warning pets disappeared
Don't know if this has happened to anyone else. Three of my friends were pirate hunting in the tokuno seas. They crossed the server line and their nightmares disappeared. They checked their character status and it shows no pets, went back over the server line and still no pets. logged off then back on no pets, they checked their stables no pets. This happened about midnight pacific time on Lake Austin.
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the Governor of Vesper on Sonoma lost her Greater dragon...
We had just finished a plunderbeacon in Tokuno waters just below the server line...
It took off running across the water to the west as fast as it could go...
she checked and she had no followers.
she logged out and back again...
she also checked her stables...
And ever since then, my frost dragon has been acting up.
It stops its feet at me instead of attacking what I tell it to.
When it does that I feed it & then stable it...
then it acts normal for awhile & then I have to repeat it...
then yesterday my giant beetle started doing it...
Yesterday I finished Navery with my tamer, recalled home and my cu vanished mid run. It still showed on my slots so I was able to log to get it back.
It may be a pet issue and not just a ship issue.
Im also not blaming the player for this. I myself don’t bother linking all my pets to balls either as I use the log out/in “trick”
So you want them to get rid of a game feature that can save a pet from this situation. And somehow think you can spin it to being a cause of the situation. There are too many places a pet ball can not be used.
but there are 3 adjustments that should be made to keep consistent with other game mechanic rules.
1) pets to only go into the stable after the char logs out (so after 5 mins, or insta if you’re in a house/inn) so the pet will continue to defend you on client crash or conn loss.
2) pets to be retrieved from the stable upon login. So pets cannot be summoned to areas where pet summoning is prohibited.
3) auto pet logout to only apply to bonded pets.
This would encourage players to link their pets to pet balls of summoning and to use them. The devs put a lot of work into these balls, they are quite smart.
Make pet balls work at spawns and in all lands and make pets follow you when you tell them to, and then we could start a compromise.
I also have never carried a pet ball because they only work in Trammel above ground. I dont get separated there often, except in forests.
If you want them to allow pet summoning in areas where pet summoning is currently not allowed, that is another discussion.
But I’m sure the dev team will appreciate your willingness to compromise on obeying their intended game rules.
Maybe you should stop making up your own rules. But looks like you wont be seeing this for a while. On Vacation?
blinked and it was gone
after the plunderbeacon went down, I opened a gate for my other chars...
after the last one went through I noticed my frost dragon was gone...
it was there one moment, the next it was gone...
no message about it becoming unbonded or nothing...
just wasn't there...
0 of 5 pets
logged out and back in
still said 0 of 5
went to the stables and it wasn't there
This reminds me of a larger scale version of the old bug where pets left at champ spawns would then show 0 followers until the owner searched and "found" it.
So far we have a collection of server lines and recalls causing pets to disappear. I was lucky I was able to insta log and reclaim mine.
@Kyronix some of these pets are selling for upwards of half a plat. May I suggest coming up with a system to easily find or replace lost pets?