Taming Efficiency

[The_Penguin]

So I was taming a Carbonemys today. I knocked it out with a slingshot and I started out with about 88% taming efficiency. At the end of the taming process, I only had about 18%. I pretty much picked my part of the island clean for narcoberries, as I wasn't prepared beforehand, but at the very end I resorted to punching the poor turtle to get it's torpor up. This badly reduced the taming effciency.

I understand I probably should've gotten the narcoberries before I tamed it, but that would've only helped the end-result slightly. See, force feeding narcoberries to a dino doesn't help efficiency whatsoever.

Are there ways to increase taming efficiency after knocking-out a dino? If not, can someone please produce some kind of list of what berries are each dino's favorite?

[bobeagle77]

I think Taming needs to be balance too. Carbonemys are hard to tame in my experience. They take more than 30 minutes, for a lvl1.

[ll_Vaporware_ll]

Originally posted by bobeagle77:

I think Taming needs to be balance too. Carbonemys are hard to tame in my experience. They take more than 30 minutes, for a lvl1.

All the dinos need some time adjustments, even if only slightly.

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by bobeagle77:

I think Taming needs to be balance too. Carbonemys are hard to tame in my experience. They take more than 30 minutes, for a lvl1.

I started out with a level 9, so it took a bit longer than 30 minutes I guess. It would be great if the devs could balance things out so I don't get dinos with really crappy stats.

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by Sweet Parade:

Originally posted by bobeagle77:

I think Taming needs to be balance too. Carbonemys are hard to tame in my experience. They take more than 30 minutes, for a lvl1.

All the dinos need some time adjustments, even if only slightly.

What would you recommend?

[Savantster]

Efficiency drops more for foods they don't like, per item eaten. There's a thread of "which dino likes what food", but I don't know if I trust it.

Initial efficiency is affected by initial health at time of taming, more damaged means less efficiency. Hitting it (damaging it in any way) drastically drops efficiency, too. Punching it to keep it out was the main problem.

I had a turtle start at 80%, and I cut down a tree it was stuck on.. even though I never got feedback that I hit it, apparently I did and it lost 1/2 it's health in the process, and efficiency dropped to 25%. Pro-tip, don't cut down trees until AFTER the tame is complete.. :/

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by Savantster:

Efficiency drops more for foods they don't like, per item eaten. There's a thread of "which dino likes what food", but I don't know if I trust it.

Initial efficiency is affected by initial health at time of taming, more damaged means less efficiency. Hitting it (damaging it in any way) drastically drops efficiency, too. Punching it to keep it out was the main problem.

I had a turtle start at 80%, and I cut down a tree it was stuck on.. even though I never got feedback that I hit it, apparently I did and it lost 1/2 it's health in the process, and efficiency dropped to 25%. Pro-tip, don't cut down trees until AFTER the tame is complete.. :/

Pro-tip noted. I saw that thread too, but it seems like people are really confused as to which foods certain dinos like. Don't the devs have this information posted somewhere? Hasn't this game been online long enough that people would reach a consensus on what dinos like best?

[=7CAV=PVT.Binks.J]

Narcotics are your friend when taming. 1 Narcotic will increase Torpidity by 40 points. Extremely useful with harder to tame DInos.

[The_Penguin]

Originally posted by theskull07:

Narcotics are your friend when taming. 1 Narcotic will increase Torpidity by 40 points. Extremely useful with harder to tame DInos.

Thanks for the info. Do the narcotics effect the taming efficiency?

[=7CAV=PVT.Binks.J]

Originally posted by The_Penguin:

Originally posted by theskull07:

Narcotics are your friend when taming. 1 Narcotic will increase Torpidity by 40 points. Extremely useful with harder to tame DInos.

Thanks for the info. Do the narcotics effect the taming efficiency?

Not as bad as force feeding 5-10 Narcoberries every couple of mins.

[bobeagle77]

Maybe Taming Times for lvl 1 Dinos
Weak Dinos 10-15 minutes example: Dilophosaurus Phiomia
Normal Dino 20-30 minutes example: triceratops Carbonemys
Strong Dino 30-40 minutes
Mega Dino 40-50 minutes
And of course the higher its level the harder to tame

[Painsen]

narcotics dont effect tame efficiency at all.. thats the best part of them.

[Splosions]

Taming efficiency goes down no matter what you do it seems, even when the dino eats because it is hungry the efficiancy goes down. It is a dumb stat that doesnt seem to work right for anyhting

[Dizzee]

A lot of confusion in this thread.
efficiency always goes down. It goes down each time the dino you are taming eats something.
To get the maximum efficiency you need to feed the dino the food it prefers.
To put this into perspective (re the original post) a level 1 Carbonemys takes 47 minutes to tame on berries (such as done by the original poster).. it has to eat 105 berries, and each time it eats a berry the efficiency goes down and this is the most inefficient way to tame it... using its favorite food (ptera kibble), it only eats 8 kibble and is tamed in less than 10 minutes.

It is really best to only use kibble (whenever possible).. and taming Carbonemys early game is a real noob thing...

lastly... balancing out... as this is a multiply player game things have to be a challenge.. some servers allow quick taming but on the official servers you have times such as 14 hours (inefficiently): 2:30 hours (efficiently) taming some of the higher lvl dinos... if that is too much then.. as stated... there are other servers.

[wizardx6]

Originally posted by SlightlyMe:

A lot of confusion in this thread.
efficiency always goes down. It goes down each time the dino you are taming eats something.
To get the maximum efficiency you need to feed the dino the food it prefers.
To put this into perspective (re the original post) a level 1 Carbonemys takes 47 minutes to tame on berries (such as done by the original poster).. it has to eat 105 berries, and each time it eats a berry the efficiency goes down and this is the most inefficient way to tame it... using its favorite food (ptera kibble), it only eats 8 kibble and is tamed in less than 10 minutes.

It is really best to only use kibble (whenever possible).. and taming Carbonemys early game is a real noob thing...

lastly... balancing out... as this is a multiply player game things have to be a challenge.. some servers allow quick taming but on the official servers you have times such as 14 hours (inefficiently): 2:30 hours (efficiently) taming some of the higher lvl dinos... if that is too much then.. as stated... there are other servers.

How did you find this thread? It's almost a year old....