Beastmastery

by Rika

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Xavius2008-10-14 16:15:59
Two more requests:

BEAST INFO without a modifier should default to the one that's out.

Add a tree climbing skill, please!
Diamondais2008-10-14 16:22:21
Something to see how much longer incubation will last?

Like the College/Guild score, has a count down until it's no longer there.
Xiel2008-10-14 16:22:24
QUOTE(shadow @ Oct 14 2008, 06:53 AM) 570775
Beastmastery change requests / Ideas:

o Add scooping to Beastmastery. (unless it is no longer required to get items while mounted)

o Allow feed items to be shopriftable or groupable to make stocking them in larger quantities easier. Same for reagents

o Make beasts eat from their feedbag first when stabled and only -then- eat the stable food to allow people to train them in a reasonable time even if not logged in much.

o Have more feed fit into the feedbag. Right now it is only like 5 feed lasting 5? hours. Make it 10-20.

o Allow beasts to be referred to by name. IE right now you'd do BEAST INFO . Allow the use of BEAST INFO for easier checking.

o Allow for BEAST INFO without a modifier to default to the beast currently summoned.

o Make it so the beast coming out of incubation comes out with at least one hour's worth of food in his feedbag, to avoid what happened to Thoros and others, where it died the instant it came out because that happened to be midnight.

o Addition of a tree climbing skill.

Possible Bugs / Weirdness:

o Rumor has it Incubation should be 24 rl hours. It is actually 30? Longer in either case.


Updated.
Ardmore2008-10-14 16:22:32
That's gotta be one fancy horse thar to climb thems ones trees.
Unknown2008-10-14 16:38:34
Now I want a gorilla beast... with wings.
Unknown2008-10-14 16:47:39
QUOTE(Zarquan @ Oct 14 2008, 06:38 PM) 570793
Now I want a gorilla beast... with wings.


I want that monkey from the "Golden Compass" movie. Would fit together with my magic carpet too!! freaked.gif
Noola2008-10-14 16:56:17
I want a giant bug creature! Like the buggalo from Futurama! cheer.gif
Sarrasri2008-10-14 16:56:22
Make collared beasts retrainable! Don't want to train a permanent beast only to find you messed something up or don't need something it knows anymore.
Diamondais2008-10-14 16:57:29
QUOTE(diamondais @ Oct 14 2008, 12:22 PM) 570789
Something to see how much longer incubation will last?

Like the College/Guild score, has a count down until it's no longer there.

Plz? sad.gif
Unknown2008-10-14 17:42:18
I forget if it was mentioned, but allowing reagents to be regular riftable or have a longer decay time would make me happy.
Xiel2008-10-14 18:12:34
QUOTE
Beastmastery change requests / Ideas:

o Add scooping to Beastmastery. (unless it is no longer required to get items while mounted)

o Allow feed items to be shopriftable or groupable to make stocking them in larger quantities easier. Same for reagents

o Make beasts eat from their feedbag first when stabled and only -then- eat the stable food to allow people to train them in a reasonable time even if not logged in much.

o Have more feed fit into the feedbag. Right now it is only like 5 feed lasting 5? hours. Make it 10-20.

o Allow beasts to be referred to by name. IE right now you'd do BEAST INFO . Allow the use of BEAST INFO for easier checking.

o Allow for BEAST INFO without a modifier to default to the beast currently summoned.

o Make it so the beast coming out of incubation comes out with at least one hour's worth of food in his feedbag, to avoid what happened to Thoros and others, where it died the instant it came out because that happened to be midnight.

o Addition of a tree climbing skill.

o Addition of an incubation timer akin to the countdown of novices within the collegium.

o Possibility of making collared mounts re-trainable.

o Make teaching abilities not give a generic, boring message as it does now.

Possible Bugs / Weirdness:

o Rumor has it Incubation should be 24 rl hours. It is actually 30? Longer in either case.


Updated. I added something about making teaching new skills not boring since when I taught one of my beasts Battle, all I got was a generic 'You train a young male horse with a black mane to battle.' If this isn't the case, could someone poke me?
Saran2008-10-14 18:20:01
QUOTE(Xiel @ Oct 15 2008, 04:12 AM) 570810
Updated. I added something about making teaching new skills not boring since when I taught one of my beasts Battle, all I got was a generic 'You train a young male horse with a black mane to battle.' If this isn't the case, could someone poke me?


Perhaps offer some cool training montages.

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You tip a conveniently located bard a few gold as he rocks into an awesome montage solo.

Jumping heavily onto your (mounts) back, you forcibly straighten it's wings and order it to break into a gallop. After that plan fails you sit there just flapping it's wings up and down for a while.

Through the magic of the timeskip your mount learns to fly... somehow

?
Xiel2008-10-14 18:22:34
Yeah, got tested. The training messages are all dull. You train a young female horse with a silvery tail to regenerate ego.

I'll come up with fancy sentences if the admin want to put the possibility in. happy.gif
Noola2008-10-14 18:38:12
QUOTE(Saran @ Oct 14 2008, 01:20 PM) 570813
Perhaps offer some cool training montages.

CODE
You tip a conveniently located bard a few gold as he rocks into an awesome montage solo.

