Let me sneak in here right quick....
First, could you tell your brother that cash says hi? If he is back to playing id like to talk to him in vent sometimes.
Second, Tamers are what killed Siege, sorry man but if you want to attract people to come here , you have to put the pets away.
stealth tamers are gimped. Period. Tell me a template that can kill a stealth tamer 1v1, it doest happen. Sure you *MIGHT* be able to kill ONE with a group of people, revealing and chasing and dismounting and even then with ninjitsu and smoke bombs its almost impossible.
You take taming, the biggest offensive skill in the game and combine it with ninja and stealth, the biggest defensive skill in the game and you have what made A HUGE PORTION of siege quit, including myself and most serious pvpers in the last 3 years.
JSV blue naked tamers?
TNT stealth dismounter + stealth tamers?
KOC bok tamers? (Didn't really have a problem with this one but trying to make a point here)
Taming is whack.
Solo pvp should be the bread and butter of siege and instead its impossible.
Hell iv even played a tamer to kill other tamers and so have all the other pvpers that say they are whack, the pvp system in UO is very good except for the oversights on stealth, detect, ninja and taming.
Name any other template thats as gimped, there ist one. Iv dueled almost everyone on here and every pvp template is fun to fight even if a die, it has its strengths and weaknesses.
Taming is so gimped, you don't even need gear. But a tamer with gm armor and a few pots can take down a small group of elite geared pvpers if he is put into a good situation.
Remove pet bonding from siege and il come back tomarrow.
Oh and by the way, tamers are so lame I made a guild dedicated to not pvping WITH or against tamers. It was about real pvp, even if we lost.
You can ask your brother about it, he helped me form it.