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Taming etiquette?

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 9:42 pm
by Krom
Just wondering if there is any "rules" that come with taming.

Was in a dungeon today and had a mob i was taming attacked and stolen from me twice by the same person when i had to back off to reapply my peacekeeping to the mob i was attempting to tame broke the peace.

The first time i was told "he attacked me, i wont stop fighting back", so i thought fine. Than it happened a few mins later from the same person.

The beast i was taming was aggroed to me so there is no way it attacked them, so i was wondering if there is any sort of unwritten rule about this. I thought it was pretty rude and wouldn't do this intensonally to somebody else.

Re: Taming etiquette?

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:27 pm
by Pariah
The only rule I know of that would apple here is the spawn sharing rule. If more than one person is at a spawn, they must take turns...

Re: Taming etiquette?

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:41 pm
by Xavian
Could be considered kill stealing. Probably harassment since it happened multiple times. Spawn sharing would apply, you were there, he was not, your spawn. If he was waiting for it to spawn then that would be a different story. It's just bad manners too

Re: Taming etiquette?

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:17 am
by Dianne
That is rude, but there aren't really clear cut rules that I know of besides the universal "do unto others..."

Here are a few other ways I've found to make the taming world better:

Kill your released tames. This applies mainly to the taming forest. This allows an animal to respawn. Once something has been tamed the skill gain diminishes (at least on other shards...assuming this one too) so renaming something "a" gives people a heads up, but new tamers might not know that. For filling BODs, if I am looking for "a llama," it is frustrating to run around and see "a" everywhere and have to go behind trees and such to see if it is a llama or a grizzly bear. And even then, is it a rideable llama? Have to tame and try to add to BOD to find out.

Don't tame things way above your level. This is constantly an issue in Destard. We will be taming Dragons/Drakes and a younger player will run right into the middle and get a trail of them...and then run out of the dungeon to avoid dying. They all immediately aggro us, disrupt our taming, and if we succeeded in the meantime, they kill our new pet.

I think the same rules as in combat should apply. Share mob spawns, don't sick all your aggros on someone, don't steal someone's mob, etc.