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2 hours ago, Shockal said:

As much as I'd want to let players play their own music, the last thing I'd want them to do is deliberately play obnoxious sounds and annoy their ARK neighbors with it.

Make the music play only on their own game. Another ark player would just hear the battle theme, or whatever the standard song is for the speakers. Visual cues would let other players know what the tame was doing, they don’t need to hear exactly what you’re hearing. Maybe just have the song match the tempo of the song you’re playing.

This is an amazing idea. This is my favorite I’ve ever read, and this is the winner right here.
 

I’d like to add to this. Allow it to play our own custom songs on the speakers so we can play our favorite music in game. I really wanna see this thing do flashdance. Lol
 

Inside the saddle, you can craft a small boombox that the player can carry. It lets us play our music in game. It can be placed, and it could give a small buff, like an xp buff. 
 

Just for fun, I’d like the music from the box to change the idle speed of tames to match the tempo of the song, so it’s like they’re bobbing to the music. 

The Sauro should have a custom head/neck bobbing animation, because it’s cool, but also to help you track the tempo to make it easier to dance to. 

This thing looks too cool to only sing once every 20 steps. Make the bellow available from the start, and holding the button gives a sustained note. This starts a mini-game, and the longer you stay singing, the greater or stronger the buff. The buff or debuff would depend on the octave sang, so different songs and genre of music would give different effects. Singing to Elton John could possibly buff defenses and speed, while harmonizing with bone thugs could heal or do dot damage. 
 

The singing should disrupt corrupted creatures, debuffing them heavily, like light pets are to reapers. This should also extend to heavily debuffing gigas or charchars, maybe titans as well to make this a big tame killer. The high frequencies of the singing heavily hinders them.
 

This creature is a straight up bard.

I posted this on another submission, but I think it works here best. Have the saddle use live creatures and tames as ammo. Shoot out ichthy like torpedoes. Depending on what creature used as ammo, give them different effects and fire rate. They hit and do damage, then they stick around and fight who they hit. If they survive, they return to their dock, similar to the desert titan. It would be a way to pseudo tame ammonites, and give more uses for things like trilobites/mantas/ichthy/Cnidaria etc..

On 8/6/2023 at 12:42 PM, Walfeder said:

Saddle suggestion:

Submarine saddle which is able to fire missiles and torpedoes

Having a saddle with a docking bay for something like ichthy sounds cool. It could use tames or creatures like ammonites as organic ammunition that work like torpedoes with different effects based on the creature. Shoot the creature and deal damage, but afterwards have the creature fight for you, similarly to the desert titan. If they survive when they’re done, they return to their dock. It would be a pseudo way to tame stuff like ammonites/Cnidaria/trilobites, and give more uses to things like ichthy/mantas/kairuku.

Since this post is gaining more traction than mine, I’ll just post my ideas here.

Species: Hippocampus Sarmaticus/Leviathan

Time: Middle Miocene

Diet: Carnivore

Temperament: Aggressive

Here’s another attempt. I think The Center is a perfect map for this tame. The vast ocean, the underworld, all the air bubbles.

I feel Ark's oceans need a bit of love. What better way than with a new mount. Seahorses are pretty cool looking as well as sea dragons, and who wouldn't want to ride around on one. A saddled mount of course

They're like master ninjas, so this mount could have some sort of camo ability, maybe when they're within underwater vegetation. They could function similar to an underwater purlovia, and their first strike from being hidden could cause massive burst damage. Kinda like sneak damage. Because of this sneakyness, make all wild creatures non aggressive to it unless provoked. This includes the jellies. In fact, let's make this creature immune to jellies shock to have another mount to fight against them. Maybe even have cnidaria actively run away from them like the piranha does to the sarco. These could be the best biotoxin gatherers.

(A sea slug pic, but the patterns and appendages look cool, and I invision this ark creature taking visual cues from it)

Seahorses also are very tanky with their bone like ridges down their body. Instead of their body and tails being cylindrical, they're more square, thus able to take more damage and even be compressed and be able to bounce back unharmed. This means the ark creature could make for a very tanky mount with possibly even recoil damage. Add a good saddle for even more tanking. Seahorses also have great mobility, so it can control similar to an underwater Tapejara.

This is a very interesting video below about Seahorses.

Utility is a big thing the ocean needs too. With the males pouch, it could function as an underwater maewing, able to nurse or improve imprints. Maybe a player can use its pouch to be transported underwater and give oxygen. Again, immunity to jelly stings.

They have these cool prehensile tails too. They can use this to latch onto different things underwater to stay put, and enter a sort of turret mode. We can use these prehensile tails to grab small to some medium sized creatures, which has a multitude of uses, but also make it able to pick players underwater from their mounts. To balance this, make it ridden only or something.

