Interactive Baby Raising - More Testing

[crepemyrtlesl]

June 8th Testing

I have been breeding animals to see how the mature multiplier and cuddle interval multiplier work together. Our servers have finally settled on mature multiplier of 10 and cuddle interval multiplier of 0.25 after few testing. So it ended up the interval time was between 44 minutes and 59 minutes. I verified it by checking the dev kit and sure enough, the minimum interval will be 45 minutes and maximum interval will be 60 minutes after adjusting the BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier. If you leave the BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier = 1.0, the interval time is between 10800 seconds (3 hours) to 14400 seconds (4 hours).

I finally got 100% imprinting and I was so happy about that. My confusion was the final stats on my dino. Here is the gyazo screenshot I did, Final Stats[gyazo.com]. The stats for weight and food were not syncing until I started riding my dino. When I rode my bird, I got an extra icon on top right corner, Extra Symbol.

For those people who are curious on what you get each time you imprint a dino, here are the screenshots for you. Please remember that the imprint percent may vary depending on your multiplier in your server and dino. Enjoy! Happy breeding and I hope this helps.

Initial [gyazo.com],
2nd [gyazo.com], Imprinted 18.5%
3rd [gyazo.com], Imprinted 18.5%
4th [gyazo.com], Imprinted 18.5%
5th [gyazo.com], Imprinted 18.5%
6th [gyazo.com], Imprinted 18.5%
7th [gyazo.com], Imprinted 7.5%

June 11th Testing

Multipliers Use
BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier = 10
BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier = 0.25

Cuddle Intervals
Minimum cuddle time - 2700 seconds (45 minutes)
Maximum cuddle time - 3600 seconds (60 minutes)

Dodo Testing
Mature Duration = 5,555.5 (1 hour, 32 minutes, 35 seconds)
Approximate minimum cuddle count ~ 2.136730769230769
Approximate maximum cuddle count ~ 1.543194444444444
Minimum imprinting % - 46.80046800468005
Maximum Imprinting % - 64.80064800648008

Screenshots:
Initial imprinting - waited for 59 minutes and 57 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702109143
2nd imprinting - imprinted @ 65% and showed next cuddle timer @ 57 minutes and 35 seconds, which I only have 32 minutes and 38 seconds left. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702109573
Adulthood http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702109718
Direwolf Testing
Mature duration - 17543.8 (4 hours, 52 minutes, 23 seconds)
Approximate minimum cuddle count ~ 6.747615384615385
Approximate maximum cuddle count ~ 4.873277777777778
Minimum imprinting % - 14.82005038817132
Maximum Imprinting % - 20.52006976823721

Screenshots:
Initial Imprinting - waited for 58 minutes and 20 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702116929
2nd imprinting - imprinted at 20.5% and showed next cuddle timer @ 51 minutes and 33 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702117166
3rd imprinting - imprinted at 20.5% and showed next cuddle timer @ 47 minutes and 15 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702117292
4th imprinting - imprinted at 20.5% and showed next cuddle timer @ 53 minutes and 47 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702117556
5th imprinting - imprinted at 20.5% and showed next cuddle timer @ 57 minutes and 49 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702117690
6th imprinting - imprinted at 18% and showed next cuddle timer @ 48 minutes and 51 seconds http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702121997
Adulthood - I waited for another 18 minutes to complete the breeding http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=702130961
Argentavis Testing
Mature duration - 19607.8 (5 hours, 26 minutes, 47 seconds)
Approximate minimum cuddle count ~ 7.541461538461538
Approximate maximum cuddle count ~ 5.446611111111111
Minimum imprinting % - 13.26002917206418
Maximum Imprinting % - 18.36004039208886

I will not be doing any screenshots for these 2 birds. I will just log the cuddle interval timer. Towards the end, both birds have about 20 minutes left to complete the breeding process.

1. Xan - Level 231 (male)
   Initial - 49 minutes and 30 seconds
   2nd - I was not paying attention the next interval, 18.36%
   3rd - 50 minutes and 13 seconds, 18.36%
   4th - 48 minutes and 58 seconds, 18.36%
   5th - 57 minutes and 20 seconds, 18.36%
   6th - 53 minutes and 49 seconds, 18.36%
   7th - 55 minutes and 35 seconds, 8%
   
2. Crepe - Level 231 (female)
   Initial - 58 minutes and 5 seconds
   2nd - 50 minutes and 20 seconds, 18.36%
   3rd - 50 minutes and 25 seconds, 18.36%
   4th - 46 minutes and 49 seconds, 18.36%
   5th - 47 minutes and 31 seconds, 18.36%
   6th - 49 minutes and 13 seconds, 18.36%
   7th - 54 minutes and 40 seconds, 8%

I will add more dinos to test, but for now, this is the list. I haven't found above level 140 for the following dinos: carnotaurus, castoroides, direbear, mammoth, quetzal, and spinosaur. I have found plenty over level 140 at the Half Burnt Island at the center map, but we ended up killing it LOL. Same thing as the mammoth, we just ended up killing it while leveling our wolves LOL. Hopefully, soon enough that my friend and I are not there to level our dinos.

My next test will be pteranodon and rex.

[crepemyrtlesl]

To get 100% imprint, it will need to be all maturation levels.

