Important Stretch Goal Thoughts -- Pets?

listen, even though the majority of us have voted no, it looks like the next strech goal will be pets, we should stop complaining and look on the bright side, Hopefully they arn't a a pain in our exhaust pipes and actually turn out to be usefull later on in the game, maybe even allow them to be your "tutorial guide" like... "X sees a monster comming, quick, kill it by using the left mouse click!"

 

Starter pets doesn't really add that much gameplay. For a game like starbound, where you are supposed to explore planets, etc, i think it would be cool to have some unique pets that you find randomly on planets. A system similar to that of Castle Crashers. I know that the game already have a pet system, but what if you want a certain pet? You will probably die trying to find something even similar with the amount of combinations possible. Unique pets with cool abilities, evolutions as in Ragnarok's Online homunculi, would be as awesome of a feature as are the fossils, and way more exciting than an starter pet.

 

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If you read the topic you will see this is more likely an vanity thing running after you everywhere. I don't get tired of Repeat: NOT worthy of the Goal Starbound is about to Reach.

 

The more you repeat, the more it seems like you don't actually believe that.

EDIT: and i thoroughly read the topic thanks. Vanity would be nice however if its to the extent that we can't have a Combat companion and vanity pet at the same time...

ALSO: what about just collecting fossils, they dont have any real purpose than vanity. so what do you say to that?

 

You do realise pets will be available whatsoever (I'm not talking about those pets that are the subject of the poll)

 

No it doesn´t....

 

Yes it does.

 

I like pets, don't get me wrong, but without having any functionality, they seem very boring. Maybe give the player a reason to use a Pet over a Tamed Monster. Something like equipables for them like a mini backpack you can equip to the pet for a couple extra inventory slots and they can find hidden loot. For example, a dog will bark and start sniffing the ground in the spot where something is hidden, dig out the block he's sniffing, get some random loot like maybe a weapon or something. Make the Pets useful for running around finding loot, and the Tamed monsters useful for killing mobs/bosses.

There's a lot of good ideas in this thread. Maybe mix and mash all the ones you like and make really cool functional pets.

 

I'M AGAINST THIS!
Combat or non-combat, starter pets are a good idea but if there's already a way to catch monsters with or without starter I got a much better idea!


For the love of everything that is holy, extend the pet system if you already got one! Not with starter pets! With pets being upgradable!
Without starter pets people aren't forced to take a pet with them and can still catch monsters if they find a monster they feel is catch-worthy.
Add to the pet system the feature to be able to upgrade pets through evolution forms, upgradable stats, changable attributes or being able to add ailments(like making a pet get poisonous on touch) or make it possible to fusion monsters(into stronger or simply different ones) or being able to breed for monsters that fit the players ideal.

There are so many wonderful ways to make the catching, training and growth of a pet exciting for the players.

Look at this:
You caught both these and they're both considered Rank 1 Monster by the system
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Now you fusion or breed two rank 1 monster and the generator spits this out
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While the looks remain the way you want them, generated out of elements from both monsters that you chose,
this is now a rank 2 monster and has therefore one random stat increased by 1. You would then need another rank 2 monster to be able to make one of rank 3.
Players could now catch and combine monsters to their heart's content up to a max. rank of 10 or 20 for a total of 10 or 20 extra stats and still combine their pet to get the perfect look for it.

Just imagine how much time people would spend to hunt and breed/fusion for the perfect monsters they want.

 

Fossils aren't just vanity. Read the fossil thread, some will have special effects. Not that I mean to be rude.

 

Lost respect for this post because of the Navi picture.

 

So then tell me how to know what others believe in? He just tells the truth. Nonsense starter pets are just walking hats.. They may look funny they may look cute but they are not worth to be the next stretchgoal...

 

So... you want it to be a pokemon game?

 

I believe in what I am saying. I don't see Vanity Pets a bad thing, what I see it's that are MUCH better Goals than them.

About Collecting Fossils, it's an EXTRA gameplay layer, find them / dig them / and make a trophy from them. Cute things running around after us are Not an extra gameplay layer.

 

The majority voted yes, actually.

 

I think you have the definition of majority mixed up. Even with the people i've seen say they wish they could change their vote to no, i've not seen 700+ of them.

 

I'm not very fond of that part where you say that is not worthy of the stretch goal.
They shain't pick a too difficult goal in order to avoid having to delay the bêta (but not vanity starter pets please)

 

No worries you aren't being rude, but I also say if you must,

The more involved the pet system, the more time they need to work on it, the later that starbound will be released. Keep this in mind when you contribute to the conversation.

 

Most people voted yes, but still NOT YES enough for they be the vast majority. This make this Suggestion for a Goal: CONTROVERSIAL.