Jumping heavily onto your (mounts) back, you forcibly straighten it's wings and order it to break into a gallop. After that plan fails you sit there just flapping it's wings up and down for a while.

Through the magic of the timeskip your mount learns to fly... somehow

?



You can never go wrong with a cool training montage. content.gif
Aison2008-10-14 18:41:34
QUOTE(shadow @ Oct 14 2008, 09:47 AM) 570796
I want that monkey from the "Golden Compass" movie. Would fit together with my magic carpet too!! freaked.gif


Ozymandis is a creature from popular books. You can't have it! pissed.gif

Also, for beastmastery, this stuff is confusing. blackeye.gif
Unknown2008-10-14 18:47:17
Do horses die of old age?
Xiel2008-10-14 18:47:31
I'll gladly explain things. biggrin.gif

Also, this whole 'wait for an hour for a single feeding' thing is bothersome. I really hope that the whole 'use up feedbag feed in stables before stable food' thing goes in, cause this one pony will take 40+ hours of me physically being here to feed it before it can learn a skill is worrisome.

Edit:

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ANNOUNCE NEWS #1205
Date: 10/14/2008 at 18:47
From: Estarra, the Eternal
To  : Everyone
Subj: Bug Fixes/Updates (mostly Beast related)

o Beasts should no longer be able to be picked up after they resurrect.

o Vault in Beastmastery has been changed to AdvancedRiding which
  includes the skills of vault and scooping.

o New option for stables: STABLE HOUSE FEED - the "feed" option
  will direct stable hands to allow your beast to feed out of its feedbag
  while housed.

o Beasts will not leave the stable without at least enough food to last
  a day. However, make sure you have food on hand in case they are close
  to starving!

o BEAST INFO on its own will show the info on your current beast
  that is out of the stables.

o All feed and reagents are riftable with max rift limits of 500 each.

o Beastmastery Bodyguard has been fixed so that your beast will protect
  you, not your targets.  Oops.

Penned by My hand on the 21st of Juliary, in the year 218 CE.


YES! Thank you! wub.gif
Diamondais2008-10-14 18:50:05
QUOTE(Xiel @ Oct 14 2008, 02:47 PM) 570821
I'll gladly explain things. biggrin.gif

Also, this whole 'wait for an hour for a single feeding' thing is bothersome. I really hope that the whole 'use up feedbag feed in stables before stable food' thing goes in, cause this one pony will take 40+ hours of me physically being here to feed it before it can learn a skill is worrisome.

ANNOUNCE NEWS #1205
Date: 10/14/2008 at 18:47
From: Estarra, the Eternal
To : Everyone
Subj: Bug Fixes/Updates (mostly Beast related)

o Beasts should no longer be able to be picked up after they resurrect.

o Vault in Beastmastery has been changed to AdvancedRiding which
includes the skills of vault and scooping.

o New option for stables: STABLE HOUSE FEED - the "feed" option
will direct stable hands to allow your beast to feed out of its feedbag
while housed.

o Beasts will not leave the stable without at least enough food to last
a
day. However, make sure you have food on hand in case they are close
to staving!
o BEAST INFO on its own will show the info on your current beast
that is out of the stables.

o All feed and reagents are riftable with max rift limits of 500 each.

o Beastmastery Bodyguard has been fixed so that your beast will protect
you, not your targets. Oops.

o Runes of Dimensional Instability will no longer cause artifacts to
slip into a hazy state of half-existence.

o Log messages for nexus discretionary powers will distinguish between
a commune and its ethereal counterpart.

o People sometimes got permanent grace after arena disconnects. This
should no longer happen.

Penned by My hand on the 21st of Juliary, in the year 218 CE.
Unknown2008-10-14 18:50:22
QUOTE
o Beastmastery Bodyguard has been fixed so that your beast will protect
you, not your targets. Oops.


doh.gif

As if they couldn't die fast enough already because of the whole feeding thing. laugh.gif

At least it's fixed!
Unknown2008-10-14 18:55:17
QUOTE(Announcements! @ Oct 14 2008, 02:50 PM) 570822
o Vault in Beastmastery has been changed to AdvancedRiding which
includes the skills of vault and scooping.


This is very good. biggrin.gif

QUOTE(Announcements! @ Oct 14 2008, 02:50 PM) 570822
o New option for stables: STABLE HOUSE FEED - the "feed" option
will direct stable hands to allow your beast to feed out of its feedbag
while housed.


No more starving horsies!

QUOTE(Announcements! @ Oct 14 2008, 02:50 PM) 570822
o Beasts will not leave the stable without at least enough food to last
a
day. However, make sure you have food on hand in case they are close
to staving!


Also good. But yay typos!

QUOTE(Announcements! @ Oct 14 2008, 02:50 PM) 570822
o BEAST INFO on its own will show the info on your current beast
that is out of the stables.

o All feed and reagents are riftable with max rift limits of 500 each.


Woot! biggrin.gif

QUOTE(Announcements! @ Oct 14 2008, 02:50 PM) 570822
o Beastmastery Bodyguard has been fixed so that your beast will protect
you, not your targets. Oops.


doh.gif

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Admin, I'd love you forever if the horses had personalities that differed based on feed, reagents, or something else!