A couple questions concerning animal taming...

[trist007]

Hi guys this is my first post. I am glad you guys made this server and especially happy that it is so active. Happy to be here. Great game.

Ok here are my questions.

1. When you tame an animal, does it have the same skills, stats, etc as before you tamed it, or do they go down the moment you successfully tame it?

2. When you tame an animal and animal lore you, you can tell if it's hungry, etc. However, old uo doesn't show the animals skills like wrestling, etc. So do the tamable pets have skills that can be raised or do they remain static?

3. I have seen that you can have more than 5 wolves. Is there really no limit to how many pets you can have at once? Unlimited dragons at your command?

4. When you tame an animal, then shortly release it, will the skill needed to retame the same animal be more difficult?

Thanks in advance.

[Mikel123]

Hi guys this is my first post. I am glad you guys made this server and especially happy that it is so active. Happy to be here. Great game.

Ok here are my questions.

1. When you tame an animal, does it have the same skills, stats, etc as before you tamed it, or do they go down the moment you successfully tame it?

2. When you tame an animal and animal lore you, you can tell if it's hungry, etc. However, old uo doesn't show the animals skills like wrestling, etc. So do the tamable pets have skills that can be raised or do they remain static?

3. I have seen that you can have more than 5 wolves. Is there really no limit to how many pets you can have at once? Unlimited dragons at your command?

4. When you tame an animal, then shortly release it, will the skill needed to retame the same animal be more difficult?

Thanks in advance.

1) they stay the same. nerfing their skills by 10% was a post-UO:R "feature"
2) yes, they can be raised. pet stats are actually supposed to raise faster than player stats; you can notice your dragon's improved wrestling after 30 minutes of hunting, I've found.
3) no limit. Of course, the more you have, the more likely one (or more) is going to fail a command. Hunting with more than three dragons is not advised. I find one is actually plenty for killing just about anything. Maybe you'd want a couple for tackling Ancient Wyrms or something.
4) a tamed animal that is released will have a 0.0 difficulty (for any tamer that could normally tame it) and will give 0 skill gains. So for example, if a dragon takes 93.9 to tame, and I release one of my dragons, you can tame it 100% of the time on the first try if you have 93.9 or higher taming skill. If you have 93.8 or less, you will still have a 0% chance of taming it.

[Hoots]

Hi guys this is my first post. I am glad you guys made this server and especially happy that it is so active. Happy to be here. Great game.

Ok here are my questions.

1. When you tame an animal, does it have the same skills, stats, etc as before you tamed it, or do they go down the moment you successfully tame it?

2. When you tame an animal and animal lore you, you can tell if it's hungry, etc. However, old uo doesn't show the animals skills like wrestling, etc. So do the tamable pets have skills that can be raised or do they remain static?

3. I have seen that you can have more than 5 wolves. Is there really no limit to how many pets you can have at once? Unlimited dragons at your command?

4. When you tame an animal, then shortly release it, will the skill needed to retame the same animal be more difficult?

Thanks in advance.

1. Im not 100% sure but i dont think animals lose skill when you tame them. Not positive though.
2. Pet skills can be raised. We know this bc a newly tamed dragon cant enter "Wind" bc it doesnt meet the magery requirement. But if you train the drag up for a while it will be able to enter.
3. No limit, correct! But dont have dreams of controlling 50 drags. Some recent changes have made controlling many animals near impossible. To start, when you claim your pets you have to tell it to follow you. Follow commands to 20 drags will see some fails just to get them to follow you... You would basically have to feed all your pets everytime you issued a command and i still doubt you could do much with them.
4. Nope, you cant gain off pretames anymore. I believe once an animal is tamed its required taming is actually lowered. In other words.... When you tame something, release it and kill it or at a min rename it and release so other tamers gaining skill can kill it and wont waste time on something that cant gain skill from.

welcome. Hope you like it here!
-Hoots

[sirrayiv]

Hi guys this is my first post. I am glad you guys made this server and especially happy that it is so active. Happy to be here. Great game.

Ok here are my questions.

1. When you tame an animal, does it have the same skills, stats, etc as before you tamed it, or do they go down the moment you successfully tame it?

2. When you tame an animal and animal lore you, you can tell if it's hungry, etc. However, old uo doesn't show the animals skills like wrestling, etc. So do the tamable pets have skills that can be raised or do they remain static?

3. I have seen that you can have more than 5 wolves. Is there really no limit to how many pets you can have at once? Unlimited dragons at your command?

4. When you tame an animal, then shortly release it, will the skill needed to retame the same animal be more difficult?

Thanks in advance.

Answers to your questions
1. Everything stays the same upon taming (I could be wrong on this one, but don't think that I am.)

2. Even though you can't see your pets skills, it does have skills that can be raised. So the more you train a dragon, the better its magery, wrestling, damage output will be.

3. There are no control slots on this server, because back in The Second Age on OSI servers 1999....control slots didn't exist. You can have as many pets as you would like at one time. However keep in mind, that with Dragons, the more you are trying to control at once, the more difficult it will be to control them.

4. On this server, ANY previously tamed animal can be tamed first try out, if you have the minimum skill to train it. The bad thing about this is, you will get a message. "That wasn't even challenging" and you will NEVER gain skill points off of a previous tamed animal.
So on this server if you have 80 skill in taming, and are looking for bulls to tame, you will want to avoid any that have been pre-tamed already and have had their names changed.

The problem with this is, there are ALOT of inconsiderate tamers on this server, who will tame animals, and neither change their name, or release them. This can be very frustrating because if animals aren't renamed after they have been tamed, then you will come along and waste your time taming it, only to realize that its a dud, and no skill gain will come out of it. AND if players don't release their animals then you will have to flag criminal in order to kill them so that more will spawn, or just move along to another area.

[GuardianKnight]

Like to add some things before you possibly waste your time.

Dragons/wyrms are slower here than anywhere else and can't even keep up with you in follow mode while WALK. They lag before they start to attack anything.

All kill also doesn't work here so you have to set a macro for each pet name to kill. Which takes roughly 4 seconds total to target anything.

Dragons used to randomly attack reds....they do it bout 10% of the time now.

There. If someone had told me all this i would not have wasted my time.