[smh9g03]

Originally posted by crepemyrtlesl:

To get 100% imprint, it will need to be all maturation levels.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

[albertorodalv]

amazin work! thanks :) I hope that dev can fix that dont necesary get all care moment for people that play in official server and too have life :)

[Jax]

Originally posted by albertorodalv:

amazin work! thanks :) I hope that dev can fix that dont necesary get all care moment for people that play in official server and too have life :)

Just wrote up a post on it. Glad there's more people who understand the problems with the system.

[crepemyrtlesl]

Originally posted by smh9g03:

Originally posted by crepemyrtlesl:

To get 100% imprint, it will need to be all maturation levels.

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

What I meant by it is, it's not only baby stage that you imprint, but the whole maturation process(baby, juvenile, and adolescent).

[crepemyrtlesl]

Yeah, that's quite brutal in official servers to have default on settings especially for breeding. The advantage of having your own server or going to private server that have those multipliers adjusted, you can enjoy other things. Granted that it is fun going to official servers, but I don't think I will breed there. I just love breeding, but to be sitting for hours and days and without sleep, I will not do it.

[smh9g03]

Originally posted by crepemyrtlesl:

Originally posted by smh9g03:

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

What I meant by it is, it's not only baby stage that you imprint, but the whole maturation process(baby, juvenile, and adolescent).

Ok, that was understood already. I'm not sure that your server settings had anything to do with reaching 100% - you did reduce the interval time, and by scaling the maturation time, you were able to control the amount each interaction provided accordingly. But I have to assume that your interaction intervals, on average, were on the shorter end of the scale, which allowed you that 6th interaction that pushed you over 100%. Had all your intervals been maximum time between (60 minutes), you would have ended up at ~90% when the baby matured.

[albertorodalv]

i think that have easy fix. Who want and can do all cares moment, perfect 100% better raise stats.. .Who only can do weekend and only 58% (only example) well have less raise but have 58% instead 100% of better stats... i think that it is easy and happy for all.
I dont want that 100% imprint will be easy, is nice that we have strong things for do (especially in PVE server)

[poky]

So the person who imrinted the dinos gets the boosts on it and for example if someone would ride it they will loose extra staats?

[crepemyrtlesl]

Originally posted by smh9g03:

Originally posted by crepemyrtlesl:

What I meant by it is, it's not only baby stage that you imprint, but the whole maturation process(baby, juvenile, and adolescent).

Ok, that was understood already. I'm not sure that your server settings had anything to do with reaching 100% - you did reduce the interval time, and by scaling the maturation time, you were able to control the amount each interaction provided accordingly. But I have to assume that your interaction intervals, on average, were on the shorter end of the scale, which allowed you that 6th interaction that pushed you over 100%. Had all your intervals been maximum time between (60 minutes), you would have ended up at ~90% when the baby matured.

I am not saying that my server has to do with the 100% imprinting. I did all the calculation, which by the way, I was not aware of someone has done the calculation. All my research and calculation are based on my own by playing with the settings, breeding different dinos. With all the testing, only two multipliers were adjusted: BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier and BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier. The only thing I did was to share how I got my 100% imprinting. Imprinting dinos are not easy. That's a lot of work, but with the rest of the Ark players, I do have a full time job. I don't want to spend my hours waiting to breed and to imprint so indeed, the servers I have are adjusted to my liking.

Many assumed that imprinting will be 20% for all dinos, but you have to factor in the mature duration and also if you have multipliers in your server. I can't speak for official servers, but at least I can speak for people who owns their server and can adjust their settings. One testing I did was I have BabyMatureSpeedMultiplier = 10 and BabyCuddleIntervalMultiplier = 1. The imprinting I gpt per interval was 43%. With shorter mature time, of course, you can't achieve 100% imprinting when the cuddle interval will be between 3 hours and 4 hours. Most you can achieve with that setting is 86%, provided you didn't miss the cuddle.

This last testing I did, the intervals were between 44 minutes and 59 minutes, but the imprinting stayed at 18.5% until the 6th one, which gave me 7.5%. I actually kept the interval time for each cuddle.

Initial - 44 minutes
2nd - 55 minutes and 57 seconds
3rd - 52 minutes and 57 seconds
4th - 50 minutes
5th - 59 minutes
6th - 54 minutes
7th - 58 minutes

When the imprinting reached 100%, the maturation process was not over. I have to wait for another 10 minutes to complete. Overall, as long as you don't miss any cuddle, the imprinting will adjust accordingly.

I don't assume. I test, I verify, I confirm.

[crepemyrtlesl]

Originally posted by poky:

So the person who imrinted the dinos gets the boosts on it and for example if someone would ride it they will loose extra staats?

It's a buff, but I will not call it boost. The stats remain even if someone else rides the dino. Only the person who imprinted will get the buff. Also, your tribe mates can see those imprinting.

[crepemyrtlesl]

Additional testing done.

[Lilkinsly]

Ok so say that my maturation speed is 30x. What would I want to set my cuddle interval at to be able to get 100% imprints?

[Trev]

Hi,

I play on a 3X maturation server and we were looking to implement something similar. I see you are running a 10X...do you know what value we should use for 3x to increase our odds of a 100% imprint?

[SLAIN]

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