Suggestion: Pet sharing exchange within the same account
As I get more into animal taming I find that I would like to share pets across the characters in my account. For example share the large beetles one of my characters tames among the other 6 characters.
What I suggest is a pet exchange similar to the cleanup points exchange. One character places a pet in the exchange, logs out, logs in another character on that same account, and that character removes the pet from the exchange. Bonded pets that are put into the exchange are auto bonded to the character who removes them from the exchange. The character who removes the pet needs to have the necessary skills to control that pet otherwise the pet will not be removed from the exchange. Limit the number of pets in the exchange to one to prevent using the exchange as a stable.
What I suggest is a pet exchange similar to the cleanup points exchange. One character places a pet in the exchange, logs out, logs in another character on that same account, and that character removes the pet from the exchange. Bonded pets that are put into the exchange are auto bonded to the character who removes them from the exchange. The character who removes the pet needs to have the necessary skills to control that pet otherwise the pet will not be removed from the exchange. Limit the number of pets in the exchange to one to prevent using the exchange as a stable.
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Make a Beetle for each Tamer like the rest of us do.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
One of the advantages I find I have because I stock a Magincia pet stall, if I put a basic (non tamer) pet on the stall with my tamer character then my other characters on the account can take it off. I have used this to pass giant beetles and fire beetles to my tamer and swamp dragons to my melee fighters.
Role play immersion breakage. Bam. Tamer job security. Pet prices. Saturation of powerscroll market. More dreads in pvp. So on and so on. Its a mmo sandbox, things are interconnected.
A silly question to ask. How would this change hurt him? It wouldn't, aside from rp reasons or percieved value of pets and items. You know it he knows it we all know it, jeesh.
We can apply that critical thinking to the inverse. What hurt will op suffer to train pets as his/her characters require?
There's no objective to the game, so any pain or challenge is create by the user. Game history and mechanics say no sharing pets. User doesn't want to be bothered nor finds no or little satisfaction in doing so within game mechanics.
Fault isn't on the mechanics in this situation.
Perhaps the prior poster was implying a sense of needless changes that cater to the lazy or unimaginative.
I'm with that. Have pride in you pets and followers I say. They're pets not tools.
Some things make the game UO.
Also my toons are individuals. Some don't like others.
Anytime I wanted to transfer a pet from one char to another I could find a friend or passer by to hold on to it long enough for me to switch character.
As for instant bonding see the store.
Please make the Grizzled Mare a 5 slot mount, it's incredibly rare and deserves it. Some of us have been waiting a long time for this simple addition.
I'd rather the devs work on new things and not mess with the old code.
New pet types or pet cross breeding would be a better place to spend limited resources on pets.