Creature Handler Archive
Thread: CSR Please store your pet read
PoilDeCarotte
Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:40 am
#40
zul448 wrote:
I dunno if i'm the only one around with this opinion.. but i agree with the CSR. When i am at a starport i dont want to see your giant pet mingling with everybody, its just another useless model to waste framerate and take up screen space. There is absolutly no reason to have your pet out other than to show it off like an idiot or annoy people with it... and as for the weapon argument, give me a break. Lightsaber's and laser rifles arent 3 stories tall. They also dont take up more processing power with useless animations, and they dont get left in the starport when you take your shuttle.
I AM a creature handler but i have enough respect not to be a jerk and aimlesly pull out my fambaa and torton in a busy starport. Maybe in a less crowded starport where someone asks to see some of my pets i'll go to the edge and show them, but i dont have them out just waiting for the shuttle, that's just plain rude.
you are not the only one, I agree with you... I think this is unrespectful and somehow rude too
(ok now, 1-starers, your turn 
)
)edit : oups, forgot (some of you may ask), I am MCH for 4 month now, I never call pets while in town, unless I am overt or picking up a mission
ok you can play around with durnies or chubbas, those little creatures but not big ones (i did not see the screenshot, if it is a fully grown torton, I think the CSR reaction is ok)
Message Edited by PoilDeCarotte on 08-06-2004 03:42 PM
Ronge_Ricin
Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:42 am
#41
What if you were healing him or overt and need your pet incase you get mugged?
Is that a disruption? this almost makes me want get a torton or a malkloc and walk around the starport yelling "The sky is falling, the sky is falling", but the guild War on Bloodfin is locking up the server.
jopenack
Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:53 am
#42
Hmmm I too have called pets while waiting for ships but uaually off to the side. the screenshot is a little tough to see half the area but if he wasnt in anyone's way or obstructing anything I believe the csr should have been more compasionate and just sent a tell saying your pet is fine for now but if it starts getting crowded and he starts to be an obstruction can you please store him...
sometimes ive seen pets left right ontop of the ticket collector so u cant see how long the wait is.
You seem to be polite and considerate so you have my support
:-)
Wallach1
Fri Aug 06, 2004 9:51 am
#43
zul448 wrote:
I dunno if i'm the only one around with this opinion.. but i agree with the CSR. When i am at a starport i dont want to see your giant pet mingling with everybody, its just another useless model to waste framerate and take up screen space. There is absolutly no reason to have your pet out other than to show it off like an idiot or annoy people with it... and as for the weapon argument, give me a break. Lightsaber's and laser rifles arent 3 stories tall. They also dont take up more processing power with useless animations, and they dont get left in the starport when you take your shuttle.
It's already been stated and it's true, that a pet takes up less processing power than a norman PC character, so basiclly what it boils down to is that people jsut want to complain cause they thing it's an inconvinance, if it ain't blocking the ticket droid, why worry, no need to be whining.
I AM a creature handler but i have enough respect not to be a jerk and aimlesly pull out my fambaa and torton in a busy starport. Maybe in a less crowded starport where someone asks to see some of my pets i'll go to the edge and show them, but i dont have them out just waiting for the shuttle, that's just plain rude.
Suenr
Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:04 am
#44
You know, after giving it much thought, I know what you should have done. You should have tried to kill the CSR and see if a CSR (baby) would spawn. Those are one of the most rares spawns in the game, and if you got one as a pet you could always show it off in the starports and wow the people waiting on their ship to come in.
P9M
Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:23 pm
#45
For all those against an MCH having a pet out for no "real" reason at the Starport, do you complain about Master Dancers dancing when they are not actually healing people?
I mean for me the Cantinas are very lag inducing. By your reasoning, I should complain about every Master Dancer who flourishes.
I mean for me the Cantinas are very lag inducing. By your reasoning, I should complain about every Master Dancer who flourishes.
Maidenchase
Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:32 pm
#46
Matsubaa wrote:
dewolow wrote:
I think it has more to do with the fact that the torton shakes the screen when it walks, and some people have a bad reaction with this happens (i.e. motion sickness or some other ill effect).
This has been discussed in excrutiating detail and the resolution was that the Developers would add a toggle for the "screen shaking" visual effect.
When or if they will ever do as they said they would is not the Creature Handlers' problem.
This is a freaking joke right?????? Give us pet's and tell us when and when we can't use em. When I get to a starport the ticket collector is already covered by the toons of a bunch of bored, frustrated morons, who can't find anything better to do with their pent up frustrations caused by10 minute waits.
As a CH taking part in the GCW I have pet guarding me at all times, I could be dueled, I could be scanned overt by Stormtroopers, there are a number of reasons that our pets need to be out and available.
And the ground shaking could not ( should definitely not ) be a problem that would cause a CSR intervention, please someone tell me that's a joke!! If people don't like the way the developers made the ground shake by huge pets, then don't friggin play!!!! It's part of the game, and a part I actually like.
Sorry but I got so mad when I saw this jackazz CSR telling this guy to store his pet. Now on the other hand if this CH is "fronting" and had his pet on that ticket collector to grief people, then he is the biggest jackass of all and unfortunatly little kiddie azzhats make this happen more than I would like to admit.
