Taming Alphas

[Ayumae Karo]

Yes I do believe alphas should be tamable. No I do not believe that they should receive a stat nerf when tamed. However, I do believe it should be an overwhelmingly difficult process, and here's some ideas I thought that could go into the taming process:

1) Alphas only tamable by prime meat. Prime meat, cooked prime or prime jerkey *can* be difficult to get, or at least its harder than finding the nearest dinosaur and butchering it for the meat you didn't bring. This makes it so that there's at least a little preparation work.

2) Alphas won't tame with other people or dinos nearby. Not a HUGE area, maybe about 20-30 meters or so. They're so wild, they're untrusting. It would be considered a miracle if ONE person were able to gain the servitude of the beast, let alone a group of people/dinosaurs.

3) Make taming effectiveness mean something more than a stat boost. Maybe towards the end of taming, your taming effectiveness translates into your percent chance that you actually tame the creature. And, if the taming effectiveness drops to 0, you can't tame the creature on that particular attempt.

4) Make it take an incredibly long amount of time. Like, one or two hours for a low level alpha at the least. Of course, longer for higher level alphas. It already takes some hours to tame high level dinos that aren't alphas, so it would naturally take longer than that.

5) An abundance of narcotics needed to keep the thing unconscious. Have its torpor deplete way fast, to the point that it becomes a challenge to tame the creature AND keep an eye on your surroundings, opening yourself up to attack.

6) Make it still ferocious even after being tamed. One of the new dinos is possibly bringing in this mechanic, maybe tamed alpha predators would have the exact same mechanic. You know, tossing you off on every other occasion its health happens to get low and it gets pissed. Maybe even make it so it spontaneously becomes wild, and while not attacking you or your dinos/allies, doesn't listen to commands at all and attacks everything in sight, maybe even making knocking it out again a requirement to make it tame once more.

7) Make it so that whenever an alpha is being tamed, it gives off a decently large glow that can be seen from a fair distance. That, combined with the taming effectiveness and duration of taming idea above, could make it incredibly hard (if not impossible) to tame an alpha without other tribes trying to ruin your progress (for, of course, not wanting other tribes to have a very dangerous alpha predator).

A combination of two or three of these suggestions should make it rather hard to tame an alpha. All of them would make it so hard, that it is damn near a life achievement and if someone could tame an alpha after all that the honestly deserve to have it.