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Alpha Two Realms are now unlocked for Phase II testing!
For our initial launch, testing will begin on Friday, December 20, 2024, at 10 AM Pacific and continue uninterrupted until Monday, January 6, 2025, at 10 AM Pacific. After January 6th, we’ll transition to a schedule of five-day-per-week access for the remainder of Phase II.
You can download the game launcher here and we encourage you to join us on our for the most up to date testing news.
Taming and breeding effectiveness?
Quarantine
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Taming is what made me interested in Ashes. I am very excited about the entire Animal Husbandry tree! Of course, I'm excited about everything, but taming is my favorite concept. I'd really love to see some type of logical mini game in Ashes for how we tame our mounts and pets (and meat?)
When you have played other games with taming, what has been your favorite mini game?
I personally would love to see something where you have to get to know a creature, and have it's favorite meals or activities to offer it. Like catch a fish for a bear, or gather a special plant for an herbivore, and then maybe even fight to earn the respect of an aggressive creature, get them to low health and then lasso/net them.
It would also be neat if once they were tamed, your care for them could be how special qualities were unlocked for breeding. It would be really interesting if you fail to care for them correctly and you get one that hates being touched or something.
What would you like to see?
When you have played other games with taming, what has been your favorite mini game?
I personally would love to see something where you have to get to know a creature, and have it's favorite meals or activities to offer it. Like catch a fish for a bear, or gather a special plant for an herbivore, and then maybe even fight to earn the respect of an aggressive creature, get them to low health and then lasso/net them.
It would also be neat if once they were tamed, your care for them could be how special qualities were unlocked for breeding. It would be really interesting if you fail to care for them correctly and you get one that hates being touched or something.
What would you like to see?
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In Conan; each type of mount/pet has preferred food and performs better (in battle & for healing) if you spend the time to gather/craft it's favorite food. Each mount/pet also levels up and gains it's own passive skills/traits.
Then in Black Desert, you have to take your lasso out into the world and capture your own wild horse, by participating in a small mini game.
(Additionally): In Final Fantasy 11, your Chocobo ages over a period of time (before it is eligible to be ridden as a mount. During those early development stages, it sometime gets sick and needs medicine. Or gets sad and needs comfort. Needs to be taken out for a walk. It helped players develop a interpersonal connection to their future mount/friend.
I would enjoy being more immersed and personalize better with our companions using these types of ideas as well. Animal Husbandry sounds like a fun profession to get involved with.
Steven Sharif is my James Halliday (Anorak)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
-HPL
Not completely sure what you mean by "mini-game" but i've always found Pokémon to have a very fun taming/training system. Very simple on the surface but deep diving makes it complex with lots of variety.
I want to be able to raise my mounts affection towards me, keeping it out with me, feeding it what it likes, not having my mount to faint/die would all be things that would increase or decrease the affection. Reaching a certain affection threshold would unlock some sort of passive quality of some kind which would differ from mount to mount.
I'd also want to be able to train my mounts stats through combat. Raising it's stats ever so slightly perhaps depending on what monster you kill together with your mount the stat points would be distributed differently. Killing a goblin might improve the mounts health while killing a bear would increase it's strength.
That way i could not only capture & breed mounts but i could also train them to eventually perhaps sell them.
I would love to be able to actually name my captured / bred mounts & allowing for a one time re-name for people who perhaps ends up buying it and someone decided to call it buttmuncher3000