Warning: potential issue with deeds of pets tamed in this VU

P-J · 05-27-2008, 15:04

The new VU has changed a number of issues around taming. One of which is the auto stable function (see the thread on auto stabling).

In the past you could feed a freshly tamed pet 1 nuto and then allow it to auto stable - it would then keep indefinitely.

When you feed it more than one nutro and 'activate' the deed the pet's energy level will decay and when the energy level is 0 you will lose the pet.

You now have to feed a pet a lot more than 1 nutro to get it to stable (a number of people are experimenting with this - see VincereEventide's thread in this section of the forum) and I think that the deed will be 'activated'. This is my working assumption atm until I get more info.

I think, therefore, that pet deeds tamed in this VU will just vanish from your inventory when they hit energy level 0.

I know that a lot of people buy pet deeds as investments....hence the warning.

I think that if you have a deed tamed before the VU I would guess it will remain 'stable' and not decay, however, if you buy one tamed after the VU - use and feed it or lose it.

I have taken the precaution of removing deeds from my store until I get more clarity on this issue.

AlphaGeek · 05-27-2008, 15:29

So what you're saying is that pets can "starve to death" now, yes?

AG

P-J · 05-27-2008, 15:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by AlphaGeek

So what you're saying is that pets can "starve to death" now, yes?

AG

I think that if you buy a deed of a pet it will decay and starve to death - even if it has only been tamed and auto stabled. This wasn't the case in the last VU.

In the past if I tamed a pet and auto stabled it I could sell the deed to people knowing that it wouldn't decay any further. So I could sell you a deed and you would keep it until you decided to open the deed. Some players have collections of deeds in the 1000's which they started back when taming was introduced.

I suspect that now if I tamed and auto-stabled a pet the deed will continue to decay until the pet has 0 energy and dies. So in essence I would be selling you something that would vanish from your inventory ....

NevadaJake · 05-27-2008, 15:49

I wonder if this is a bug, or a planned feature?

Pets are pretty expensive to maintain, so it would pretty much suck to lose one from not feeding it. Maybe they should make it so you can't remove a starving pet from the stable until you use the stable keeper to feed it.

Welcome to Snable (L)

soothsayer · 05-27-2008, 16:00

looks like they trying too nerf tamming even though there is no real use for pets tamming.. jebus then eed to encourage people too such a thing not scare them off.

Imagine just coming back from holiday.

its not your house that has been broken into but all your lovin pets you tammed and feed are now dead because you did not log in too feed them..

Droops · 05-27-2008, 16:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by P-J

I know that a lot of people buy pet deeds as investments

Hmm i dont see the advantage to use pet deeds as an investment or am i missing something here

Smoerble · 05-27-2008, 16:37

The point is that it is now a lot harder to "make" new pets. This means the expensive ones that not every user can tame will be a lot more expensive soon: If I want to sell a Daikiba Stalker, I have to find one (takes already a lot time), feed it a lot and bring it to a stable.

Until now I didn't care if it was hungry or not.

From now on, I need to be sure that I never forget to feed it = a LOT higher costs: if I want to sell one, I have to pay the food for maybe 4 weeks until I sell it = a lot higher costs for the pets.

If I have a pet that starves to death, I need to make the next one more expensive to cover these costs too (same when you loose PEDs when crafting).

So the tamming profession becomes the most risky one profession in my opinion now, which means, the pets will increase in pricing a lot, as soon as all sellers realize this.