Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

Pets is cool and all, but I'd really like to see some specialty biomes. Stuff that are made to be accessed by only a certain race, consists of very challenging material, require something to unlock (aside from having a certain person of your race in party,) and really dig into the history of the race. Make it involve very complicated dungeoneering.

 

I think it'd be cool if they had SOME inherent ability, not necessarily fighting but something to make them actually worth using rather than just cosmetic items.

 

Jeez does no one read? It DOES NOT have to be the $1 million stretch goal.

Just chill out people...

 

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This guys is like the only voice of reason

 

I'm going to have to go with nay. I'd much rather see another race or additional monster/weapon parts or more biome types.

 

I still vote we have a playable Penguin race. Or at least a Penguin race we can interact with. Because, really, what other game has a penguin race?

 

If they were able to provide us with an accurate release date for the beta or the full version, they would have done so. It's already been covered to death why they haven't done so. There are many facets of the game that require further work. While you can estimate how long it'll take to complete task 'x', it's only an estimate and you don't know for sure how long it'll actually take until you do it. Maybe it's faster than expected, maybe it takes much much longer and requires fiddling with (previously completed) functions 'w', 'y', and 'z' so that they interact properly (when you didn't expect any issues with their interaction). Read up on the mythical man month (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month) for more information. A useful analogy is that you can't suddenly produce a child in a single month by using nine women.

As for the stretch goals, I say just take the money and use it to provide a financial buffer so you can focus on the game instead of worrying about the stresses of tight finances. May also be handy so you can hopefully not require that members of the team pick up second jobs to avoid starving. It's probably tricky to pull something like that off though, since you already set some stretch goals and folks on the internet just love to whine about things to which they feel entitled. While I certainly appreciate stretch goals, I pre-ordered without an inkling that any stretch goals were planned, nor is my support for the game predicated on such things.

...on the flip side, I don't know how stretch goals affect the rate/quantity of pre-orders. It isn't really something I've researched to a significant degree, so it may be possible that it's worth your time to make up some nifty ones to help drive pre-orders even more.

 

That's good to hear! Literally!

A variety of voices is indeed what I meant, but you're right, forty flavors of grunting might not be exciting news.

 

You are very welcome. Always glad to answer anyone's questions!

 

I always love the idea of trophies for the hunt kind of thing. Like animal busts for creatures you have captured or defeated. Ive never been a hunter irl, but in game it is always fun. That or being able to add certain animal parts to armor for cosmetics!

 

Anyone else read this post and think - "We heard you liked pets, so we put pets on your pets, so you can pet your pet while your pet pets your pet"
*blinks* - A companion pet for your Captured Animal Pet, that interacted with the Captured Pet itself autonomously would be nice.

 

Depends on the cause.

 

For all we know these could already be in the game, haha.

 

I second this, I feel not enough info was given by the OP for "everyone" to make a reasonably informed decision, more than one option for a stretch goal would be my preferred outline for the poll question.

 

Unrelated but I like you.

And if not monster breeding: How about what someone else said? Catapaults and elevators would make great additions to bigger bases

 

Hey, wait... How about a bookshelf that let's you write your own adventures down in novels?
I dunno, it'd be on your ship, and you can write anything and it will track the day you wrote it. Then other players who you invite on your ship can read them.
(Just going back-and-forth giving ideas that may be worth a stretch goal, thinking/looking for more)

 

I agree with what a lot of people say about this, the issue is that this is a very "boring" stretch goal compared to the novakids and fossils and other stuff that could be done. maybe make it a very small stretch goal while you're working on coming up with a new one? this one unlocks at 800,000$ and then another new one comes up for 1,000,000$?

 

Ehh, to be honest, it sounds kind of lame to start with a starting pet. I mean, what if you don't want a pet to start with? Of course there's probably an option to put it away or release it, but then you're forced to lag behind people that chose to keep theirs.

I just think it's something that we shouldn't have since it forces player to make the choice to have a furry following them, or to hinder your beginning gameplay (even slightly) by choosing against this.

No hate, just my opinion!

 

It'll be cool to start with a pet..