Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

I like pets, but it would be nice if they could like grow up by your side, and eventually get big enough to help you fight things, and then continue to look more visually impressive as they become more formidable. Just an idea, keep up the good work!

 

Finally someone who actually looks shit up too, I'm not the only person here who does.

 

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Sorry, Mollygos, I kind of have my heart set something that I can ride and that can ram things really hard (perhaps while I am riding it).

Something domestic would simply become a house accessory.

edit: (OH GOD THE RIDING/RAM THING WAS NOT SEXUAL)

 

I completely agree, pets would make an excellent addition to this already amazing game.

 

it has to be done. It has to.

 

People are thinking small! Domestication could be a massive addition depending on the role they play, if they were merely a cosmetic follow-you-around kind of thing, then perhaps $1m is a far fetch stretch goal. But think bigger! Pet growth, pet breeding, pet battles? Some sort of pocket monster type attribute system?! Pet autonomy would be pretty cool.

Even if not for first release, it would be nice if added in future content.

 

Agreed, it needs to be spread, and he NEEDS to post it in the suggestions part of the forums. Too good to pass up.

 

I am disappointed that more than half the people on this forum thinks it's perfectly okay to waste a stretch goal on something completely useless.

 

The procedural generation will make this game interesting, but with the options you get for your homeworld (terraforming, weather, etc.) even the devs must agree that not everything can be random. I agree with the idea of a geneticist NPC in station that breaks captured animals DNA down into cataloged strands which you can use to modify/create animals with. It would promote exploration (finding more DNA), create a different role (Professor Dink the Wayward Splicer), give the collectors something else to chew on, and open the doors for designed populating of homeworld, or tailored combat pets. Personally, if I could be a space geneticist, I'd quit minecraft.

 

More than half the people? *cough*

 

/facepalm

you do realize DLC stands for DOWNLOADABLE CONTENT right?

it doesn't stand for "oh we're charging you for extra content all the time"

the facts are that since they're talking STRETCH goals that means the game is funded and the rest can go into EXTRA stuff.

so FREE DLC would be a given since it's already payed for by the stretch goal money.

and how is this game not the kind of game that would have DLC? you do realize Terraria gets DLC right?

 

... I never said Combat pet's weren't in the game, just that I would prefer my starter pet to be able to fight.

 

What do you think about this?

 

If Starbound get's $1,000,000, Tiy will let me have a fluffy chicken!

 

64% of the vote is more than half, yes.

 

Wait DLCs have to be downloaded, I don't think updates in Terraria do.

Sabre, that's not half the forums....

 

I don't like pets. I'd prefer drop pod and orbital strike.

 

What does Terraria have to do with anything?

I'm all for the pets, though I can see why people wouldn't like them.

 

No, but should $250,000 be dedicated to making players start with a pet, instead of letting them find them normally?