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Sold a lvl 34 pet to a customer last night, he states the pet says "Invalid" when calling. Since there's 4 more just like it on the vendor, I had my friend pull it and tame the thing to see if all my pets of this type are bad. He has no problems calling it twice, had him re-log to be sure and summon once more. All seemed fine. But it's my customer, so I gave him a refund.

Then later he's at the starport with it out, giving it commands (he had Novice Scout title on inside the shop but now has Master Creature Handler over his head) then trying to resell it. I asked for my money back and he promptly added me to ignore list.

How can you be sure a pet is invalid now? No two pets are exactly the same, different stats, slightly different resists, it's impossible to know what triggers "invalid".

I've had other customers ask me for refunds on a variety of pets, but how can you know which are scamming you and which aren't?

That's really low of this person. FYI, they pulled the Invalid Pet code last night. Based on what Blair said, sounds like they are going to keep it off until Saturday and then put up the new Invalid Pet code. So yes, no one should be seeing Invalid Pet right now.

Well tomorrow morning they are relaxing what they did. So all these pets will be usuable again. So dont refund anyone. And then we will see this fix come again next week but its supposed to somehow address the invalid problem

My pet still has the 'invalid' code (Friday morning after update).

The post from the dev said the Saturday morning fix. Its friday morning thats what i meant. I should have been more specific sorry. So hopefully tomorrow we can go back to work and wait out what the real changes will be.

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DougNichols wrote:

Sold a lvl 34 pet to a customer last night, he states the pet says "Invalid" when calling. Since there's 4 more just like it on the vendor, I had my friend pull it and tame the thing to see if all my pets of this type are bad. He has no problems calling it twice, had him re-log to be sure and summon once more. All seemed fine. But it's my customer, so I gave him a refund.

Then later he's at the starport with it out, giving it commands (he had Novice Scout title on inside the shop but now has Master Creature Handler over his head) then trying to resell it. I asked for my money back and he promptly added me to ignore list.

How can you be sure a pet is invalid now? No two pets are exactly the same, different stats, slightly different resists, it's impossible to know what triggers "invalid".

I've had other customers ask me for refunds on a variety of pets, but how can you know which are scamming you and which aren't?

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That really sucks. I totally despise people that pull this kind of crap. I'd like you to post this imbeciles name to get the word out in order to limit the damage he inflicts on others.

Even after the constant pounding CHs have been getting since launch finding a master CH (even a lower one may be enough) in any of the major cities shouldn't be much of a problem. Have the complaining customer hand the pet over to the MCH (if you're not one yourself) and see if it can be called...

They are also putting in some sort of trade in program but I'm sure that will hopefully make the next full publish (most likely not). I'm glad I didn't sell these pets and for the most part, didn't sell any pets [gave 99% of them away].

While the new system is good, I felt that the things I did were experiments and thus didn't try to push them out as products. Then only time I charged was for special orders which I am not doing until we get some sort of documentation on the new system.

But of course you are going to see these people crawl out of the woodwork and even ones that didn't buy from you will try to scam you out of $$. Most of them just do a search on Bio-Eng in the area and see what they can shake them for.

that was so beyong low of that person, I would never sell anyting to them again and make a post on your galaxy forums alerting people about them! thats freakin wrong. I dunno why CH's complain about be's making stronger pets then in the wild, its stupid. It makes sence, otherwise why have BE's.. BE's could be sooooooooo cool. CH's are cool cause what can you do with a pet you cant tame? Ch is just awsume to.

Well, if they do that thre are two way to deal with it. 1. tell them you are going to refund them but get your pet back from them BEFORE you reund them. Then if you can see if you can call it (if you have the skill of course). If you can, tell them it's fine, have a nice day and keep your money.

Grief the griefer.

OR... give them their money back after you get your pet back or in trade for your pet. Trust no one. If they say they destroyed it they get nothing.

You should at the very least ban the person from your shop. And I would be interested in the person's name too.

Cressida