Taming/ loot/ MA's approach to Communication

[P-J]

Players taming animals have noticed for some time that they haven’t had loot when they tamed an animal. I think most people put this down to a ‘bug’, a run of bad luck or just maybe MA had altered the rules without telling us. Viagra and a couple of other people had a discussion on this on the forum a couple of days ago – and there didn’t seem to be any hard info from MA – just a common experience of those people taming:

I put a support case in (giving MA the benefit of the doubt)


“Hi,

Could you clarify why I don't get any loot when an animal is tamed? In the past I got the normal items/ peds - now I don't get anything!! I thought this was just a 'run of bad luck' - but it has gone on for far too long!!!

Thanks”

and got a rapid response:

“Hi, your not supposed to get loot from a tamed animal.
Regards,
Entropia Support”


For me this response is similar to the Axe x1 issue when they changed the stats for the Axe to remove electrical damage – because it wasn’t supposed to happen. That change created a lot of heat and fury on the forum.

Now MA can change anything in the game – any way they like and if the reason is logical or they provide a reason most of us would accept it.

This time around MA – rather than communicating with us up-front – they seem to have attempted to push this change in under the radar and use the mushroom method of management – feed them dung and keep them in the dark.

I personally feel that this (yet again) shows that the way MA communicates with us (outside of the support system) demonstrates a lack of respect for us as customers.

[sob]

i would like to hear a comment from Cornelia Sundström about this. things shouldnt have to change like this without us getting informed

[Sonya Heart]

The last animal i tamed I got loot from and i thought we were supposed to.

These replies from support get shorter and shorter. Why is everything such a damn secret.

[kira-red]

so now they've decided that taming animals don't loot.

MA are such lamers some times.

it costs MORE to tame an animal than just to kill it. further, tamed animals are pretty much worthless.

if I could ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING with my tamed animal I might accept that it was okay for it not to loot.

in any event, if this is the case, the message that comes up should be be "you cannot loot this creature" rather than "this creature contained no loot" - it might have before I hit the tame action.

[Titus Wolf]

well, that of course makes no sense unless loot is inside the stomach of the dead animal and requires it to be dead to loot. or, i guess it could just be a way for MA to make tons of money off of nutrio in training, whip decay, and any fapping or armor decay incurred. hmm... im guessing the second is closer to the truth. this pretty much kills the idea for anyone to tame as its a 100% loss. how does that help MA? i quit a month or two ago as it seemed pointless and was putting me in the poor house. looting the mob was the only thing that helped at all with the costs as very few people buy them.

[AJack10600]

It just proves once again that MA just change the loot system as they like and they change it all the time to adjust for a constant cash flow ... u can bet on that ...

[MisterDepositer]

really what use does taming animals have?
as i see it we been waiting for something usefull as to what a tamed animal can do,,still waiting ...waiting and waiting...but keep feeding them
decay on the (L) whip to get em plus what u have to feed them to keep em

can anyone tell me how long is been since we were actually able to tame and keep a so called pet?

[Fade]

any yet, we keep playing....

Selling taming skills for cheap...


What a fecking ripoff. It is preposterous this was done without informing the players, and (again) just waiting for us to "discover" this by ourselves.

Perhaps this was the upgrade in taming Marco mentioned a few days ago?

[aia]

I just htought that it was my general no-loot luck I didn't get any loot from my last tamed animals I've used to do some low-level taming (can't tame anything larger than daikiba mature), and hoping to get at least a few pecs out from my L whip while spending some time skilling with my viper whip