These tails could have another purpose too. There aren't any underwater shoulder pets. Until they're grown, while they're still a baby/adolescent, they can use the tail to become a shoulder mount. Adding stun immunity or reduction, or adding armor and recoil damage to the player while assisting in battle with their attack/breath. The balance to this would be that it's temporary, until the baby reaches a certain size, then it auto dismounts. Killing cnidaria could make it grow faster, or feeding it biotoxin. It would speed up raising. You could ignore this mechanic to keep it smaller for longer to keep the shoulder benefits, because it's raise time could be long without using it.

With all these positives, maybe give the creature lower stamina, or make it opposite of the bear. Super fast burst speed that eventually slows down. Same with dps. Stupid high burst speed dps, that slows a lot over time.

The way I imagine it looking is some kind of Seahorse/Seadragon hybrid with some draconian features. This is ark afterall, and some dinos aren't 100% real world accurate, so we can spice this up a bit.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+dragon&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj_ttH9nMj8AhWTFmIAHQ8kBcAQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=sea+dragon&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIECCMQJzIKCAAQgAQQsQMQDTIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BAgAEAM6CAgAEIAEELEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToHCAAQsQMQQ1CBCFjmJGC-KWgAcAB4AIABe4gBgAuSAQM2LjiYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=WzzDY7-dA5OtiLMPj8iUgAw&bih=647&biw=412&client=ms-android-americamovil-us-revc#imgrc=t00DU5k3vLyQlM&imgdii=w_wkJPB5AToXmM

Another cool option would be some kind of underwater breath attack. Bubbles that stun or slow so they can assassinate prey, or superheated water jet, but I'd like for them to have some sort of poison breath. It would go with the assassin theme. This poison would accumulate in its inventory similar to acatina, maybe increasing production for a time with cnidaria kills stacking. We could coat our weapons or even dino claws with the poison to give special debuffs and inreased damage per hit for a time. This would benefit high attack speed dinos a lot like the raptor, giving more use for its faster attack buff from its alpha call.

5 minutes ago, Kamikaze36 said:

Dude, I literally just posted this a little while before you! I just want to know how to link my idea to yours so we can get a hippocampus voted up. If anybody knows how to help me link it, please do so so we can have more ideas added into this. Also, I just wanna promote my little sister’s drawing that she made for mine. Lol

Same. I posted mine earlier, a re upload of my suggestion from the vote that Rhynio won. I really want the seahorse concept to win, or a water tame at least.

3 minutes ago, SkyeBlueGaming said:

This feels like one of the most fitting choices

I agree. Either this suggestion, or my seahorse submission. I’m happy to see so many uploaded.

Species: Hippocampus Sarmaticus/Leviathan

Time: Middle Miocene

Diet: Carnivore

Temperament: Aggressive

Here’s another attempt. I think The Center is a perfect map for this tame. The vast ocean, the underworld, all the air bubbles.

I feel Ark's oceans need a bit of love. What better way than with a new mount. Seahorses are pretty cool looking as well as sea dragons, and who wouldn't want to ride around on one. A saddled mount of course

They're like master ninjas, so this mount could have some sort of camo ability, maybe when they're within underwater vegetation. They could function similar to an underwater purlovia, and their first strike from being hidden could cause massive burst damage. Kinda like sneak damage. Because of this sneakyness, make all wild creatures non aggressive to it unless provoked. This includes the jellies. In fact, let's make this creature immune to jellies shock to have another mount to fight against them. Maybe even have cnidaria actively run away from them like the piranha does to the sarco. These could be the best biotoxin gatherers.

(A sea slug pic, but the patterns and appendages look cool, and I invision this ark creature taking visual cues from it)

Seahorses also are very tanky with their bone like ridges down their body. Instead of their body and tails being cylindrical, they're more square, thus able to take more damage and even be compressed and be able to bounce back unharmed. This means the ark creature could make for a very tanky mount with possibly even recoil damage. Add a good saddle for even more tanking. Seahorses also have great mobility, so it can control similar to an underwater Tapejara.

This is a very interesting video below about Seahorses.

Utility is a big thing the ocean needs too. With the males pouch, it could function as an underwater maewing, able to nurse or improve imprints. Maybe a player can use its pouch to be transported underwater and give oxygen. Again, immunity to jelly stings.

They have these cool prehensile tails too. They can use this to latch onto different things underwater to stay put, and enter a sort of turret mode. We can use these prehensile tails to grab small to some medium sized creatures, which has a multitude of uses, but also make it able to pick players underwater from their mounts. To balance this, make it ridden only or something.

These tails could have another purpose too. There aren't any underwater shoulder pets. Until they're grown, while they're still a baby/adolescent, they can use the tail to become a shoulder mount. Adding stun immunity or reduction, or adding armor and recoil damage to the player while assisting in battle with their attack/breath. The balance to this would be that it's temporary, until the baby reaches a certain size, then it auto dismounts. Killing cnidaria could make it grow faster, or feeding it biotoxin. It would speed up raising. You could ignore this mechanic to keep it smaller for longer to keep the shoulder benefits, because it's raise time could be long without using it.

