Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

that's a very uninformed generalization, I've been following the game for almost a year and feel I'm familiar with almost all the info they've released about Starbound. I voted yes despite not being very enthusiastic about cosmetic pets. I pre-ordered the game with an idea of the content that would be in it, Chucklefish is adding more content to the game at no cost to me, what gives me the right to tell them this content isn't good enough for me? It seems every aspect of the game is going to be amazing, I have no doubt that they'd make pets enjoyable for a lot of people.

Don't make them regret pouring their resources into additional features for you, they could always choose not to have any more stretch goals

 

I see where your getting at, but as a light I mean a slightly brighter glow than a novakid, thatway your not in total darkness 24/7 if your lightless, and to find ores, later progression yes, like, in the begining it can only spot out the basic material for you, iron for example, than later on upon leveling up (asumming this has levels) it can spot like, diamonds or... eredium (borderlands ftw)

and for the chest thing like, you have to beat a boss, it drops "the bracelet of scavange" or something and than you equip it on your pet and than it spots out chests for you.

 

Janovick:

That's exactly what I would want too

 

Im ok with Starterpets if the stretchgoal is about 760,000.
Oh we allready got it?
NEXT!

 

Again, I repeat what I said...
I Honestly Say this: A Vanity Pet system with some cute things running after us, is not worthy for the Goal Starbound is about to reach.

 

I'm not sure how to vote. A vanity pet seems akin to the bunny from Terraria special edition. Yes it's cute, but it doesn't really serve a purpose. Then again early on it SHOULDN'T do anything special or it will break the all-important progression. I need more details on this, mollygos, before I can vote. I like the little pink fluffy thing. And I like doggies. It just depends on how much I can interact with them.

 

Eh, you have your opinion and I have mine. I think it's a small, lovely, achievable goal (unlike some of the other things that have been suggested in this thread).

 

actually I do, it was just trying to support the "pets"

I still voted No

 

I think the best option at this point would be to offer two different things, as was with penguin mode vs. fossils and let everyone decide from there. :v

 

Yeah, definitely yes!
Will they be useless or they can help us carrying stuff, or something like that?

 

Their already going to rework the character creator page! they have to add the novakids so..adding useless little pets wouldn't be that hard.

 

I voted No because such thing, there is already a Monster Capture and Taming System that CAN be expanded to Pet system, without need to make a whole new system just for add kitties and doggies, sigh.

 

I believe you may be correct to some extent. It's pretty easy to see the poll title and say, Pets? Yes please! But when you read the rest of the thread, and realize there's a lot more to it than that, there's a lot more to consider !

I'm just super paranoid when it comes to gameplay altering things. I've been very impressed with what I've seen/read so far about Starbound, but some of the things I've been reading from posters regarding this starting pet thing has me worried! On that note though, I wouldn't have pre-ordered if I didn't have faith in the developers, so I'm sure they'll make the right decision!

 

I'm with Bacon on this, pets should of been a 50k goal. New race = cool, Fossils = awesome, Pets = meh.

 

But why pets!? why not someting more exciting??

 

READ FIRST!! They will be noncombat pets so they don´t fight. and i don´t believe that they support you in anyway^^

 

This is why I said I wanted to know more. I think the monster capture/taming is one of the coolest things they've ever thought to add to the game, and I'm super greatful it's there. I'm greatful they're doing stretch goals at all, and I'm grateful for the nova kids. And fossils. Thank you Chucklefish for all of this, I just wanna make an informed vote.

 

I voted yes because I would like some non combat involved followers, however on the topic of the already implemented taming and collecting system, this was supposed to be just so we can see what kinds of monsters we've seen, correct? This also introduces a sort of pokedex like Codex system also, and the possibility for a combat involved companion. I think that the pets are perfectly worthy to be a stretch goal. Now ofc i would HATE for the pet to be some mundane thing following you around. I would enjoy interaction.

EDIT: also think about the fact that the more involved the system is, the later Starbound will be released. Keep in mind when you want to play the game guys before you get involved.

 

Pets? HELL YES!!!

 

I wouldn't mind if they don't want add more stretch goals, that would be ok for me because the existing features are already awesome.
As your statement that we shouldn't tell them this content isn't good enough, I think we can tell them because they asked.

I'd rather see no further stretch goals than vanity "useless" starter pets. But everyone is free to give its perception