Creature Handler Archive

Use them? Every time I try to have one of my pets attack, it gets smacked around and called Susan. Even by a Diseased Nuna? Can a baby only feasably hunt other babies, or is there a trick to this that I haven't figured out yet?

<shrug> Dunno what you're all going on about..mine have grown same as usual, even ones I tamed, immediately stored, and then never brought out until they were full grown. If anything, this is a bug.

Or just hit the thing once and take agro and then sic your pet on it. All he has to do is hit once for full xp.

I dont think it makes a diff, if you use them or not, mine are still growing, but slowly, and i dont pull them out, if you want them out, just have them walk around with you for abit, and store and repeat with the others, tho i doubt you need to have them out for them to grow.

Nothing was said about this in any patch notes, they have screwed this class enough.

I've notice slow growth as well. I have a baby cu pa that has only grown to level 4 in the last week, and a baby durni that is still level 0 after a week! I attributed it to the fact that A) I havent had them out a whole lot and B) I've been playing on a different server the last several days.

As far as them not growing if always in your datapad and never called out..not true. They might grow really stinkin slow, but they do grow. I had a Bull Ronto I bought as a baby way long before the non-ch having pets, and long before I got CH...I got CH the day before the big patch, and the Ronto was fully grown, having never been brought out once since I got him as a baby some 2 or 3 weeks before.

So Im thinkin its some combination of not having them out of your datapad, and not actually playing your character. I could be wrong, just my 2 credits =)

I had a Grand Wrix that got stuck halfway to its adult size. After about a week and a half, I finally just deleted it.

My Sludge Panthers have been growing excruciatingly slow, but I don't know if it is any slower than normal. They grow about 400-500 HAM a day.

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Leandrae wrote:

I've notice slow growth as well. I have a baby cu pa that has only grown to level 4 in the last week, and a baby durni that is still level 0 after a week! I attributed it to the fact that A) I havent had them out a whole lot and B) I've been playing on a different server the last several days.

As far as them not growing if always in your datapad and never called out..not true. They might grow really stinkin slow, but they do grow. I had a Bull Ronto I bought as a baby way long before the non-ch having pets, and long before I got CH...I got CH the day before the big patch, and the Ronto was fully grown, having never been brought out once since I got him as a baby some 2 or 3 weeks before.

So Im thinkin its some combination of not having them out of your datapad, and not actually playing your character. I could be wrong, just my 2 credits =)

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I agree, I think the key variable here was me not having logged on my character for a week. Could a dev please tell us how the following variables now affect pet growth, and by what percentage? Thanks!

1. Character logged on


2. Pet out of datapad


3. Pet in combat

Having same problem with both bio and wild pets.

I'm not having this problem at all. And in regards to pets only growing when you use them, that's not the case for me either. I have 4 pets I never use that I got a week ago, only had them for "collection" purposes, and they were stored in my datapad sometimes, my droid's other times, and they are all full grown now.

Well it would be nice if they told us one way or the other so we know how it supposed to work.

BTW lorildeh, registering for the forums is seperate from registering for the game, that's the second time I've seen a question on that from you that looks almost like an exploit accusation. Just because he registered for the forum yesterday means squat. I registered for planetside, and have been playing only 2-3 weeks.

Heres an update:

I have all wild tamed pets.. none are bio-engineered

Aug. 19th - Aug 26th (7 days)

• a mountain dewback 4400 (5500) 80% of an adult


• a variegated womp rat 340 (1700) 20% of an adult


• a wasteland cupa 1350 (4500) 30% of an adult

Aug 26th - Aug 30th (4 days)

• a mountain dewback 4950 (5500)90% of an adult


• a variegated womp rat 510 (1700) 30% of an adult


• a wasteland cupa 1800 (4500) 40% of an adult

As you can see my pets grew only 10% in11 days. It seems this is because I logged only once during that time. It has always been that pets grow 10% per day.

This is a bug, and has been /bug-ed.

It used to be that pets grew 10% per day regardless of the character being logged in or not. Now logging in once per day is a requirement.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I logged in only on Aug 26th and Aug 30th.

I haven't logged in much lately, since the nerfs continue and this was a odd thing to me as well. The last time I logged in I had tamed a kliknik queen harvester (9100 HAM) about four days before that. That same day I also got a giant crystal snake (9200 HAM).

I didn't log in for about 5 or 6 days after the last time I logged in. They were about half grown at that time and as it stands today, they are still about half grown.

kliknik queen harvester 5460/9100 - after 12 days or so.

giant crystal snake 5520/9200 - after 12 days or so.

So, once again we were nerfed, or as I suspect more, the devs and Holo have their heads so far up their a$$e$ that they don't even know when they break things - an example of that is his response to the high level babies being nerfed and he didn't know when or why, but when he found out he basically said, yeah, we broke that, but since we disagreed with those types of pets anyway we left them broke.

What an idiot.