With all these positives, maybe give the creature lower stamina, or make it opposite of the bear. Super fast burst speed that eventually slows down. Same with dps. Stupid high burst speed dps, that slows a lot over time.

The way I imagine it looking is some kind of Seahorse/Seadragon hybrid with some draconian features. This is ark afterall, and some dinos aren't 100% real world accurate, so we can spice this up a bit.

https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+dragon&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj_ttH9nMj8AhWTFmIAHQ8kBcAQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=sea+dragon&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzIECCMQJzIKCAAQgAQQsQMQDTIECAAQQzIECAAQQzIECAAQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BAgAEAM6CAgAEIAEELEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToHCAAQsQMQQ1CBCFjmJGC-KWgAcAB4AIABe4gBgAuSAQM2LjiYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=WzzDY7-dA5OtiLMPj8iUgAw&bih=647&biw=412&client=ms-android-americamovil-us-revc#imgrc=t00DU5k3vLyQlM&imgdii=w_wkJPB5AToXmM

Another cool option would be some kind of underwater breath attack. Bubbles that stun or slow so they can assassinate prey, or superheated water jet, but I'd like for them to have some sort of poison breath. It would go with the assassin theme. This poison would accumulate in its inventory similar to acatina, maybe increasing production for a time with cnidaria kills stacking. We could coat our weapons or even dino claws with the poison to give special debuffs and inreased damage per hit for a time. This would benefit high attack speed dinos a lot like the raptor, giving more use for its faster attack buff from its alpha call.

I hope you all like and upvote.

1 hour ago, zanyzach19 said:

Continue to post this idea. It might not pick up this vote but I believe it suits the center more but that could just be me.

I didn’t post it because I didn’t think it fit Ragnarok, but I’m glad it’s still getting exposure. 

On 6/4/2023 at 5:51 AM, Tweeezs said:

(From @Jimmy_Yeet23#9668 in Ark Submissions Community)
Basically Nothosaurus is the top packhunting predator of the water being rideable and great for traversing in both water and land our first ideas was for it to have the ability spit out boiling water balls that on land can create mist and blind creatures. in its boiling sack you can make dyes and the new item bioluminescent dye! by putting in bio liquid/slime to make your own disco Dino’s. Nothosaurus also has a spiky big tail that can collect static electricity to stun creatures with. it would be both useful on land and in the water having a fish harvesting bonus

 

Design done by @Riskybiscuits#0485

and the boiler idea As for the taming method you need to kill its pack sneak up give it pearls for it to do a pearl check and if he want to play with it. when busy playing you need to feed it Tuso tentacles! But beware if it’s doesn’t like the pearl you give it and drop it don’t go up to it anyway it will get scared and taming effectiveness will be dropped. Just wait and look if he likes your play offer

Abilities: Notho has a fish buff with extra damage and harvesting against every fish in the sea To use Notho efficiently you need to warm it up in the sun by just placing it somewhere where the sun shines when fully warmed up Notho will show its beautiful glowing patterns and it will go from a dull gray dude to a bioluminescent colored up dude ( you’ll need to recharge it after every day ) Nothosaurus can pierce through armor with its boiling spit ignoring any creatures with armor and players with armor

Don’t let Notho go in the cold environments like snow biomes as it too can get cold and turn back in its dull grey version with low stamina and the cold itself can actually start damaging it! The tail needs to be charged up by brushing it against rock before use The bioluminescent regions on nothosaurus can be mutated as well ! Underwater it’s boiling bolts still work as the liquid is thicker than water it also glows cus of the bioluminescent slime in the spit! Notho also goes into its bioluminescent form when underwater and it has killed enough fish

I love every bit of this. With this visual flare, it’d be one of my favorite tames.

1 hour ago, Kaimen said:

I voted for this dinosaur when it was supposed to have thr ability to find fertilized eggs in the wild. Overall I liked that idea more than another aquatic attack dino (as literally most water creatures' sole purpose is damage or mobility), but it's still cool I guess. Hopefully a more visually appealing mount than those already in game. Also think if it has no other special abilities (besides meat preservation) that it shouldn't be too terribly sluggish on land. Maybe the ability to use its powerful tail to launch it out if the water for some special attack to fliers over water? Alligators and crocodiles do this sometimes to catch unsuspecting birds in low mangrove branches over water. 

The first pic already reminded me of Joanna from Rescuer’s Down Under, and this egg ability seals the deal 😁

I now want a Joanna of my own. 😊

14 hours ago, BruisingPikmin said:

Was vaguely sad not to see Gamera listed under the inspirations/references 😅

Yeah, that’s where my mind was going this whole time.