Game Development: Animal Domestication

[Dethdeath]

Great update, already looking forward to all of the horror stories of newbs getting trampled by aurochs

[Jeff]

Combat meditation supposedly lowers battle intensity if they miss.
Now I'm just waiting for my auroch to attack one last time, must have quelled it 10 times already.

Kinda annoying you can't go inside for 50 minutes to tame them.

Great. Except that, if they hit you, they get advantage. So, if you haven't got unarmed combat, you can't do almost nothing.
Edit: maybe, using a sword and a rope...let's try.
Not that effective anyway...

[VoodooDog]

10times ?
omg
i bet a hit decrease the tameness by 15 :\

[RaptorJedi]

How do you tell if a cow is preggers?

[Lokito_fp]

the Best update i ever seen *sniff*

[VoodooDog]

€

[Potjeh]

You shouldn't be hitting the aurochs. You need decent melee or unarmed for avoiding getting hit, and crap melee, unarmed or archery for missing all the time and getting initiative. Once you get enough initiative, use "Opportunity knocks" to get more, then "Sidestep" your way to full combat advantage, "Soak the flames" once you get there and finally "Quell the beast". If none of your combat skills are crap, sucks to be you

[Jeff]

You shouldn't be hitting the aurochs. You need decent melee or unarmed for avoiding getting hit, and crap melee, unarmed or archery for missing all the time and getting initiative. Once you get enough initiative, use "Opportunity knocks" to get more, then "Sidestep" your way to full combat advantage, "Soak the flames" once you get there and finally "Quell the beast". If none of your combat skills are crap, sucks to be you

As now, i've found that trapping them is very effective. Except it shouldn't be the right way to do...

[Chakravanti]

you dont need any crap stats, Just use no pain no gain...then opknock. It hurts, especially if opknock fails but it works without killing the cow or fucking up the current tameness you've acheived.

Also...DO NOT ATTACK THE SEMI-TAMED AUROCH. Wait for it to attack you or you will fuck it up and have to start all over again (deaggro..start from 0 tame all over).

ALSO, if you have decent armor, you dont need any combat skills to achieve this....but thinning out the herd might be a bit difficult. As stated elsewhere...bear traps are useful for avoiding having to do this. Trap yourself and one auroch inside a 1stick fire fence and have a go at it. Getting OUT of the fence when you're done might be a different story.

I could do it as an sheer noob with a fresh bonze plate, a rope, and the appropriate prerequisite skills (but 1 in all combat skills). That armor would turn to shit when i was done though.

[Gauteamus]

hehe, too bad none of my armed skills suck

I had to give up taming an ox due to the buggedness of Consume the Flames and No Pain, no Gain.

No Pain... should drain 50% of your remaining shp in exchange for init points, however with 2 shp, I got drained 26 shp and KO'ed when using the move. What is the rule here, is it misformulated in the How To sticky, or have I misinterpreted.

Also, according to the HowTo text, Consume the Flames should never drain more than 10 shp? Still I got knocked out using it having a remaining 33 shp.

None of those are really thoroughly tested, as I ran out of shp, but both makes taming harder than it should.