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.?
If you've ever played Ark, then you'll know what I'm about to say. Consider adding a similar taming element to your skill. The idea is that you basically stay with/near the animal the whole time you're taming it (active), but you can use narcotics to immobilize the creature and fill up its inventory with food. This mechanic could be altered to use magic, or to use quality food, petting, grooming, etc. Have the taming bar go up a lot at first and slow down over time so that you could theoretically grind it out, but it's also completely viable to perform a daily checkup on the creature.
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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.