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Jonathan Baron
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This forum is rather demanding. Prior to posting you're told to read pages and pages of background info. There are no dumb questions, only dumb people who ask questions.
Of course I'm kidding. I get it. Not trash talking you fine gentlemen and ladies. However, in order to tame animals you have to START AT THE BEGINNING. There is no beginning in any of the articles, nor on the boards.
I'll say it again: there is no info on how to begin...anywhere.
How do you attempt this act? I wandered up to a creature, puzzled what to do next, clicked on it, up popped a box that said "Tame" and.....you get the idea. Kinda helps if you knew that the icon for taming on the client's skill page can be dragged to a tool bar, assigned a hot key, and with one key press you can target the animal and another commences the taming attempt. Or go with macros.
It's different for the latest client than it is for for the original but each can do at least what the other can.
I rant even though I'm past that now. A fellow pulled me aside in the game and went over it with me. In the game people do that. Yet I feel badly for folks yearning to do this and failing because there is no help at the most basic level.
Okay, another beginning that never begins: how do you get close enough to a kill-you-on-sight creature without pissing it off beyond the power of design limit skill to tame it? 100 points, people. That's what the game provides for any one skill: one hundred points. If you're exceeding the design specs - even though that mod seems to have become necessary - that should be mentioned...somewhere.
Noob sees templates filled with 120s that add up to 720.
Clearly you love helping people. There is no online game on this fragile sphere where veteran players are more helpful, more generous, more patient, and who make you feel more wanted than the UO community does. Been here two months after a lapse of ten years, I've played and developed online games for 15, and this is, far and away, the finest and richest MMO in the world.
So....let's get some stickies on stuff all of you have known so long you cannot remember when you didn't.
Yes, some of this is mentioned in article intros on this and other sites, but they're not assembled in a manner where material meets the mind of the uninitiated. Plus, as I've said perhaps too often, nothing at all about client setup. I could also find nothing explaining the slot system, just that you got more of them somehow if you did something, and how this relates to the number of pets you can put in the stables. I learned this by running afoul of it. And, yes, every animal I tamed one day did magically appear at the tavern of the Inn at New Haven where I log off (don't have a place on Chesapeake). I'll spare you the, "A deer, a llama, a horse and a polar bear go into a bar," joke.
Allow me to conclude this necessary rant with reiterating the question that brought me here but I could not find an answer to after combing the threads of this forum and doing all the suggested reading:
Again, what strategies do you employ to tame extremely dangerous animals? And what does disco have to do with it, or this stuff that sound like it's, "Dragon Taming: The Musical."
Sorry, but phrases like, "spam taming while going in and out of inv," means about as much to the likes of me as those Ex Rex Kor Por Flambe Dominus Vomita things you see above your head when casting a spell mean to...well...no one. They're nonsense. That phrase I cited is not. It's shorthand for something meaningful.
I know there are myriad paths...Mage/Tamer, Bard/Tamer, Warrior/Tamer, Musical Theater/Tamer, whatever. All these roads lead to the same place....well two: coming home with Godzilla's little brother or a fine collection of gray robes.
It's easy really. Just share your recollections. 120 points of skill in anything here doesn't just appear one fine day on your skills sheet.
You'll enjoy it and THAT will be the sticky noobs and vets will likely relish.
Thanks folks
Jonathan
Eaglerock on Lake Austin
Luscombe and Malcolm on Chesapeake
Of course I'm kidding. I get it. Not trash talking you fine gentlemen and ladies. However, in order to tame animals you have to START AT THE BEGINNING. There is no beginning in any of the articles, nor on the boards.
I'll say it again: there is no info on how to begin...anywhere.
How do you attempt this act? I wandered up to a creature, puzzled what to do next, clicked on it, up popped a box that said "Tame" and.....you get the idea. Kinda helps if you knew that the icon for taming on the client's skill page can be dragged to a tool bar, assigned a hot key, and with one key press you can target the animal and another commences the taming attempt. Or go with macros.
It's different for the latest client than it is for for the original but each can do at least what the other can.
I rant even though I'm past that now. A fellow pulled me aside in the game and went over it with me. In the game people do that. Yet I feel badly for folks yearning to do this and failing because there is no help at the most basic level.
Okay, another beginning that never begins: how do you get close enough to a kill-you-on-sight creature without pissing it off beyond the power of design limit skill to tame it? 100 points, people. That's what the game provides for any one skill: one hundred points. If you're exceeding the design specs - even though that mod seems to have become necessary - that should be mentioned...somewhere.
Noob sees templates filled with 120s that add up to 720.
Clearly you love helping people. There is no online game on this fragile sphere where veteran players are more helpful, more generous, more patient, and who make you feel more wanted than the UO community does. Been here two months after a lapse of ten years, I've played and developed online games for 15, and this is, far and away, the finest and richest MMO in the world.
So....let's get some stickies on stuff all of you have known so long you cannot remember when you didn't.
- What is taming in UO?
- Why do people tame animals? (it's freaking unique)
- How do I attempt to tame an animal? (client setup included)
- Which tamed animals can I ride?
- Which animals can be combat allies?
- What are slots, apart from those machines that make all that noise in Vegas?
- Why did a bunch of animals appear in my house suddenly? I vaguely recall taming them that day but...(perils of not explaining slots or catch and release)
- Why are people torturing animals, day and night, outside the stables at Luna, and who's the guy who keeps hitting the robot?
Yes, some of this is mentioned in article intros on this and other sites, but they're not assembled in a manner where material meets the mind of the uninitiated. Plus, as I've said perhaps too often, nothing at all about client setup. I could also find nothing explaining the slot system, just that you got more of them somehow if you did something, and how this relates to the number of pets you can put in the stables. I learned this by running afoul of it. And, yes, every animal I tamed one day did magically appear at the tavern of the Inn at New Haven where I log off (don't have a place on Chesapeake). I'll spare you the, "A deer, a llama, a horse and a polar bear go into a bar," joke.
Allow me to conclude this necessary rant with reiterating the question that brought me here but I could not find an answer to after combing the threads of this forum and doing all the suggested reading:
Again, what strategies do you employ to tame extremely dangerous animals? And what does disco have to do with it, or this stuff that sound like it's, "Dragon Taming: The Musical."
Sorry, but phrases like, "spam taming while going in and out of inv," means about as much to the likes of me as those Ex Rex Kor Por Flambe Dominus Vomita things you see above your head when casting a spell mean to...well...no one. They're nonsense. That phrase I cited is not. It's shorthand for something meaningful.
I know there are myriad paths...Mage/Tamer, Bard/Tamer, Warrior/Tamer, Musical Theater/Tamer, whatever. All these roads lead to the same place....well two: coming home with Godzilla's little brother or a fine collection of gray robes.
It's easy really. Just share your recollections. 120 points of skill in anything here doesn't just appear one fine day on your skills sheet.
You'll enjoy it and THAT will be the sticky noobs and vets will likely relish.
Thanks folks
Jonathan
Eaglerock on Lake Austin
Luscombe and Malcolm on Chesapeake