The Great Goatini

[hed9870]

After much procrastination I decided to go out and get some more goats to tame. Not that I hadn't tried before. The first time, within 24 hours 3 of 4 goats just vanished without a trace and to my knowledge, without every going in to fighting stance. I chalked it up to bad luck. Very, very bad luck. So, I arrive home safe and sound with two goats leashed and tether them. When I wake up this morning, all seems well. The goats are still present, although neither are ready to fight. So I go on to get breakfast before I play. 20 minutes later I come back to the game, without logging out and one goat is gone. Just vanished. No combat stance, nothing. As I said before. The first time I just thought the goats disappearing was just that they all went in to combat while I was sleeping and disappeared before I woke up. Now I'm convinced there is a problem with the mechanics of taming/tethering with wild goats.

[Yasodhara]

I don't know if there is a bug, very well might be. Just wanted to say that this whole system of taming is whack as shit. Time window of animals going aggro is so random it's not even funny. If you tether two animals at the exact same moment, time difference between them getting ready to be tamed can be something like 8-10 hours. And if you missed that window once it would take 4 taming sessions instead of 3, futher increasing your chances to miss it again. Last world i had a boar which i was trying to tame for a solid week, because progress kept resetting, in the end he bugged out and didn't go into combat stance ever again, he was just hanging out by the hitching post for another week or so before i killed him.
I just don't get why it has to be such a chore to tame animals, if you can log in just for a couple of hours every other day, your chances of taming anything are slim to none. Imagine if your crops would die if you wouldn't harvest them as soon as they are ready. That wouldn't be very fun, would it? And yet this is exactly what's going on with animals in taming process. Why can't they remain in battle stance until you actually fight them? Would it be gamebreaking if you would know that after you tethered an animal, it would take exactly x hours for it to be ready to fight, so you wouldn't have to check on it every fucking hour like an autist. There are so many systems with set timers, in which you know when thing you are waiting for is going to happen and yet taming has to be a guessing shitshow. Just tamed my last goat btw, so i might be slightly biased.