A sollution for show pets

[Cobal]

I think this maybe a way to give players pets in an easy to implement manner.
These will be just show pets, they follow you around but dont interact with the world in any way.

Add one slot to the paper doll, a pet slot.
If a pet is placed in this slot a pet will followthe character around using the Cargo disk code.
technicallyy the pet would be a cargo disk but without bulk capacity anda pet graphic instead of the disk graphic.

Cargo disks dont show on another players screen since they exist client side only.
Pets would suffer the same problem if this trick was used to get pets in game.

How to solve this possibly:
When you meet a person in game the server tells your client what items he has in each of his/her character slots so that your client can display this (a persons armor and stuff)
Your client could pick up on this pet slot and display the pet the person has.

Unfortunatlythe server would have to transmit positional information for the pets.
We dont want this as we would get more lag.

To solve this we just let the server transmitIF a person has pet equiped (yes or no) and what kind it is (pettype 1, pet type 2, etc)
We let the client deal with positioning the pet, It simply always displays a persons pet to his/her right side for example

basicly the pet would exist completely Client side, like the cargo disk.

Now for pets we need graphics.
Take a few existing mob design and shrink them to pet size for graphics.
some of the domestic animals might be nice to use.

[C`gan]

Sure. Maggots, wolves, deer, cows, fyakki, spiders, golems.

What about dragons?

[refuse]

What about dragons?

I am all for pet dragons. :)


Though the idea of having a pet Oastic seems cool. Apple Oastics. Hmmn, fresh fruit anywhere I am.

[Cobal]

Ok, if us dragons can get pet gnomes :)

[Finduilas]

Ok, if us dragons can get pet gnomes [img]/Web/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img]

Have you been playing WoW?

In WoW I play a Ranger(Hunter)so I have a combat pet, a grizzly bear that tanks, and a show pet, a great horned owl.

[Cobal]

Aye, I have been playing wow.
Im a hunter too, got a crocolisk as pet and a mechanical mithrl dragonling as showpet.

Show pets are exactly the kind of fluff HZ needs.

[Fireclaw]

Good idea.[:)]

Similar to WoW, which has lots of different non-combat show pets. Some rare and hard to find, some easy to get (cats of various types, kittens, roaches, whelpings, mechanical squirrels and toads, various different birds, etc.)

[Hasai]

....Now for pets we need graphics.
Take a few existing mob design and shrink them to pet size for graphics....

I wanna obsidian golem, and I don't want it shrunk down!
[;)]

[C`gan]

[img]/Web/Themes/default/images/icon-quote.gif[/img]Cobal wrote: ....Now for pets we need graphics.
Take a few existing mob design and shrink them to pet size for graphics....

I wanna obsidian golem, and I don't want it shrunk down!
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In such a case as that, can they haul cargo disks, too? And if it's too obnoxious to go out to the obsidian fields, can we kill andharvest it?

[Cobal]

*totally shameless bump because I really like my little pet idea*

[Dragonboy]

In Hz I want a Ghostly Dragon as "combat" pet which should fly around with me where ever I please to go...
And keep the show pet...
I would already have a pet ppl can see (and fear)...

[Raptress]

I think it's a good idea...Well thought out.
But we ought to have domesticated things, I think, maybe not actually monsters we can go out and fight....
I personally don't like the idea of pet dragons because it could be considered degrading to dragonkind. Maybe a similar creature perhaps though...Like a wyvern chick or something.

[Cobal]

I really liked this little idea So I figured I'd bump it. :P

Would be cool to collect an assortment of pets.

[Dragonboy]

I like the idea of a pet, last night I had a lvl 12 Garnet Golem follow me the whole way from NT around the wisp field (was just leaving with loaded cargo disk) to the shrine of NT...

I was a difficult time keeping him to follow me and in the end a low level player accidentally attacked him and the golemwent not for him, but an even lower level player who walked near...

I had to put my pet down soon after that... [:'(]

Pets are cool, I prefere the fact that others see him/her, but an extra cargo disk is nice as well... lol

But why not introduce Mules or other pack animals instead of those hoovering disks?

If disks themselves are client side, so will the mules or cart with a horse in front ([:P]).
So it should be easy to give pets a certain amount of cargo space...
*sees in his mind General Reklar following him everywere with bags on his back filled with lairshaping resources*

[cattoy]

I dunked my pet in invisible dye.

[Dragonboy]

I dunked my pet in invisible dye.

I almost feel sorry for it... [;)]