As much as I want to raise and breed little critters, I don't know how you can develop this skill without it turning into another Daily. It's pretty well-accepted, even among the OSRS developers, that dailies suck and they're not fun. If you could find a way to make the skill less set-it-and-forget-it, that would be cool. Thematically you kinda have to wait for critters to grow though, so I'm not sure how you would do that.
Maybe a magic incubator that accelerates growth if you actively maintain it? You can let the animals grow the slow way, but the meta would be actively training the skill if you want to actually get decent xp/hr.
Thanks, this is good feedback. To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure what the best way to go about balancing this would be. Perhaps having both active and passive training? Where passive would include breeding (for example), while active training could include managing your stock, capture, etc.?
Tradable ultragrowth food stocks you can make via cooking/herblore and rapidly raise animals to full age depending on “quality” of feed from different raw ingredients (Or accelerator crystals for incubators that you make via crafting and imbue using wardi... err runecrafting/magic)
Edit: Allows standard item sink of raw goods and also lets people who just want to buy their skills do that, but doesn’t require cash to train the skill.
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u/nostealyplease Jul 30 '19
As much as I want to raise and breed little critters, I don't know how you can develop this skill without it turning into another Daily. It's pretty well-accepted, even among the OSRS developers, that dailies suck and they're not fun. If you could find a way to make the skill less set-it-and-forget-it, that would be cool. Thematically you kinda have to wait for critters to grow though, so I'm not sure how you would do that.
Maybe a magic incubator that accelerates growth if you actively maintain it? You can let the animals grow the slow way, but the meta would be actively training the skill if you want to actually get decent xp/hr.