Can I turn off seeing other players pets?

It was an example, I said two legged monsters, for all I know there could be some easy monsters you capture that do as much as no damage and are prcatically useless on the long run. I just think this is made a HUGE deal out of, like it's just something that follows a player around just like a monster, why discriminate? You don't see me requesting the hiding of people with anime avatars and pony avatars lol, I learned to live with them, simple as that.

 

I thought the starter pets were supposed to contain some non-combat ability?

 

I also am mitigated by the arrival of pets in the game. I don't think I'll have one following me around everywhere, maybe just a little but I'm pretty sure it'll ruin the immersion for me.

I understand that it would break the immersion for you if you joined a server and there was cats and dogs flying all arount a space ship... ewwww... I dont like that idea at all... I'll be playing mostly single player though so that does not bother me that much...

I'd still like to know they are purely cosmetic and can be turned off

EDIT : More so, if they are usefull, then turning them off is not really an option and I'll basicly have to have one following even in single player just for the usefullness of it

 

No, though maybe the bug pets could be a squick point for some, and there are people afraid of dogs. It's an interesting point though. Even if the devs do nothing there'll probably be a pretty simple way to disable undesired creature assets in the files.

 

I don't know man but it's just weird, like we're all up for capturing monsters ugly or not (we choose which and what follows us) but if it comes to something we know from real life it becomes an issue and we need a feature to disable it because it's cats and dogs. Who is afraid of dogs or cats to an extreme where it hurts them? I figured almost nobody, I see a cat or a dog daily in RL and on the internet.

 

Also I was under the impression that your pets don't just blindly follow you around like a decoration... that they are stored somewhere, pokemon style, to be released when needed.

 

I'm sure we could go deep enough down this rabbit hole that we find something you're afraid of that others would laugh at. I'm sure it wouldn't harm anyone, but if it makes them uncomfortable - or it annoys them, as is the case with most of these posters - it's not an unreasonable supposition to have a client-side option to turn them off. It's not like it would impact those who keep them on.

 

Great point, I dunno, I'm not all againts pets, just thinking that a bunch of them on the screen at the same time would hurt my eyes. Same goes for the tamed monsters Btw, I just figured tamed monsters come with their pokeball of some sort and that you can take it away if you wish... If same goes with pets, that's perfect.

Besides, the idea of capturing and taming a really cool monster that you found on a planet if much cooler to me than having some sort of cuddly companion following me on uncharted worlds bursting with lava

 

I don't think he's just talking about cats and dogs. He's saying, if the pets serve no other purpose than to just 'be there' he would like to disable them.
Here's an example, say you're playing with 5 friends, that's 5 player sprites, 5 instances of projectiles, 5 player pets, and numerous creatures all on the same screen. It can get hefty and become an eyesore to have your screen cluttered with something that does literally nothing.

 

Ahh well at this rate I'll probably have to. Oh well I guess. Perhaps I may just have to mod it so the pets are just invisible, might be an easy fix.

 

Imo pets that could help in battle would be great
Like , inflict status conditions on enemies , heal players , etc.

 

This guy gets it

 

Starter pets are not just cosmetic. I don't get why it is a problem really.

 

I think they should just make the pets have to be looked after, there's a hunger mechanic for your character so why not your cat? I bet that would stop a lot of people having pets just because, but not deter people who really do want them.

 

GET YER DANG CAT OFF MAH LAWN

 

Ohhhh please no, if the pets get all tamagotchi style, I loose all hope of maybe liking them

 

yes, it is.

 

Then you'd get rid of your pet and the OP will be a happy man

 

As someone said before, it's really not going to be that bad. MMO's are bad for the pet thing cause you have like 80 people all standing in one place, as well as a pet and mount for each person there. Starbound, yeah, you might get 5 people each with pets but if you think about it, it's just a starter pet. It'll be worse when you get to taming and using pets for combat, since if I remember right you can carry three on you at one time, not quite sure if you can use them all at the same time but still. Not to mention some of the monsters you can probably capture and tame are going to be a lot bigger then the starter pets.

Also the starter pets will have some sort of reason to be used. Maybe simple buffs or something. Who knows but they aren't just vanity pets, they will have some sort of use, just not in combat.

 

why would you want to turn it off?