Crystal Isles basilisk taming?

[khanware]

I've heard they removed rock drakes from this map. How are you supposed to tame the basilisk without having a rock drake egg? Am I missing something here?

[Stefani]

Hopefully we can get an updated list of what actually exists on this map because I read they took out a lot of things. On our server, the map is almost empty of dinos compared to what I would normally expect, except for the griffins, which are spawning an insane amount in the trenches. This could be our issue, but I'm interested in what other people are dealing with. I looked for the mantises and couldn't find them. The rock drake spawn is definitely gone. Definitely some disappointing changes thus far.

[khanware]

Yeah that is very true. I know they have basilisks though because I saw one, although I can't see the sense of why they put them in them in if you don't have the rock drake egg to tame them with.

[Shahadem]

Originally posted by Stefani:

Hopefully we can get an updated list of what actually exists on this map because I read they took out a lot of things. On our server, the map is almost empty of dinos compared to what I would normally expect, except for the griffins, which are spawning an insane amount in the trenches. This could be our issue, but I'm interested in what other people are dealing with. I looked for the mantises and couldn't find them. The rock drake spawn is definitely gone. Definitely some disappointing changes thus far.

Yes there did appear to be some areas that were devoid of dinos or at least very light on dinos.

[Rotiart]

Perhaps the Crystal Wyvern eggs?

[Hypersomniac]

I tried the Crystal Wyvern Eggs today, it didn't show taming progress when it ate them. I know the Crystal Heir Wyverns lay eggs, but I'm pretty sure they are the same as regular eggs. Not sure what else to try.

[Bob]

I kind of feel like they didn't mean to leave them in at all.

Not only do I expect not to see a taming alternative, I fully expect one of the next updates to the map completely remove basilisks.

[♥Ori♥]

None of the eggs on crystal isles work for basilisks. Already tried on my server. Well my tribemate tried

[moTom]

I think they are untamable on purpose on crystal isles...

[RobbEJay]

The devs did this with genesis, you couldn't take basalisks there either until they made it so magmasaur eggs worked, so its quite likely not on purpose and they'll hopefully do the same here with the wyvern eggs.

[Bob]

Originally posted by RobbEJay:

The devs did this with genesis, you couldn't take basalisks there either until they made it so magmasaur eggs worked, so its quite likely not on purpose and they'll hopefully do the same here with the wyvern eggs.

The difference is that genesis is an official paid DLC map.

Crystal Isles is a free, mod port map. They would have left rock drakes in if that wasn't a concern.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by Bob:

The difference is that genesis is an official paid DLC map.

Crystal Isles is a free, mod port map. They would have left rock drakes in if that wasn't a concern.

No they would not have, Wildcard doesn't care about most of the dlc creatures being in the other maps for the most part, just that they don't officially have the respective map's flagship creatures.

They made that mistake with Ragnarok having wyverns, but they've since avoided doing the same with the rock drake, reaper, managarmr, and magmasaur.

The less special ones like the griffin or basilisk they apparently only restrict while the dlc is still 'new', as they've arbitrarily had them removed from Valguero only to allow them in Crystal Isles and extinction.

[leonidas1210]

Originally posted by khanware:

I've heard they removed rock drakes from this map. How are you supposed to tame the basilisk without having a rock drake egg? Am I missing something here?

ah ♥♥♥♥♥....i forgot thats how you tame bask........i honestly don't know why the devs removed rockdrakes.....maybe it was because of spawning issues(i don't know how, they seemed fine in the mod)

[Bob]

Originally posted by RobbEJay:

Originally posted by Bob:

The difference is that genesis is an official paid DLC map.

Crystal Isles is a free, mod port map. They would have left rock drakes in if that wasn't a concern.

No they would not have, Wildcard doesn't care about most of the dlc creatures being in the other maps for the most part, just that they don't officially have the respective map's flagship creatures.

They made that mistake with Ragnarok having wyverns, but they've since avoided doing the same with the rock drake, reaper, managarmr, and magmasaur.

The less special ones like the griffin or basilisk they apparently only restrict while the dlc is still 'new', as they've arbitrarily had them removed from Valguero only to allow them in Crystal Isles and extinction.

They took rock drakes off of both valguero and CI... something tells me they care.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by Bob:

They took rock drakes off of both valguero and CI... something tells me they care.

Yes, about the map's flagship creature, just as I said. They care about them more than the others, hence the clear favoritism.

[Bob]

Originally posted by RobbEJay:

Originally posted by Bob:

They took rock drakes off of both valguero and CI... something tells me they care.

Yes, about the map's flagship creature, just as I said. They care about them more than the others, hence the clear favoritism.

I know rock drakes are heavily favored, but basilisks are also liked by many and have also been removed from valguero despite having an aberration area.