02-07-2009, 12:44 PM
I made a few posts about this same problem. The problem is that this system is too easy to monopolize, you're absolutely right. Theo, Sam, myself, all gm tamers and we check nearly every spawn several times a day, its really only other gm tamers who can get anything who already know the spawns. New tamers cannot find any of the spawns because all the GM tamers keep everything constantly tamed. Its completely unfair to new players.
I came up with what I think is a good solution, it goes something like this.
When a mount spawns from its original spawnpoint (lets use gold for this example), its given a spawn specific ID, when a tamer comes along and tames it an account tag is added to their account and a timer is started. This person (and all chars on his account) cannot tame again from this spawn until the timer expires. The gold stang will then quickly respawn within a few minutes, rather than hours or days.
This allows new tamers to always be able to find new stangs if they make the effort to search for them. The timer itself can be modified by staff to increase or decrease the rarity of some mounts. This will not hurt any GM tamers, and it levels the playing field for new tamers wanting to explore and find new rides.
Any of you gms capable of doing account tagging maybe want to take a shot at this? A new craftable book could also be added similar to a killbook, requirements to craft something like gm inscript, animal lore, animal taming, vetrinary. A book that shows how long you have left till you can tame each stang again, when you tame it the first time its added into your book along with the coords where you got it.
edit: btw token to help ya out I've listed for you what I know spawns. But you should know that many of the spawns are not just go there and tame it, many of them require completing complex dungeons, similar to deceit though that is still the hardest. If I list a difficulty, it means that it requires you to complete a quest or dungeon environment to get it.
Gold - spawns
Champagne - spawns
Aqua - spawns
Black rock - spawns - Extremely hard difficulty
Blizzard - spawns (i think, i personally havnt gotten it, and i think its been moved again, dunno)
Blood rock - spawns
Daemon - spawns - medium difficulty
Marsh - spawns
Emerald - spawns (I dont know how to get it either)
Fire - doesnt spawn (as far as i know)
Myth orn - spawns
Oceanic - spawns
Orn - spawns
Sand orn - spawns
Adamantine - spawns (not at titan fort)
Valorite - spawns
Wizzard - spawns - medium difficulty
Zostrich - spawns
New spawns
Silver Llama - spawns - medium difficulty
Lava zos - spawns - high difficulty
Chimera - spawns - high difficulty
Charcoal llama - spawns - high difficulty
Undead Orn - spawns - high difficulty
random stang - spawns
Lol 200th post w00t
I came up with what I think is a good solution, it goes something like this.
When a mount spawns from its original spawnpoint (lets use gold for this example), its given a spawn specific ID, when a tamer comes along and tames it an account tag is added to their account and a timer is started. This person (and all chars on his account) cannot tame again from this spawn until the timer expires. The gold stang will then quickly respawn within a few minutes, rather than hours or days.
This allows new tamers to always be able to find new stangs if they make the effort to search for them. The timer itself can be modified by staff to increase or decrease the rarity of some mounts. This will not hurt any GM tamers, and it levels the playing field for new tamers wanting to explore and find new rides.
Any of you gms capable of doing account tagging maybe want to take a shot at this? A new craftable book could also be added similar to a killbook, requirements to craft something like gm inscript, animal lore, animal taming, vetrinary. A book that shows how long you have left till you can tame each stang again, when you tame it the first time its added into your book along with the coords where you got it.
edit: btw token to help ya out I've listed for you what I know spawns. But you should know that many of the spawns are not just go there and tame it, many of them require completing complex dungeons, similar to deceit though that is still the hardest. If I list a difficulty, it means that it requires you to complete a quest or dungeon environment to get it.
Gold - spawns
Champagne - spawns
Aqua - spawns
Black rock - spawns - Extremely hard difficulty
Blizzard - spawns (i think, i personally havnt gotten it, and i think its been moved again, dunno)
Blood rock - spawns
Daemon - spawns - medium difficulty
Marsh - spawns
Emerald - spawns (I dont know how to get it either)
Fire - doesnt spawn (as far as i know)
Myth orn - spawns
Oceanic - spawns
Orn - spawns
Sand orn - spawns
Adamantine - spawns (not at titan fort)
Valorite - spawns
Wizzard - spawns - medium difficulty
Zostrich - spawns
New spawns
Silver Llama - spawns - medium difficulty
Lava zos - spawns - high difficulty
Chimera - spawns - high difficulty
Charcoal llama - spawns - high difficulty
Undead Orn - spawns - high difficulty
random stang - spawns
Lol 200th post w00t