Hunting Party: For each person in group (beyond 1), who has a level 3 barn, gain an additional caged animal. Cannot exceed more than 5 additional animals per trap.
That is my proposal to promote grouping for trapping, and fit within the flavor of the building. It limits opportunity for abuse by 1: requiring players to have a level 3 barn to contribute/benefit, and 2: does not allow for raid group farming. Only people in the group with the cager count towards this. It could also be set that only one trap can affect the beast so you are not getting 25 cages per 5 man group. It makes trapping in groups easier so you don’t have to fish for the sweet spot after someone initially traps.
Since folks can get animals faster, they will be less likely to stay in the area farming for extended periods of time. No, there is nothing to prevent them from camping out to collect 100’s of animals, but if they do, they will be less likely to be crowding this area again anytime soon after the camp session, so end result is still less crowding.
There is not much you can do about folks who still want to kill your animal before you can cage it. Making it immune to damage from outside sources to the taggers causes other issues, so if you run into those kind of griefers, you just need to deal with them as folks have in the past (insert your chosen method here).
Anyhow, that is my 2 cents. Thoughts?
That is my proposal to promote grouping for trapping, and fit within the flavor of the building. It limits opportunity for abuse by 1: requiring players to have a level 3 barn to contribute/benefit, and 2: does not allow for raid group farming. Only people in the group with the cager count towards this. It could also be set that only one trap can affect the beast so you are not getting 25 cages per 5 man group. It makes trapping in groups easier so you don’t have to fish for the sweet spot after someone initially traps.
Since folks can get animals faster, they will be less likely to stay in the area farming for extended periods of time. No, there is nothing to prevent them from camping out to collect 100’s of animals, but if they do, they will be less likely to be crowding this area again anytime soon after the camp session, so end result is still less crowding.
There is not much you can do about folks who still want to kill your animal before you can cage it. Making it immune to damage from outside sources to the taggers causes other issues, so if you run into those kind of griefers, you just need to deal with them as folks have in the past (insert your chosen method here).
Anyhow, that is my 2 cents. Thoughts?