Tamed animal should be ordered to wait with the horse

[πολέμαρχος]

Coz everytime i'm going into assassination mode, and sneaky and stuff, the animals gets in the way. And i don't want to go search for a bear after every assassination run, because i have to untame ...

:D I'm going in sneaky, in a bush, and there's a huge bear next to me, his breath is louder than my footsteps? Not very conceptual sneakiness :)

So just let us command it to sit with horse, he becomes inactive and don't trigger defense mode, unless i go to it and tell it to activate.

[πολέμαρχος]

Or you can order it to go away for one day or something, so whenever you're done and you need it say, you can meditate

[pokerhabs]

My main prblems with tamed animals is that they will always give the finishing blows on knocked out enemies you really wanted on your ship.

Also, having a tamed animal makes me follow roads and flat lands since they will insta-die from small heights falls.

Edit : Also I would like to have Alpha Lynx in that game.

[😎Astran😾]

I'm enslaving women ... I mean - capturing mercenaries to work as lieutenants - and the last thing I need is a giant bear mauling them to death in seconds. Although I could use it for fort assaults. Could be great to have a storage for pets or link them to certain equipment layouts.

[gotthammer]

a more detailed/'involved' system for pets and mercenaries and the ship's crew would be nice (e.g., manage their gear & attire), even if that means spending on them w/ gold & resources.

In the 280 or so hours I've played, I think I've only bothered to have a tamed animal for less than an hour total. Felt too much of a hassle.

[CommandDork]

Same here. Over 300 hours in and haven't even bothered with the taming animals feature. I'm a mercenary by nature and prefer to work alone. A tamed animal will never satisfy me in the way, say, a fine cigar might.

[😎Astran😾]

Originally posted by CommandDork:

prefer to work alone

That's because you've never realized how you may actually skip the work completely because a good bear can do all the killing.

[darkdisciple1313]

I'll tame only if I'm going into a situation out in the open where I know I'm going to get my butt handed to me otherwise (say, with three mercenaries all on the same road as I am, gunning for me). Having a friendly bear Gibbs-smacking the confetti out of at least one of them sometimes turns the tide in my favor.

Of course, it would be wonderful if you could use the skill to tame Phoibe: "That's a good girl, swim back to wherever Markos is, that's a good little pest, now bugger off."

[d.frye728]

So, you're saying your tamed bear refuses to act stealthy? The nerve lol

[πολέμαρχος]

Originally posted by d.frye728:

So, you're saying your tamed bear refuses to act stealthy? The nerve lol

:) EXACTLY :)

[̩̥͓͔͒]

Originally posted by πολέμαρχος:

Coz everytime i'm going into assassination mode, and sneaky and stuff, the animals gets in the way. And i don't want to go search for a bear after every assassination run, because i have to untame ...

:D I'm going in sneaky, in a bush, and there's a huge bear next to me, his breath is louder than my footsteps? Not very conceptual sneakiness :)

So just let us command it to sit with horse, he becomes inactive and don't trigger defense mode, unless i go to it and tell it to activate.

Super easy fix, don't use that ability, don't even use the points for it.

[Sentient_Toaster]

Originally posted by Astran:

That's because you've never realized how you may actually skip the work completely because a good bear can do all the killing.

Seems like you need to invest three ability points (to tame bears) and an engraving slot (for the +health/damage to tamed animals).... and maybe hunt for an alpha to tame? I know that at least ordinary lions don't survive for very long at all when released in the middle of a camp, let alone a nation fort. That might be related to the enemy archers/crit build bug, though.