The Website

This Website is dedicated to the profession of the Animal Tamer in Ultima Online (official website at http://www.uo.com). It started out as a simple thing which had little more than guild information on it. At some point I started adding taming information, since a lot of guildmembers kept asking me about various things, and the Stratics information was rather outdated at that point.

End of February 2000 Stratics added their Professions Forums, and from day one I was an avid poster on the Tamer Forum, with the goal of helping my fellow Tamers and provide better, more up to date information than the Tamer Essay. Ever since then the people of this forum have inspired me to add more details to the PRC website for the benefit of Tamers on all shards.

On June 2nd 2000 I became a Moderator for this board, since a lot of flames, trolls and personal attacks threatened to destroy the community of a place that quickly became a "home" outside of the game for a lot of people from different shards.

By the end of September I offered to update the taming requirements by skill and the Tamer Essay, which were completed about two weeks later. Today I am still keeping the Stratics material updated, am constantly seeking to publish new skill related material and to answer all the questions I see from aspiring Tamers, be it on the Stratics Tamer Forum or on the PRC Boards.

On October 4th, 2002 the our website is granted official fansite status.

On February 28th 2003 PRC publishes it's first official interview with Designer Oaks. (The interview is archived here.)

The Pacific Rangers Council

Our guild was founded end of December 1999 with a handful of tamers of all levels. Sir Lynxx was the first to join me in the endeavor of founding a tamer-only guild on our shard. PRC grew to be a fairly large guild and by June 2000 we reached the incredible number of 50 members.

Unfortunately, the larger our guild got, the more people were in it just for the name. The average guildmeeting saw about 10 to 15 members, mostly the same people every week. The rest of our "members" hardly ever showed up to meetings or events and I started getting complaints about certain folks from various other guilds. This was not what we intended to be!

So at one point I decided to wipe the guildstone completely and invited every person with a serious interest in the guild to join again if the new rules were acceptable to them. The result is a smaller guild with very dedicated members.

Mordanna the Tamer

Mordanna started her Taming career on April 7th, 1999 in Yew, with 0 skill in taming and little knowledge about the game mechanics. All she wanted to be was and still is a Tamer, but at this time she didn't know much about the profession. She spent long hours out in the woods around Yew, Britain and Delucia, just taming whatever animal she could attempt, regardless of difficulty. Tamers were a rare breed at this time and she had nothing but the Stratics Taming Essay to refer to for information.

On October 1st, 1999 she tames her first dragon. Around November 2nd, Mordanna hit a "Brick Wall" with a loud *thump*. Skill gains stop completely for approximately 3 weeks. Even her daily hours of taming practise won't bring any gains anymore at all. Yet she doesn't give up and keeps on taming for hours every single day: Giant Toads, Lava Lizards, Hellhounds. Paging a GM and sending an email to OSI, she hears the implementation of Skill Management will help her to gain again. The advice proves to be true when skill locks are finally active: setting all her skills except taming to down gets her "unstuck" and gains keep creeping up slowly again. On December 17th 1999, Mordanna gains her final 0.2, both off Giant Toads, in a time span of 15 minutes.

After several template changes, I am now in the progress of redesigning her skill set once again, this time including skills above Grandmaster level through the use of power scrolls.

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