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Finally put together my 'test' of Mobile AA - my Bronto with platform holding nine Velonasaurs in turret mode. I walked them over the Rag wyvern trench and we led a bunch of wild wyverns to them. Worked well, so I'm going to either build a permanent Velo 'AA' platform near the trench, or an improved 'mobile AA platform'. Among the dead wyverns... two Alphas who gave up a ton of wyvern's milk. It was quite a sight to see the Velo's in action... next time I'll take screenshots. Forgot this time.

Mostly I agree. I only really take exception with the yuty, as I have found it to be one of the best tames for PvP. While it’s usually only utilized in PvE or boss fights, in PvP it can disorient a flyer, call wild creatures to its aid, and buff any and all of your other dinos. Essentially, the yuty has the ability to make any tame you have better. This is the reason it has always required a golden egg to tame. In many ways it is the most OP dino in the game because it can buff other OP dinos. The golden egg mechanic is ridiculous, but it made sense for a dino with the abilities a yuty has. It also made sense because it was only one dino and it’s not unreasonable to obtain enough golden eggs for one tame, one time. What is completely, totally and utterly unreasonable is requiring players to obtain golden eggs for the other creatures on the extraordinary kibble list (especially non-breedable tames) while a giga is as easy to kibble tame as a rex or bronto. The golden egg is also completely out of balance from the other eggs on the list. While wyvern and drake eggs may be somewhat difficult to obtain, they are already a part of normal play. If a player retrieves either a wyv or drake egg, they stand to gain a very high-powered tame, or at the least the highest tier kibble. All this with some actual fun or exciting gameplay. With the golden egg, all other activities must cease while the player is forced to focus on fishing a hesperornis exclusively (boring), it has only one valuable purpose, you may only receive a normal egg, and it has a rapid decay timer. It places more inconvenience and effort on island players than the other maps, and there is no alternative use for it. Additionally, hesperornis do not appear to spawn on Extinction, nor do wyv or drake eggs. The new kibble system seems rushed, lacks the logical progression of the previous system, and seems very poorly thought out. The stews should be removed from the kibble recipes, an additional tier should exist between exceptional and extraordinary, and only the giga, yuty and maybe the rock elemental should be in the highest tier.

Lots of progress today, mainly because my car was in the shop all day so I really didn't have anything better to do. First, I did get that tek raptor. I also stumbled across the tek quetz I knew was flying about, didn't expect to find it randomly though. I did solo tame it with an argent, tbh it only really worked because it was such a low level. But hey, tek quetz look cool and now I'll have a way to get more later. Also being able to airlift more things for taming, nice. I also said it was a future project but I was really in the mood for it so I went Creative Mode and built my spino ranch. It's a short hop from the breeding facility I just built, in that circular swamp area by green ob. Yes I did block a spino spawn on purpose. It's ok. I like this area for keeping spinos, not least because they'll literally always have their boost active. I then uploaded my spinos again and brought them down to the ranch. Sorting them out it was a bit sad to realize of the 6 I brought with me, 1 is Smaug, 2 are breeding projects, and the other 3 are basically unnecessary. I don't have the heart to cull them just yet, but I just don't need anything from them. It's been so long I honestly don't remember why I uploaded them. Having completed the ranch, it was time for phase 2 of the project. I logged out of The Island and loaded up Ragnarok, straight into Creative Mode again to build a taming outpost in spino canyon. This is why I'm using TI as my base map, because it has such limited value in terms of resources and animals. So now I can simply collect animals on other maps and bring them back to the relative safety and security of TI for safe keeping, breeding, whatever. And since the other "bases" are simply outposts I won't feel bad restarting those maps whenever I want in order to actually play. Clever, right? I thought so anyway. Once I got myself situated (I've not really spent much time on other maps so I did get a bit lost a few times) it was straight to work. Once they started spawning the spinos came in fast and hard. I tamed an astonishing 11 135+ spinos over the course of the afternoon and evening hours, plus a ptera for scouting and 2 barys for future breeding. One sadly got hit and will likely be culled, for now it'll serve as my cave mount. I uploaded them as I went and returned to TI afterwards to carefully bring down and sort my new additions and put together my current base stat build. I also went back to Pearl Lake, collected the spinos I had stored there and brought them back to the ranch for sorting. My current base stat build (in pts) is: HP 38, stamina 43, food 40, oxygen 37, weight 43 and melee 45. I feel like spinos are one of the few species who really needs all of their stats, with the arguable exception of food. It's a decently respectable start although ideally I'd like higher HP and 40+ in oxy would be great. Essentially I want a 40+ base stat build, which all of my color morphs will inherit once I combine them all into one animal. Spino taming does unfortunately take a lot of time and resources so I'll have to wait until next weekend to try my luck with improving my stats. In the meantime I'll likely be knocking off some smaller building projects. I'm already second guessing dilo breeding, sure it's a for fun project but for almost the same amount of effort I can do so many other things. Well, there's no real rush so we'll see.

Thats the thing tho, i want to take part in the endgame kibble, tames, ect. I also want to tame everything on every map. The yuty is a must for boss battles, i kno this, but outside of that 1 use its a dud. Just like thylas hav 1 use, theyre ur means to ur boss saddles possibly. But 1 use that u use only rarely doesnt exactly seem special. I could say good for me, no need, but id rather it b built better for everyone...Not to mention i still want to collect them. As for the boa eggs, they still b easier then these golden eggs. My other beef is the progression seems off badly. Once im riding a wyvern im probably not going back to a griffin. Once i have a wyvern or giga ect im not gonna b riding a thyla 99.9% of the time. Y, because im already riding something better before im even making this kibble. Thats just wrong, and to some degree u understand what im saying because what u said about the thyla.

I am similarly confused as salty. Onimusha, if you think the last kibble tier dino's are useless why are you complaining? Sounds like you will never tame them, if that's the case then the difficulty of the last tier won't effect you. Making the second to last tier -your- last tier. Which is relatively easy to obtain. Personally, the way I see the end game being played the Yuty's buff (+25% to melee of your dinos, I believe) is -HUGE-. Without it you would be forced to spend that much more time breeding for mutations. In other PvE games I've played these buffs are essential to being able to beat encounters. I don't see this being any different. I see spending the time it now takes to tame a Yuty as an easy trade off to being able to finish the PvE game. I agree the giga should be in the last tier. The ease of gathering meat brings you into the realm of being able to mass raise meat eating dinos. Regardless of not being able to be used in the PvE end game I think the giga is well worth the effort of being in last tier. Thyla's are useful, but not on the same level as giga/yuty. I would value them at slightly less than rexes, but maybe still worthy of being in the same tier. I can't speak to griphons as I've mostly played on center/island. Only ever gone to Rag to collect loot from desert crates(which I didn't need to ascend or bet the bosses for, as I haven't yet). As a side note, those of you who complained about titanaboa eggs being not worthy of last tier tames, I hope you enjoy laying in the bed you made.