Excelsior

ok ive noticed alot of pets are the same given differences in mountable packable and not.....makes pets dull. dont think i knocking on your hard owrk i think you guys are doing a great job but it seems coli is a good scripter and likes a chalenge so here i go.

PET SKILLS/special attacks
-blood suck - latches on and does greater bleed dmg but hold melee dmg while it drinks blood to regen hp (life leech over time)

- certain pets depending on diff to tame should ahve a dmg bonus so that you cant breed a squarlle to lvl 15 adn ahve 1k hp and 17/25 and have a squarlle as strong as a harder to get critter with less slots used

- highly magic pets (bake kitsunes dragons ww's etc.) get spell damage increase to make them more effective

- make pets not cast cure....when they get poisoned they stop attacking with magic to try and cure....and it doesnt work

- peacemaking....after a mob has been peaced a pets hit chance seems to go down like 60-70% dont ask em why i dotn know ive just noticed when a monster is peaced my pet hits alot less

- pets currently have a 800ish skill cap ruining some pets that breed magery high cause it then only lets melee skilsl to like 80 or so (less hit/defense chance) (this mainly effects a ruin beetle with high magery and poisoning... since a gen 3 beetle easy can get 140 poison and 110 magic skils) but like 90 melee and 40 anatomy

- evo pets....i hear some admins dont like em....but there so much fun getting a crap pet and leveling it (like weapon) to greatness and it evolving to bigger and collor forms i.e. egg - snake - giant sept - drake - dragon - evolved dragon.....i thik a good way to stick this in would be when breeding a dragon you get a % chance of gettign an egg the breed doesnt seem to have time for and you ahve to raise...would be so cool and so nice

- bio pets.....havent seen one but i have a feelign theyll end up too strong compared to other pets that people have spent time breeding

END...thanks for listening


ok guys knock my ideas if you want but those are what i think would amek pets better and i jsut hate the fasct that a gen 10-15 rabbit can be as strong as a gen 2 hiryu. again i am not knocking the admins and dev teams hard work i just feel that taming all be it fun need s a little more spice (why i play here instead of osi tbh)

seems good ideas, mostly.
as for the special attacks, they arent that very hard to script, but still it takes a few days... time i dont have until august. so i'll use some of these when i got time, in august. Unless if morpheus wants to start first
So far the only special thing i thougt of was the echee that regenerates you and kills other echies.

All skills on pets are capped to 100, unless if you increase that with a pet powerscroll. Those scrolls also increase it's skillcap to 800. And pets usually have up to 7 skills... 7x100 = 700. plenty.

Evo pets... i'm not sure how powerful they are, but from what i heard on other shards... they were kinda hard to get, you had to defeat some great dragon to get the eggs... but the egg evolved into a dragon the same strengh like that one you had to kill, so it was too easy. I heard shards get boring after a month if they have this.

Biopets... they are quite hard to get...requires lots of work, infact there could be more organics out there... but they arent that very strong... they take 3slots, and they are capped at about the same as other animals are. Well, they are stronger, but not uber. We'll see feedback from the people when they get it.

The problem with pets is, they are already strong... the whole problem of this game is that there are ever stronger stuff, and monsters that drop more and more money, but the monsters stay the same in strength.
I remember on a uo:r shard, or something like that... took quite some time to train to for example 70 swordsmanship, and took quite alot of time to take down an ettin or lizardman to get that 100-200 gold... now people just say "all guard" and go around, with a [claim target ready to click all the corpses. Which is fun, but not exactly what it was intended.

anyway when i get back i'll do some upgrading again, and these ideas will help as blueprints.