OctavariumGaming

My company, Krakengard, and I have been enjoying your server for a couple of weeks now. However there are a couple of issues, the other night my buddy and I were in A1 taming a male lvl27 wolf and we noticed the taming speed seemed to be x1. In the process of trying to tame it, it was accidentally killed with errant crossbow shot at 96%. This was our first larger tame so we were both a bit miffed. So we thought it was taking too long tame and I noticed I was barely getting any XP even though I had the "New Discovery" xp buff on. We verified the lower rates by harvesting a tree and only getting a tenth of what we normally get on the servers. I sailed us down to A2 and there I was getting the normal x10 gathering and XP rates. The next issue I have is the Fountain of Youth. How are we supposed to defeat the PvE monster without a huge company and alliances? On official we did the dragon but it was 4 brigs fully loaded with company/alliance members shooting it. How are we supposed to kill that with 4 man companies? Is there a mod that takes care of this? We are looking to play with some more guys so if you need a crew hit me on discord here https://discord.gg/qKd5pu See ya out on the seas!