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Okay here is an idea to make CH pets more saleable. Allow Master BE’s the ability to “deed” pets under certain conditions. First the pet must be a baby, in level not just name, second the pet must be unwounded, uninjured and at 100/100 vitality. Now when the BE receives this pet in their datapad they have an option to “prepare for sale”. This will turn the creature into a deed, it will forget any commands it knows (it shouldn’t forget that it was trained, just the commands so this can’t be used to grind CH exp). Finally it’s vitality should be reduced to 99/99 so that it can never be re-deeded again. This vitality reduction should only be done if there is technical issues with the removing of the trained commands. This will allow the sale of CH pets on the bazaar.

When I first had this idea I though that maybe having an NPC do this might be a better idea, but I think a master BE should be able to do it. If there is a problem with passing potentially high-level pets to a BE then perhaps the NPC is still a viable solution.

I also think that pet deeds should be tagged as “Entities” for the bazaar and vendor sorts. It would make it easier to find them while searching for them on a multi-purpose vendor.

Thanks for listening,
Drogon Ope

Questions? Comments? Good idea? Bad idea? Anyone?

Drogon

I must admit, i like this idea.

The restrictions are to keep disreputable people from doing despicable things, like trying to sell a pet that has been badly abused (vitality of like 10) and to make it so only new pets are sold. It would also be easier to track in the database, all that would have to be done is assign the deed the same numerical value as the original baby with the training info. I also really don't want to see adult pets in deed form, that would allow a nearly infinite number of pets available to a CH but having an instant-adult in a deed.

I like the idea of simply allowing the BE to "shrink" the CH's pet into a deed, but it would have to have a confirmation box that pops up to the actual owner to keep people from greefing. Maybe make it so the CH (or pet owner) and the BE have to be grouped. I still think that they should only be able to deed a pristeen baby, for simplicities sake.

Drogon

Me too!

I would have said it's better if they are actually matured, for two reasons. Firstly is that a fully grown pet is more valuable than a baby, sometimes customers I've had wanted to use thier pet right away but were surprized that the clone was a baby. Also the concept of freeze-dried-pets-to-go means that you could give a CH a clone to train, then you take it back and let them grow in your datapad. Once they're matured you turn them into something which can be sold on the vendor, realistically I think you don't even need to turn them back into deeds since you'd simply need to make changes to the vendor/bazaar database to accept data items. If they wanted to be extra nice then it would be great if pets from someones datapad could be dropped in houses, people have been asking for museums and zoo's for a while now after all.

If the devs felt that giving extra pet storage space was a bit too much then perhaps something can be done to the datapad pet making it into a generic item which can be dropped but can no longer be used as a pet.