Pets and death?

i get attached to things easily to.

 

I cried when my horse died on Skyrim.

I win.

 

exactly. If pets died and were gone forever. it would be really bad, especially if you spend a lot of time training them unlocking their skill(s). then he dies... start all over... >_>

 

i was sad all day and almost even cried when my cat got lost and ran away on runescape! getting another one wasn't the solution, it wasn't the same cat! ITS NOT THE SAME!

 

I personally would be in favor of my pets dying forever, but with one exception. Cloning. You could bring them back to life for a price, or until you could get the same technology on your space station.

 

i feel really bad when i step on random snails i've never even seen i find it hard to get rid of junk

 

I imagine it will be much like how you gather several NPCS in Starbound, by carrying them home while defenseless.

 

if this were to happen people would end up not wanting pets, if they had a bit of help in battle but to the save your pet you cant fight until you have brought it back pets would then become a negative in battle.

 

There is no official information on what happens, so at this point all we can do is speculate.

 

And speculate we shall!

 

I think the pets should be treated the same way as the player, and since I think you will just get sent back to the station possibly with some pixel or items lost, the same should apply to your pet, where the pixel loss would be the cost of healing it or whatever

 

you could always carry them home in your inventory as a pack item and then heal them once you got there

 

they did say you would then be defenseless

 

This is very much a personally opinion, I would quite enjoy this and consider it a huge PLUS myself.

How else can you experience that special bond with your pet if you know they're invincible, fighting and winning isn't satisfying unless you had SOME chance to lose.

 

What if you had your pet with you for a very long time and you had a strong bond with it and then all of a sudden it's gone? It's like having your best friend disappear.

 

Yes? And how would that bond even form if you were never in any danger?

The other way it's more likely to feel like a tool, something you use, but if there's a chance it can die you can't think of it that way.

 

Oh boy... PETAs going to make me eat it for this one...
I proudly support Pet death. As cuddly as those little fuzz-balls are, if they rush into the gaping Maw of a thirty story Sarlacc... well Kitty doesn't even deserve a tombstone at that point. It may be a Darwinian approach... but I prefer the pet that has managed to operate at a "don't die" standard to the one I need to drag to resurrect every other battle.
Not sure how many of you are familiar with the term... but if this game doesn't have Pet Death, I'll have to use hardcore Nuzlocke Rules whenever I play.

 

See, the problem is I don't think I could make myself put down any animals after they failed me...

Unless... we can put them in the air lock.

also I think this quote regarding the Nuclocke Challenge applies quite well "The results were unexpected; rather than simply increasing the difficulty, these rules caused him to care for his monster companions more than ever before. He found new appreciation for Pokemon he would have previously never bothered to capture, and worried deeply for his team, knowing any knockout would mean goodbye."

 

Heres the thing. I'm not going to put them down... I'm just going to find some barren wasteland of a planetoid, land there, firmly utter the phrase "STAY!", and then "Beam me up, Scotty. Alone."
Thats my plan if pets can't die.

 

mmm I suppose there's really no cruelty in it if they survive forever? sounds good xD