Maria's Endeavors

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Whiskers Skill Gain - Pet and Taming Prereq unlocked!

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Rover's Prereq is completed now! (at least on one of the Rovers)

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starting to up the prereq bar on the ancient ones.

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Cooper made it to level 5!
New Trick: Bow

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Kitty Criteria Skill Gain - Pet and Taming Criteria Completed!

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ancient exo strong's prereq criteria bar is stuck... support ticket is in on it several hours ago...no fix yet.

regular exo bar is slowly moving up... 77% now.

I've started using skill pills and other buffy stuff again... I'm only a few levels below where I can start using the boiga without massive penalties for being underskilled, so am starting the long journey of using some of the 100% 10 hour long skill gain buffers to help up the skills at the robot factory taming the hell out of nusul. Most of the resettlement containers are full, now working on filling up a couple of other boxes and vehicles before throwing them all in to storage so I can whip up more. I gotta say I really like these 100% skill gainers...

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Skill Gain - Pet and Taming criteria completed for ancient exarosaur!


funny glitch video from a few years back:

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another buggy ol video from a few years back...


now working on upping the bar on the level 3 exarosaur since level 1 is up there already as mentioned above...

Why posts this buggy video crap? Why not. It's a part of our shared history in this virtual universe, and shows the rest of the world the bullshit we put up with just by logging in some days.

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2nd exarosaur strong's prereq bar is stuck too...

Level 1 pet is stuck at 50.4%
Level 2 pet is stuck at 50.1%

Another support ticket is in on it.

Other pets don't seem to be getting stuck, so I think it's a problem just with the exarosaur strong?

increased a few more kittys up to the criteria completed. I'm working on one of the 10 hour 100% skill increase pills in this round of taming, so figure I'll get as many of the 'universal' pets that can be spawned on Arkadia up on their prereq bars while I'm here and taming anyways.

Burned through the few green pills I had left. Not sure if I'll use the red pills or refine em in to universal ammo. TTed a bunch of pills a while back to afford some of the pets back when I was on Rocktropia a while back since some of the pet purchases back then were at good prices in shops and I needed a few peds to up ped card balance for those purchases at the time. Probably should have just waited around to do more deposits, but that's ok..

Massively overprotected in gremlin around these little nusul, but using that armor for this run through since I get tired of fapping when wearing the graduation sets... also it seems that the armor decay comes back in loot more so than fap decay does.

Haven't tested it but see a few threads out there about that type of thing, so think there may be something to that theory. Could just be that the switching tools while fapping slows you down enough that you aren't getting to the double shrapnel and mini-waves as fast as those using the fapping method? Loot's still mighty small even on a good looter with these little guys, but a ped here or there every few hundred tames in loot isn't too bad of a return for just a few pecs of whip decay. I don't track returns too closely since it'd probably make me not want to continue to play if I did, lol. Only a couple more levels to go til I'm at least at the level where I can start using the adjusted boiga whip without the massive pentalty of not being in the sib window and having really crappy low attacks per minute because of that disadvantage.

Got the resettlement storage containers and vehicles stacked inside of one another so that I don't have to keep running back to storage to throw the pets in when these long 10 hour pill buffs are going on... Have started leaving boxes open while hunting so that it's easier to organize.

Tons of nusul pets are in Arkadia Underground storage, and many more will likely be there soon since I've decided to not really do the stable extractions every taming run like I used to do for now unless I need the essence then and there... so if anyone wants to buy them (I know, not a lot of demand for these low level pets) hit me up sometime. In game right now I'm mainly taming south of Arkadia's Robot Factory TP.

I'll probably just keep stockpiling loot til I can afford a shopkeeper to go in the apartments again... If anyone's interested in buying some of the 'dupe' pets that I've upped the 'criteria' bar to 'completed' on for skill gain pet & taming, let me know... Little pets like Kitty go up about 6% on the prereq bars per tame, so they are fairly easy to get up there... The 'hard' guys on the other hand usually only go up about .3% per successful tame, so it takes around 300 tames to get them to 100% unless these fluky bugs hit that get the bar stuck as appears to have happened to the exarosaur strong. None of the 'hard' ones are for sale at the moment since I don't have dupes of them... Kittys and Rovers show up in webshop box openings pretty often.... Kitty's more so than Rover. Good thing my avatar isn't allergic to cats like I am irl.

Out of all of the taming I've done since the beginning, I like the Robot Factory area the best so far... it's not too far from the tp, like the area north of Atlantis Archipeligo tp is... It's not all in one huddled little spawn like the bristlehogs are near Port Atlantis mall and Icarus... It's not super massively red radar like Panta ridge is on Rocktropia... It's not mixed spawn/sitting next to a pvp zone like the area around Argus... The nice brown non-vegetated ground makes it easier to see fruit, etc.

Toulan's little spot is my second favorite spot to tame next to this one so far... Toulan's little spawn next to the city is kind of annoying since it's next to a bunch of rocks, so you have to sometimes run around the rocks in circles to get to the next tameable critter... Not like that out here around the Robot Factory at all... nice open ares... There are some hills, but the spawn are spread out enough that that's not much of an issue.

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started another thread about the prereq bar being stuck... feel free to pm if you know the fix, or reply here or over there...

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Exarosaur strong's prereq bar is stuck? What needs to be done to move it?

Skill Gain - Pet and Taming criteria prereq bar is stuck on 50.1% on one Exarosaur Strong, and on 50.4% for another.

According to support this 'is not a bug,' even though it seems an awful lot like one to me since this is THE ONLY pet type I've come across so far in all my taming that needs for something more to be done than simply taming more pets to move this particular type of progress bar up higher towards Completed.

I moved a regular exarosaur up to completed between upping the bar on these two strong ones, so it seems to only be the exarosaur "strong" varient of the pet that has this extra criteria?

According to support "The criteria progress and the level of the pet is not correlated. You can have a level 1 pet and still fill the criteria bar to 100% for a higher level buff. If you are unable to fully fill the criteria bar, and it is "stuck" on for example 90%, you need to find the right activity to do with your pet in order to fill the last 10%."

Anyone that has recently successfully moved the criteria bar to completed have an idea on what needs to be done to move this along? Is it just feeding it more, or is it some combination of feeding it, hunting with it, or doing some action combo that will move it on up? Do you have to have it dancing as you tame x amount of critters, or something silly like that?

Seems interesting to me that one is stuck at 50.1 and the other at 50.4... you'd think they'd be at exactly the same point on the progress bar before getting stuck?... that makes me think it's more kills needed while pet is spawned, but not really sure on this?