Lesser Hiryu - Bonding with Bushido Characters

[Crossbreed]

Hiya, just wanted to ask for Tivo - can lesser hiryus bond with players that have the appropriate bushido? I gave them a bonding powder but it wasn't working for them. If they can't bond, might I suggest they are made able to?

[Amairgen]

Okay . . I looked into this and here is where the Lesser Hiryu stands at the moment (a change could be made).

a) Lesser Hiryu are susceptible to being tamed and controlled by characters that have 90 or higher skill in Bushido as they are intended to be a Samurai steed.

b) There are no 'Exalted' Lesser Hiryu in the realm.

c) Lesser Hiryu (not being exalted) cannot be shrunk and if you do not have high Taming then you cannot use a Pet Post to park them.


Looking inside the Lesser Hiryu script we find the following two sections:

1) This one indicates that Lesser Hiryu can be Controlled by characters with a Bushido skill of 90 or higher:

      public override bool OverrideBondingReqs()
      {
          if ( ControlMaster.Skills[SkillName.Bushido].Base >= 90.0 )
          {
              return true;
          }
          return false;
      }

2) This one indicates that Lesser Hiryu can be Tamed by characters with a high Bushido skill even though they have no Taming skill:

      public override double GetControlChance( Mobile m, bool useBaseSkill )
      {
          double tamingChance = base.GetControlChance( m, useBaseSkill );

          if( tamingChance >= 0.95 )
          {
              return tamingChance;
          }

          double skill = (useBaseSkill? m.Skills.Bushido.Base : m.Skills.Bushido.Value);

          if( skill < 90.0 )
          {
              return tamingChance;
          }

          double bushidoChance = ( skill - 30.0 ) / 100;

          if( m.Skills.Bushido.Base >= 120 )
          {

              bushidoChance += 0.05;
          }

          return bushidoChance > tamingChance ? bushidoChance : tamingChance;
      }


The question becomes, how can a Samurai (character with Bushido) obtain and 'store' a Lesser Hiryu as a steed as intended? I believe the best answer is the creation of an 'Exalted' version so they can be shrunk.

Unless anyone has a better solution . . I will look into this for a future reboot.

[tivo]

Cool sounds great.