Stendhal Development Meeting 2009-11-22/Result Log/Pets

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Types of Pets

lovely pets
- like cats
- pets are not very 'helpful' in real life. they are a friend or a play thing. they're not there to kill much for you :)
- cats should not grow strong but be sweet little cats
fighting pets
- like the baby dragon
- fighting pets should level, currently a baby dragon can just kill a rat (#2813408)
suggestion that pets should eat lesser
new pets
- dog
- wolf
special abilities
- pack animals with extra slots for items
- mounted animals for faster travel
- players run the fastest that anything can run dune to limits in the way movement is handled in code

Summon scrolls should become more powerful if you use them repeatedly.
That was the original plan but there are some issues
Problem: Summoned Creatures had scaling issues with the old RP-fighting rules:
- Creatures are balanced to attack players who are wearing armor
- Creatures don't wear armor, so summoned creatures win against them easily.
- Need to reevaluate with the new RP-fighting rules.
capturing creature with an empty summon scroll (#1777651)
Problem: Someone could summon a very big creature right outside Semos then.
If we make the protection more fine grained, the low protection areas could allow stronger monsters to be summoned
Perhaps limiting the summoning to creatures who are on these maps? For example on a map which only hosts rats, you can just summon rats there.
Are summoned creatures an advantage if limited like this?
All in all: More powerful summoned creatures are very interesting but this needs to be approached carefully

it should be possible to leave the pet somewhere safely, so you can have a cute pet, but don't have the burden to care for it all the time
partly possible in your house, but they will not survive a server restart
saving pets in the bag or bank chest (like other games do) sounds cruel
kennel you can pay for
Katinka at the sanctuary can already look after pets, but she takes them forever
a similar thing - where you can get your pet back
it is typical to pay boarding fees when you take pet to kennel
could be a higher fee to get them out if they where under 100lb when placed in. you know like your pet ate more than the other so i will have to charge you more for the return of your pet
it could be possible to charge for the time spent in the kennel. that approximates the amount of food needed
they should take care of the pet. Getting it all fat does not sound healthy. So I guess a good idea would be to keep them the way they are when they are given to the kennel.
if we save the kenneled pets as part of the player object, we can keep them forever. Only if we store them as part of the wildlife zone, there would be a limit.
if the player has given a cat to the kennel, he would not be able to adopt a second one, but can get his pet back from the kennel of course
wildlife place may be a good idea for the kennel, need to make sure that it is obvious to whether you give your pet away to the refugee forever or just temporary to the kennel