Pets lose 10 loyalty/hour. Bonded Pets lose 4 loyalty/hour. Issuing a command to a pet can result in a +1 loyalty if the command is successful. A loss of -3 loyalty if the command is not successful. The chance of issuing a successful command is based on your animal lore, animal taming and the pets current loyalty level. This is based on the base taming level of the pet. A pets maximum loyalty is 100. Feeding restores ?? of a pets loyalty. (Note I need to look this up, but I'd guess 10) So while working with your pets, training, etc. Make sure to feed your pets to keep them at maximum loyalty. Command spam can work in a pinch bit is very risky if the pet is already at a low level of loyalty.
Does feeding a pet 1 food 10 times in a row result in the same boost as feeding a pet a pile of 10 food at once?
Thanks for the concise response, chris. I too am curious if stacks of food increase happiness based on amount, or if they only do when feeding one at a time. (Peculiar meat excluded)
Yes stacking the meet you feed your pet (or gold) is just the same as doing the same amount one at a time. IE: I give 5 raw ribs at once, and that is the same as giving 1 piece 5 times.
Feeding a pet 1 or 1000 items is still one feeding act and results in only a single bump in loyalty gain. This has been on my research list for a while as it falls into the "tedium" category of classic designs. This is also why I restricted feeding peculiar meat to pets to a single item, vs a stack to avoid players wasting a stack of that rare item for only 1 feeding act.
I will have to test this later again but when I was training dragons I tested this out and when the dragon got to very happy for instance, I would feed only once a stack of ribs instead of one at a time and it was raised completely full on loyalty. Then I fed the other dragon 1 at a time the same amount and it took said amount to get to full loyalty.... Also I have noticed stacking gold with white wyrms also gives the same effect instead of feeding one gold at a time.
I may not have time tonight or even this week to test this but I am absolutely certain that I successfully stacked ribs to gain max loyalty. I forgot about dragons training once and the one was at very unhappy and I fed a stack of 10 ribs or something like that and with that one stack being fed he was brought back up to full loyalty. Now as far as peculiar meat goes, I have only fed that one at a time when bonding animals.
Alright I have confirmed that I am correct to some level on this. I tested this a couple times. I let a couple dragons get to rather happy. The one dragon I took six ribs and fed one at a time and that got him to wonderfully happy. I then took a stack of 10 ribs and fed it to the other dragon all at once. That dragon was then wonderfully happy. That confirms that feeding a stack does bring loyalty levels up more than one at a time as one rib won't bring a dragon from rather happy to wonderfully happy under any circumstance.
He's right. I've always operated under this assumption. The food you feed matters too, just like a watermelon fills your character up in one or two it will refill a horse a bunch as well.
I know to an extent that I am correct. As I said I had two drags at rather happy. I fed a rib one at a time to the one dragon and animal loring him after every rib I fed him. After 6 ribs he was up to wonderfully happy (not necessarily completely capped on loyalty but I stopped at 6 nonetheless). I then took a stack of 10 ribs and fed it to the other dragon which was also at rather happy, and his loyalty was restored completely. I say I am at least partially right because as I fed a stack of 10 I did not feed the exact amount that I did one at a time to the other dragon. Nonetheless I fed one single stack of 10 ribs one time to the other dragon and his loyalty was fully restored and there is no way that 1 rib would bring loyalty on a dragon from rather happy to wonderfully therefore there is certainly an added effect of stacking the ribs and feeding once as opposed to feeding it one at a time. I just spam all guard me now to bring loyalty up I never feed ribs but still a point worth making!
