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« on: September 17, 2005, 11:04:57 pm »
what i think would be cool is if you guys put a program that allows us to buy pets that are controled by the game but help us out in battle animals like baby dragons, tigers,wolfs and any other sugestive creatures that people might want of course to make it fair you guy would mostlikly want to make the creatures expensive but hey if they were powerful and helped in battle and maybe you were able to ride sertain ones i bet people we think it would be worth it and it would give them a goal to shoot for.

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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2005, 11:09:25 pm »
No real-life animals will be found in PlaneShift. And there is a rudimentary pet system being worked on, so this isn\'t a new suggestion :) Try using the Search feature of the forum to find previous threads before posting in the Wishlist next time.

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« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2005, 11:16:16 pm »
If there was pet animals I would wonna wolf small (my characters a dwarf) and vicious (It hurts when you get bite)
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« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2005, 11:54:02 pm »
wolves will suit a dwarf very well, there could be a pet system that works with nature, Like NWN in nature companion, an elf might work well with a bear, a kran could work with a boar, ylian would work with an eagle and so on, yes the idea would work really well, but make it you start with a baby and you teach it tricks (not do a backflip, just fetch a stick and all the combat skills etc.) the growth will have 3 stages so it won\'t be really hard to make the models, it will just be baby, kid/teenager, fully grown. The idea will suit the roleplaying and it could help you in certain ways, the animal won\'t be able to be a mage, or an archer, though the animal could be a thief, it size would work and when it baby you could teach it thief skills, each animal will have its advantages and disadvantages though it will be a good idea
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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2005, 12:13:13 am »
People should be allowed to pick any animal not be stuck with a bad one because of the race :D

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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2005, 12:52:35 am »
there were examples, you could have any roleplaying animal but no like dragons or watever, you could have a horse and you could ride around on it to get to places quicker, but then the horse should have a stamina bar and you have to let it drink to get it up, though the animal should have high stamina and low stamina depending on type, and some animals might not be able to be ridden on (all baby animals wont)
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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2005, 01:24:11 am »
If you could have animals, familiars, spirits, etc, it would be interesting.  If you could \"switch\" between your character and your familiar for the purpose of spying, scouting, communicating, etc, that would be nifty.  If you could travel with a pack of animals which would attack whoever is attacking you, that would be nifty as well.


I think it would be nice just to have more wild animals which aren\'t out to kill you.  You\'re walking, and you see something small and cute and furry scamper away from you.  And birds flying overhead.  One issue is labelling / name tags.  You can turn name tags off right now, but there\'s no way to turn off tags for characters versus NPC versus objects versus monsters.
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2005, 01:25:58 am »
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there were examples, you could have any roleplaying animal but no like dragons or watever, you could have a horse and you could ride around on it to get to places quicker, but then the horse should have a stamina bar and you have to let it drink to get it up, though the animal should have high stamina and low stamina depending on type, and some animals might not be able to be ridden on (all baby animals wont)




Crakaras is pretty dragon-like.  I would like to see some larger varieties which can cast fireburst on players.  They\'ll be as good as dragons only better since our lovely band of devs will be designing them.

Of course, a very large one deep in the bowels of the death realm would suggest that the dragon council would have to change it\'s name to the crakaras council.
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2005, 04:08:58 am »
How about this:

Rats=Big \"backpacks\" on their... backs... and you can put stuff in it to make you carry less weight... say if your inventory was full... but there should be a limit to its carry weight of course...

Clackers=Help fighting... maybe could \"climb things\" for the spying idea... since they DO have those sharp points on their feet

Tefusangs=Ride around on maybe help fight some...

Trepor= i dont know... maybe a bed? lol

Ulbernauts=yea... right... what could they be used as anyways?

ect=ect

And maybe there would be a taming skill where you would have to go up to that monster and right click and click tame then it would do a progress bar like the spell casting... and if successful... they follow you and do their job... but if not then they attack you...
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2005, 04:46:03 am »
There need to be more foresty animals like bears or in the cold there could be wolves and wild monkeys
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« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2005, 05:16:41 am »
Ahahah...hahah... guys? I did mention the no-RL-animals thing, right? :D

Maybe if you tweak them to something more... unusual?
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« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2005, 06:00:19 am »
how about some of those critters and stuff people draw in the fan art section, also how about.....a hippoherf (half deer,half horse) could be the horse like creature, A Lammasu is a half lion,half eagle  and cyclops and so on are mythical creatures, there could a load of creatures that could fit the place of things, there could be an undead horse or something
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« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2005, 08:35:34 am »
Yes i dont know ALL of the creatures in the game but i listed a few... and some purposes to think of... if anyone has anything better for a creature\'s \"job\" then please post about it... but what do you all think of the Tame skill?
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2005, 08:49:30 am »
tame is the same as my animal companion really, though it can be a little unfair, i reckon just to summon a animal companion (not requiring mana) though you can only summon one a day
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« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2005, 09:10:13 am »
Well with tame... you have to go up to the monster and right click it then click maybe a leash icon and it will do the prgress bar yadda yadda... of course once the creature gets out of range of the spawn point another one will respawn... you could go into the sewers and come out with a rat... of course tame wouldnt work on people... maybe you could do one called negociate? LOL!
but you could only have one monster follow you at a time...
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