many pet slots I have. I don't CARE if you personally don't have a need for more pet slots. I DO. NO ONE says if you have the slots you have to fill em, but there is absolutely NO GOOD REASON why our stable shouldn't be like every other container, just some ridiculous historic 'limit' that has no logical reason other than pig headedness or something on the part of programmers. I just wish someone would actually put the paying customer and their needs first for a change.
There you go again with that falsehood that stable slots are the same as any container...THEY'RE NOT.
Tamers aren't the only paying customers. In the entirety of your post, you're asking for a big boost to tamers. One that yours truly doesn't think they deserve. Tamers are powerful enough. 16 slots per toon is sufficient. Per the newsletter, more will be coming with the expansion.
Just because you would like to hoard 125 animals, doesn't mean you're entitled to it.
This is a WANT, not a NEED.
