Creature Handler Archive
Thread: Stopgrowth command? Stunt creature growth? I know this was mentioned before?
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Tenny
Sat Nov 15, 2003 9:02 am
#27
I have a GCS and I don't recall ever getting this dialog. now it's too big to mount, what Can I do? 
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Vicmann
Tue Nov 18, 2003 2:30 am
#28
Still dunno what to do about this.. I have some critters growing in datapad and soon they'll be too bug for anyone but a CH.
Chillwillzx
Tue Jun 29, 2004 2:20 am
#29
I took out my giant carrion spat fullgrown at 18 and got the message i had to stunt growth if i planned on using as mount so i did now its at lvl 12 so this means its not a measure made to help make pets for the non chs, why they did this is beyond me because i too wanted it to be as big as possible. Offcourse it could be they wanted to make it a viable option as a beginner ch pet.
BlindTyldak
Tue Jun 29, 2004 4:01 am
#30
No, they wanted to make it a viable option for moving around. 
The model for a giant carrion spat is just too plain tall at full growth with a rider, so they had to make it so you could halt its growth one size shorter. It makes it a comparable difference of RW 2 feet in height, ot so. It has nothing to do with making it a more viable low-level mount or anything like that, as its still an aggressive creature.
The model for a giant carrion spat is just too plain tall at full growth with a rider, so they had to make it so you could halt its growth one size shorter. It makes it a comparable difference of RW 2 feet in height, ot so. It has nothing to do with making it a more viable low-level mount or anything like that, as its still an aggressive creature.And don't go by any of the info in this thread, its eight months old and a lot has changed.
Grawarr
Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:25 am
#31
a) The 'stunt growth' command is ONLY usable (currently) on Giant Carrion Spat - due to their size, they can get TOO big to be a mount (due to saddle/tack graphics I assume). The option appears when the creature is at, or above a specific creature level (8-12??) - the point where if it gets one 'growth-day' bigger, the saddle won't fit. If you stun it's growth, it will no longer grow in levels, but it will remain mountable. If you do NOT stunt the growth, it will no longer be mountable, but it will grow in level (and in size), to it's natural max level.
b) So far no other creature in game has this feature (one did, but that was a bug).
c) There is no other way to 'stunt' growth of any other natural tamable creature. Once a natural tamable 'non-agressive' creature reaches ABOVE 10th lvl, it will no longer be usable by non-CHs.
d) Agressive pets are ONLY usable by CHs.
e) Bio Engineers have a set limit of "skins" that they can make pets with, and each skin has a MIN creature level that can be created. If a non-CH wants a pet that a natural version is either agressive, or too migh level when fully grown, he/she should seek out a Bio Engineer, and see if they can make a pet using a similar skin as the one they desire.
f) All pets, whether BE or natural, will grow to full maturity in 10 days - less if the pet is called each day and or fights (usually 9 days).
YES, the ability to 'stunt' the growth of any/all pets would be a nice feature - mostly benefitting taming natural pets as mounts for non-CHs...HOWEVER...
If that were put in - for ALL pets - then in a very short amount of time you'd seeEVERY NON-CH running around with a 10th lvl Rancor (just an example - natural ones are agressive, not sure about BE rancs - but you get the idea).
For mount pets, yes, I like the idea!
MrHawat
Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:00 am
#32
a) The 'stunt growth' command is ONLY usable (currently) on Giant Carrion Spat - due to their size, they can get TOO big to be a mount (due to saddle/tack graphics I assume).
I never understood that statement from the Dev's. They say it is too big but you can mount and ride a Savage Humbaba which is much bigger.
If a non-CH wants a pet that a natural version is either agressive, or too migh level when fully grown, he/she should seek out a Bio Engineer, and see if they can make a pet using a similar skin as the one they desire.
If the wild version of the creature is aggressive, then so is the skin the BE uses. They can tweak CL on non aggressive pets for non-ch but aggressive is aggressive.
I think you get the message on the Giant Carrion Spat when you try to call it at level 7. If you leave it in you data pad and do not try to call it until it passes this level or becomes full grown, you will not be able to mount it, even if it already has a saddle. This is one on the only creatures that can be mount tamed as soon as it is tamed.
Wallach1
Tue Jun 29, 2004 7:56 am
#33
From what I've seen, it only works on the Large Carrion Spat. All other pets just grow from what I've seen.
MuOne
Tue Jun 29, 2004 8:47 am
#34
I stunted my Giant Carrion - it is cl12 and it shows a max cl of 18 so it stopped at 12, i had one I didnt stunt and let it grow to 18, because I didnt know what the deal was first time round, fully grown they are enormous, Rancor height.
Matsubaa
Tue Jun 29, 2004 11:35 am
#35
It isn't for non-CH. It's because only certain creature *sizes* are mountable and size is linked to level. So some creatures are mountable even though their adult size is too big to be mounted. When you reach the point where a pet is at it's maximum mountable size it will prompt you to stunt their growth or let them grow into an unmountable adult.
Vicmann wrote:
There is supposed to be a way to stop the growth of a creature at 60%, or something like that. Meaning that it will stay at a level useable by a non CH as a mount, any of the mount critters are supposed to be able to have their growth "stunted" for non CH's.
Well.. of course there is nothing on this anywhere in patch notes. And nothing on it in the "Official Mounts Guide".
What's up with this command? Does it exist?
There has to be a way for us to stop all the mount creatures at a low enough level for non CH to use. As it is now, they might, once trained as a mount, grow to a certain level and stop. No way to know yet, as I just opened up all my bioengineered pets and "tamed" them today, so they're not even trainable as mount yet.
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