Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

Guess that is a personal feeling that, if they are in i will use them, but if they arent in i wont miss them (and yes they will be in as someone said a couple of times before)

But looking at goals, something like the abandoned space stations/asteroid fields/ spacehipgraveyards would (in my mind at least) add more to the game and (once again my personal opinion) be a better strechgoal than pets. Basically becaus i dont really care for pets (pun intended)

 

yes is only starten pet

 

Here is what kept me back from Voting yes (still unvoted).
of the list of pets this guy wasnt even on the list (now if hes being saved for an NPC all the better ^_^) :

Enos the Space Monkey - the first chimpanzee that was launched into Earth orbit.







edit: ack none of the resizes saved correctly >_<

could even encounter / recruit him in orbit

 

I loved the Torchlight 2 pet system also but I'm not sure why people keep comparing it to this. We already have combat pets in game which was one of the things the TL2 pet did and from what I can tell the inventory has a button to send items to your ship so having a pet go back and sell items to clear your inventory is also not necessary.

 

I think most of the people voting yes do not realize pets are already in the game. And they FIGHT as well instead of being absolutely useless.

 

Not so much love for the first dog in space?

 

I know right ! Check this out.

 

All this bickering and negativity towards something that was supposed to be so happy and cute as a thank you from the developers for all the support reminds me of a Louis CK quote...

"Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. [...] How quickly the world owes you something you knew existed only ten seconds ago." --Louis CK

 

I really like the idea of a non-combat pet system but I think something that doesn't require a huge amount of coding but still being a system that can absolutely make your experience with the game 1000x better is Guilds / Corporations.

All you need is 3 things

* Chat with guild/corp from anywhere in the game
* Guild Tag (Example: Khrono from guild 'Universal Takeover' would appear as "[UnTo] Khrono" with the tag being decided by the GM of course)
* Guild swagga. This could be accomplished in many ways. Some are more realistic (Emblem system that displays on your ship, a place-able banner with your emblem) and could range up to the ambitious (Guild Halls in the form of a space station).

Guilds bring people together and give players a much stronger sense of a community. I know it was mentioned that you would like guilds/corps at some point so why not stretch to make it fit release? (I'm happy with pets too though ;P )

 

I voted yes and I was fully aware of tamable pets that can be used in combat.

Not saying you're wrong, but there's no evidence to support the theory.

 

Have you even thought that some people may not want a combat pet? Kinda like some people don't want a non-combat pet.

 

Well if we are advertizing ideas someone else posted., i like the idea you linked combined with this one http://community.playstarbound.com/...d-and-asteroid-field.12738/page-2#post-743521

 

Maybe the next goal could be like,an enemy alien empire that we fight against? like the Grox from a game called Spore.

 

they had a dog in the pet section. but no Space Monkey ^_^

 

Well you can take a combat pet and put it in passive mode (i guess you can set it) than that problem would be solved right

 

Soo..
Are we able to chose the color of our pet? and can we aquire all of the pets in 1 playthrough?
That would be "important" to know
PS: Sorry if this was answered i didn't read all the 38 pages :<
Also YEAAAAH for the "mini-stretch goal" idea

 

I based that on all of the replies in this thread from people who had no idea.

 

Pets are good, they are good for work.
When you have pet you tell it to run and kill for you and if it dies you eat anyway. Pet is good, would like pets.

 

Because there is not much games with pet system

It might be nice addition - it would be cool, if they would be useful somehow of course

 

I absolutely hate this. It ruins the atmosphere.

I'd be fine if you could get them later in the game when you've advanced instead of just...being there.
For example, you could find them in the wild and capture them. They're not randomly generated so lets say there would be 50 of them.
Another thing to collect and another reason to explore. It makes sense and hopefully everyone is happy