A lot of people get confused when they hear about control percentages and
pet loyalty. Those are two different factors that need to be taken into
consideration for controlling a pet:
Loyalty:
A pet's loyalty, also described as "happiness" is the state of
your pet you can determine by using the Animal Lore skill on it and can vary
between "wonderfully happy" and "confused". The lower your
pet's loyalty, the harder it is to succeed in commanding it. It is extremely
hard to get a pet out of '"confused" state without feeding it.
Spamming a command is more likely to drop loyalty even faster and cause the pet
to go wild. The best way is to feed the pet immediately.
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Loyalty levels: |
"wonderfully happy" - maximum loyalty
"extremely happy"
"very happy"
"rather happy"
"happy"
"content"
"somewhat content"
"unhappy"
"rather unhappy"
"extremey unhappy"
"confused" - in extreme danger to go wild |
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Orneriness:
The control difficulty of a pet, depending on your skills in Taming and
Lore and the pet's taming difficulty. The higher your skills and the lower the
pet's difficulty, the easier it is to control and vice versa. The calculation
of your control ability was explained by Oaks of the OSI dev team as follows:
- Both your Animal Lore and Animal Taming skills must be within 5 points of
the minimum skill required to tame the pet to be able to control it. This means
a Unicorn, which requires at least 95.1 skill to tame, could only be controlled
by someone with at least 90.1/90.1 Taming/Lore. The skills are weighted: 80%
Taming, and 20% Lore, so you could also control a Unicorn with 87.7/100.0
Taming/Lore, or any other combination of those skills that adds up to 90.1
using the above percentages.
- At 90.1/90.1 Taming/Lore, the Unicorn will listen 20%.
- At 95.1/95.1 Taming/Lore, the Unicorn will listen 70%.
- At 100.0/100.0 Taming/Lore, the Unicorn will listen 99%.
- There is linear progression between those three points.
- Previous owners no longer affect control, even though it raises the minimum
skill to tame. So, a Unicorn with 3 owners would still follow the above rules.
For a more detailed explanation of how your control ability is calculated,
read the page about "Control Ability" in the "Pet Handling"
section.
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