Bio Engineer Archive
Thread: Pet Growth
Full data pad, really slow growth rate, almost seems 10% every 24hrs. So critter that i got 3 days a ago with 120 ham is now 480 ham full will be 1200... slow.... may be I should log in at least once in 12 hrs period ? right now can't do that I'm on usually once every 24 hrs.
Another thing you will notice is, they don't grow if you ignore them.
You need to call them a couple times a day.
Hehaub wrote:Iam a MCH and have a friend I hunt with that is also a MCH. We both got some new pets. The always seem to grow at different rates. His merek and my merek(that we got within 15min of each other) have ~6lvl difference now. His being 6 lvls higher than mine. I have seen this alot, sometimes it is my pets that grow alot faster. What factors into the growth rate of pets? I haven't seen any clear answers. I have experimented with several things. Fighting them alot, feeding, just keeping them out of the datapad on patrol. I have seen ~12lvl difference on GSP between us! We compare all the time to try to find the method to the madness, but my guess is that growth is hosed(caniadian term?) Is it a problem to tell us how they grow? I mean we are MCH, we should understand the growth cycle of our pets, no?
Still no clear answer on this. I tried the log in at least once every 12hour method now.
No Workie!
Another point, my friend and I(see my post above for details) got some kaadu's on patch day. We went together and out of the same lairs. His were full grown
sunday, Mine were lvl6 when I logged off last night.
Race doesnt seem to be involved. I give one of them to my in game wife, same race. Hers popped in a couple hours, mine still lvl 6......
Tell me how this is calculated or tell me you arent not going to tell me, but tell me SOMETHING
CCGASpectrallight wrote:
heres a very clear awnser. It used to take 5 full days for any pets to be fully grown. the higher level they are the faster the seemed to grow toget them to grow in thse same time it takes the lesser animals.Now after the last patch before mounts I haven't really watched it closely but it seemed to me that pets were growing slower and stopp ed growing altogether if stored incorectly. IE stored through radial instead of datapad.
That isnt a clear answer. Its speculation like any other,
although the last patch screwed the pooch on alot of things.
I havent seen anything about storing them incorrectly.
I guess I should make sure I am wearing my lucky hat,
remove my weapon and be jumping high into the air while
trying to store my pet. I can see the dev's laughing as
they are reading these posts. You know ONE of them
has read a growth rate post. The only thing I can think
is happening is that they are too buying putting out
fires all over the game to tell us that pet growth is
not working right either.
I have only been a creature handler for a short while, still novice no skills learned etc.. I tamed two baby cupas and a lesser dewback, i've had them for four days (real-time) been feeding them had them out everyday in the city, used them for hunting (as much as you can there only babys) and nothing, they've not grown at all.
Any Ideas?
Dev 1 (browsing this forum): Hey guys, c'mere and look at this! They're trying to figure out how pet growth works!
Dev's 2, 3, and 4 take a look, and collapse on the floor of the cubicle, laughing hysterically.
My contribution to this confusion:
The day before the patch, I found a Graul Mauler Lair and tamed 4 babies. I was in a hurry, so I just stored them without training them. The next day, they were at about 20% growth. I had some time, so I called and trained them all.
12 hours later they were at 9700/9700 HAM (full grown). The Mountain Squill which I had tamed 24 hours earlier than the GM's, and which was still untrained,was still at 40%.
Post-patch, I got a BE bol from a guildie and tamed it into my datapad. I never trained any commands on this animal. 48 hours later, it was at level 12/30. I called it in a camp for about 20 seconds just to see how big it was at CL12. Still didn't train it in a single command. TWO HOURS later, it had grown to CL30 (full grown).
OK, contestants....figure it out! 
My buddy and I collected some female kaadu on the 13th.
One sunday(16th) his were full grown. I just checked mine
and they are still lvl 8 today 19th.
So his grew full size in 3days, I have had mine 6days and they still are not full grown. They are all growing at the same rate though. I give one to another character a few days ago, and now its full grown as well. So whatever the
formula is they use, it seems to be character dependent.
The pets type doesnt seem to dictate growth spurt rate.
So its still a mystery and still a good chuckle for the
Devs behind the scenes...
So, until I get an answer from the devs, I will continue to use my formula.
PetGrowthRand(CHlvl+MoonRotation+TotalNumberOfEmotes/day)-(Crashes+PatchBugs*LaughingDevs+BoredDevs);
Hey, its as close as anyone elses!