Creature Handler Archive

(1)Pet species (lesser dewback, woolamander, grassland slice hound, etc)

wasteland cu pa

(2)Is the pet Bio-Engineered?

no

(3)Is the pet trained as a mount? (if Yes, please cross-post your issue in the New Mounts focus thread)

yes, just trained tonight as mount

(4) Where were you when you experienced the issue?

Coronet, on Ahazi

(5)Issue you're experiencing with the pet

Pet gets "stuck" at narrow arches in city. Graphic is smaller than the arch, but the pet cannot

pass through the arch, and if you ride through and dismount, the pet warps back to the first

impassable arch it encountered.

(6) Is the issue repeatable?

Very.

Just as a check, I tried running through the archway with my other mounts. I did this with a dewback, a giant carrion spat, a lesser dewback, and a savage humbaba (!). None of these other mount pets (all natural tames, all mount trained prior to publish 6) got stuck on the archway, but the wasteland cu pa did get stuck. The wasteland cu pa was also tamed prior to publish 6. The wasteland cu pa would not come through the arch way when a follow command was issued, either. It seems to be unable to pass through the archway either when mounted or unmounted, but when I ride the savage humbaba the arch graphic hits me square in the chest and I pass right through without incident.

Message Edited by SioBabble on 03-16-2004 10:54 PM

Don't know if you got all you need but I can add I had the same small arch problem with my natural bull bantha trained as mount. It warps back to any small arch I've passed when I dismount. Happened in Mos Eisley, Starsider. Prolly not an coincident it only occurs with the two brand new mounts.

All pets with ranged attack wont use it period. Dosent matter if its BE or wild, species makes no difference either. They nerfed ranged attacks totally lol.

I have 2 BE Narglatchs level 35. If I have them out and then call a probot the bot will follow commands but the cats ignore all commands and do not auto follow. Storing the bot solves the problem. I have not tried it the other way around.

(1) Pet species (lesser dewback, woolamander, grassland slice hound, etc)

cu pa

(2) Is the pet Bio-Engineered?

no. tamed about a month after release.

(3) Is the pet trained as a mount? (if Yes, please cross-post your issue in the New Mounts focus thread)

yes. that's when he went bad.

(4) Where were you when you experienced the issue?

mos entha

(5) Issue you're experiencing with the pet

pet warps back to a certain location when dismounted. (the location happened to be a spot where i had been attacked a few seconds previously.) pet can't be stored when you're sitting on him because he's out of range. apparently it's because he's still in that certain location because if you dismount, he'll pop back to that spot. and you have to go right up to him, too. he won't obey follow command.

(6) Is the issue repeatable?

i don't know. before i had problems mentioned above I had dismounted after being attacked without noticing an issue, but in that case, the location where we'd been attacked was so close to where i'd dismounted, i wouldn't have noticed the warp.

Well, enough people are saying the same thing... so I wonder if it's an actual problem? Maybe SOE should form a committee, discuss demographics of it, assign 5 developers to create a section in the Ctrl - H holocron "help system" stating how good the holocron "help system" is... and then by that time, forget what the original complaints were, and repost here to ask the same question(s).

Ya. That sounds good.

Ok, enough severe sarcasm. Sorry. I have to vent sometimes. Here's my story of problems I encountered last night...

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I went to Dathomir last night, for a Rancor hunt, to get some big-time Creature Handler XP. Here's what happened.

- in the Outpost, called my pet (a level 29 BE Gurrcat)

- met up with all the hunt party members, and headed out on speeders

- the pet cannot keep up, and don't think about slowing down or you'll lose your hunt party and probably get killed by the creatures (if you've never been to Dathomir... go there, head out at least 1000 meters for awhile, and you'll find out)

- got to the 1st Rancor lair... pet was too far behind for any type of call or follow command, had to store it and recall it. Without the camp had to wait 15 seconds... no big deal, right? Wrong !! I was attacked, ran behind other group members, while hitting the Peace button. Had to wait half a minute after combat mode to reissue a call again, then another 15 seconds for the pet. Then I get my pet... one minute after initially calling it. By now, 2 Rancors are dead and I'm sure that the other hunt group members are wondering what the heck I am doing just standing there !!! During the fight, my Gurrcat will not use either of it's special attacks... either by itself, by me saying it, shouting it, or using the "/tellpet (name) specailattackcommand"

- 2nd Rancor lair... same as above, except it happened twice (that I tried to call, got aggro'd, had to run, hit Peace, wait out the timers...)

When trying to use my mount pet as a tank, it WILL NOT follow me. The macro that I created to get it to follow is actually more like "come here"... then it stays there, not following me if I move again.

Now, in the end, I did manage to make a lot of XP last night for CH... since a few of the lairs were quite close together and my pet managed to keep close enough. BUT... you can see the problem with these timer waiting sessions. If it weren't for the protection of my hunt party... I would have been screwed.

Again, all my BE pets are missing their damage, speed and attack ratings. All my non-BE pets are fine. I currently have no mounted pets.

1) Pet Species: Bantha CL 13

2) Bio Engineer: Yes, I made it.

3) Trained as a mount on Tuesday March 16

4) Gorath Server, Theed, Naboo.

5) Beforebeing a mount,I could tell it my FOLLOW ME command in spatial and it would follow me. Now, it will not listen to the spatial FOLLOW ME command. AND it will not listen to the /TELLPET FOLLOW ME either. It will not move at all. Also, there is a big delay between when I apply a PET STIM to when the HAM bars will show that the pet is healed. I can get it to listen to the spatial or tellpet commands for GROUP, ATTACK, TRICK1 (though with some delay).

6) Yes it was repeatable. BUT. I retrained the FOLLOW ME command it for the few minutes I played before logging the pet listened.

1) Pet Species: Dewback CL10

2) Bio Engineered: Yes

3) Tamed a long time ago,before Publish 6

4) Naritus Server. Anywhere, any time I use the pet.

5) Won't listen to the spatial FOLLOW ME command. It will listen to the TELLPET FOLLOW ME command. Before publish 6 the pet ALWAYS worked with all spatial commands. Now, since Publish 6 it will listen to the TELLPET FOLLOW ME command at least until he catches up to me. Then he stops and I have to reissue the command.

Message Edited by Tomokato on 03-17-2004 09:27 AM

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Vertexon wrote:

Thanks folks. Excellent feedback. I've passed these along to Thunderheart.

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And all TH will do is laugh his head off and then delete the message.

thanks devs for making pets even dumber then they were before. they never follow me and they disapeer all the time on me. especially my cupa mount, ill get off him and he will turn invisible but my data pad says he is still out. god this is all on purpose to make it be more of a pain in the ass to be a ch. devs you suck, you dont fix anything you just keep adding to our already serious and many problems. if your going to get rid of ch then just do it already. this is illegal what your doing to ch, its called cruel and unusual punishment!

ok my pets got their lvl up, maybe it was later as it should cause of the downtime

Given that the mounted pets not following was a "feature" added with publish 6, and given that it is not yet fixed, can we please get an unsaddle command? It's kinda obvious pet mounts have been phased out by the developers and per usual we are the last to know.

the auto store is getting really bad .. had 4 different pets auto store 8 different times last night (tried each pet twice) plus my bike was auto storing also ... i've never had this happen so much in one night ...