I'm torn,
Heineken
Maidenchase
Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:36 pm
#47
zul448 wrote:
I dunno if i'm the only one around with this opinion.. but i agree with the CSR. When i am at a starport i dont want to see your giant pet mingling with everybody, its just another useless model to waste framerate and take up screen space. There is absolutly no reason to have your pet out other than to show it off like an idiot or annoy people with it... and as for the weapon argument, give me a break. Lightsaber's and laser rifles arent 3 stories tall. They also dont take up more processing power with useless animations, and they dont get left in the starport when you take your shuttle.
I AM a creature handler but i have enough respect not to be a jerk and aimlesly pull out my fambaa and torton in a busy starport. Maybe in a less crowded starport where someone asks to see some of my pets i'll go to the edge and show them, but i dont have them out just waiting for the shuttle, that's just plain rude.
I keep pets around almost always, cause when some dillweed starts talking smack and wants to duel, they never realize that creature with strong poison over there belongs to me.
Heineken
Maidenchase
Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:44 pm
#48
Inkanissen wrote:
If you play on a system with 512 M RAM and a not very good Vid card then you would all understand. Everything at a SP needs to be loaded, the more players and bikes and pets there means more slowdown. So parking your pet in a very populated area is guaranteed to be a pain for players on a system like mine. It is just a game performance issue, nothing personal. Once had three minute chat lag in Coronet when I was foolish enough to shuttle there in prime time - too much going on there - had to go autofollow on another player and be dragged from the place.
Oh yeah, I always avoid Commandos.
I wish they would make an option for screen shaking from pets and explosions, I would uncheck that box ASAP. Shaking gets old after a while.
So because you are running the minimumn requirements for this game, we should have restrictions placed on us???? Not a flame, but please I didn't buy a mega gaming rig so I would have to cater to the minimum requirement crowd. Yeah maybe they should toggle the shaking, or maybe they should give you an option to turn of graphics and play this game in spatial....
you are at starport
there is a crowd
a creature handler has his pets out
there is a duel between commandos taking place
What would you like to do next???
You know what I think, I think this guy had his pet standing on the ticket collector, a CSR was called, he moved the pet a few feet over when the CSR showed up, but the CSR told him to store it anyway, i think this guy WAS griefing this crowd, I didn't like his "just getting some air answer" and I'm skeptical that the CSR would make this much of an AZZ out of himself, but I could be wrong.
Heineken
Maidenchase
Fri Aug 06, 2004 2:40 pm
#49
I gotta reply to myself here, I looked at that screeny again and he blocked outa whole lot of replys to what seems to be different people.
This guy was griefing and making the rest of us look bad.
Heineken
GFoyle
Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:15 pm
#50
Well in response to the "Why pull out pets at the shuttle?" question: When I'm standing waiting, inwhat would otherwise be "dead time", I do occasionally:
1.) Train pets I've accumulated in my travels.
2.) Pull babies out "for some air" - but more to the point, if pets are called (even briefly) they will grow faster than if left on the datapad.
3.) Pose, play with the pets, experiment with different commands, pet combinations, emotes, etc, etc. This is called "roleplaying" - a concept a lot of MMO's seem to be losing sight of these days. (and come on - CH's can't resist comparing anddisplaying thepets! For a lot of us that's the point of the profession)
I don't do stupid things with them like park them over the ticket collector or send them stomping around.
One further comment - when doing the above I get far more tells from newbies interested in the pets than from people complaining about them. Some of those newbies even went on to become Creature Handlers. Maybe there's something in the theory that people want to "hide" CH's after all?
StikerRunningfly
Fri Aug 06, 2004 6:44 pm
#51
zul448 wrote:
I dunno if i'm the only one around with this opinion.. but i agree with the CSR. When i am at a starport i dont want to see your giant pet mingling with everybody, its just another useless model to waste framerate (Wait a minute, because your system is lacking in specs to properly support the game, other people need to change their gameplay to accomodate you?) and take up screen space. There is absolutly no reason to have your pet out other than to show it off like an idiot or annoy people with it...(So an overt member of a faction who has his pet out for protection while he's waiting for the shuttle is just an idiot showing off to annoy people? The BH/CH who has his pet out while waiting for his mark is just an idiot showing off to annoy people? The CH whose guild is at war with another guild is justan idiot showing off to annoy people?)and as for the weapon argument, give me a break. Lightsaber's and laser rifles arent 3 stories tall. (Regardless of what size it is, it IS still a weapon, and an unprepared warrior is a dead warrior)They also dont take up more processing power with useless animations (See my first comment), and they dont get left in the starport when you take your shuttle.
I AM a creature handler but i have enough respect not to be a jerk and aimlesly pull out my fambaa and torton in a busy starport (I'll tell you what, you go overt, wait for a shuttle to go somewhere, and I'll come attack you, let's see if you are able to pull out any of your pets). Maybe in a less crowded starport where someone asks to see some of my pets i'll go to the edge and show them, but i dont have them out just waiting for the shuttle, that's just plain rude.
My comments are in green.
Stiker Runningfly
Master Pikeman/CH
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DrKomodo
Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:23 pm
#52
I don't remember who said it, but when I'm at a Starport I take out my Kimogila for show. The screen might shake a bit so he's not ever the Ticket Collector. Sure his tail might kinda be in the way, but some people still complain when he's totally out of the way. Some people like to think they get everything, so if they /tell you store you f*cking pet; out of offense you'd keep it out or do something to piss that person off more.
Again like someone else said, I do store my pet when someone politely asks.
I feel the CSR was in the wrong.
Bounty Hunter