ARK: Survival Evolved

ARK: Survival Evolved

Immersive Taming
Dapearl 16 May, 2021 @ 7:25pm
Some ... erm ... suggesions ... or actually ideas? I dunno just some thought
Hello. First off I wanted to say thank you so very very much for this amazing mod! It has completely changed the game for me in an exponential way. This along with S+ and Kraken's are me absolute MUST HAVE mods in order for me to play. So ... I've enjoyed this mod sooo much I was having thoughts and ideas. Now I am coding incompetent in every way so I don't know if any of this is even feasible, but I thought it might be cool to maybe offer some ideas that may or may not be added to this ... or possibly Ark 2 if you ever decide to do this again.

So ... the idea of the immersive taming is AWESOME! However, I was thinking in some ways it can be easy due to the fact there are a limited number of different baits. Yes I know you can limit and modify the types of baits needed for each dino to fine tune the experience but I was thinking what if we could add other stuff to the immersive training mechanic that could make us use some of the stuff that falls to the wayside with the use of this mod.

For example ... Torpid and all the different torpid associated mechanics. I used to collect the stuff religiously and make narcotics and stuff all the time until this mod, but now I just throw away the stuff. What if there was something where you would need to add some type of narcotic ingredient to the baits for certain dinos in order for the bait to work? Or would it even be possible where you have to stun a dino to a certain torpidity level BEFORE you could start feeding it the baits? Like ... torpidity has to rise to 50% before baits become effective. OR need to feed a torpid bait FIRST before you will be able to feed the immersive baits (Dunno what else to call them .. sorry) Could maybe a torpid ingredient be added to a bait kinda like the way certain things can be added to clothes like the dino tracker or weapon mods?

If possible this concept could maybe be expanded to other things. Like ... certain dinos REALLY enjoy the flavor of certain types of their prey so if possible to add some type of drop on certain dinos that need to be added to the bait. THe reason for this is to help make some of the ignored and not so useful dinos maybe become more involved and useful. Perhaps a certain type of dino like compy or trilo flavor so now you HAVE to go hunt those to add those ingredients to the bait. This would kinda be an expansion of the above adding Torpid idea. Perhaps make these changes to require the use of other ingredients that collect alot and are not utilized alot like leech blood or meg teeth. Make the ingredients needed be stuff that is only used in a limited capacity so you can have fun again using and collecting those things.

On that note ... perhaps maybe require toys or tools that need to be used during the immersive training process that ... and this is just a stupid for instance ... like a ball of yarn toy for feline type dinos that you gotta use once the dino is friendly. Or make a toy that's its natural enemy and you would have to hunt that enemy that would drop an ingrdient needed to make that toy. To be clear ... maybe Allo's really hate Pachy's so you need to hunt a pachy and get a dropped pachy hide that could be used for a chew toy that helps during the training.

Mostly I was thinking additions like these could add more investment in all the gazillions of ingredients we have around while also making the (already great) immersive training more immersive and then we would could have more incentive to hunt down other dinos that we end up ignoring as we get higher in level.

That's all I can think of for now. I'm sorry if this is not very coherent. I've never posted like this before but I was so impassioned cuz this mod has made me enjoy my time in Ark sooo much! Hope this word gets to you or someone and maybe we this discussion can spark some more great ideas from a talented modder out there :)

oh oh!!!! I just thought of another thing ... something that would enable us to use some of the more unused or too specific use type tools like the lasso. Like maybe we need to use the lasso to hold down certain types of dinos or flyers ... or imitate the clinging mechanic of Deinos and creeate a glove or something that makes us cling to running or fast dinos (eg. equus) that you have to ride and while riding THAT'S when we can apply the immersive bait.

Ack .. ok I'll stop now. Once again thanks for the wonderful mod ... and if you read this thanks for reading my insane ramblings!