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Hello all,

Well it all came to a head last night. I was doing missions ondantooine, using my two BE'd cats. I had recently purchased an x34 speeder, and thought that my cats would be able to run behind the speeder and all would be well.

Then a very serious issue cropped up. After every mission, as I would get into my speeder, and move on to the next mission or back to get more missions, invariably one of my pets would quit following me. They would go slow, ptiching their heads back and forth like they weren't sure where they are. So for the next 3 hours (how long my buffs lasted) I drove in gigantic circles, trying to coax my pets from mission to mission etc. It's really sad, because every several messions, they would lose their retardedness, and run behind me like normal. So I know it is possible for them to follow me normally. Therefore I am assuming it is a bug that they quit following me and basically lose their way.

This bug has been in the game since launch.

After the 3 hours of agony, I realized that CH was a complete waste of my time, and that I will be dropping this profession, until it is fixed.

I also wanted to state my opinion that a bug this serious relegates creature handlers to a second class citizenry as far as the game is concerned. When I started running my missions, I had several guildies playing with me. After getting sick of waiting on my pets, they all went their separate ways, and I was forced to play alone.

Also, those said guildies were doing 2 missions, for every mission I was able to complete. This puts creature handlers at a very serious disadvantage in the overall game economy. If a person can make twice as much money as you in the same amount of time, and we all play on a limited amount of time, how are you supposed to be able to compete for the resources to enjoy the game to its fullest extent. When other people can just plop down 2-3 million creds for an item, I just wonder, how could I do that.

I plan to continue posting on this topic weekly to check up on the status of possible fixes, to what is ruining an otherwise fun and compelling profession. If there are any devs or correspondants who have knowledge of this particular bug, and would care to comment on when its possible fix will happen, I would greatly appreciate that. Until then, expect to hear from me next week to check on the status of a possible fix. Meanwhile, I'm gonna go drop all of my CH skills and pick up something that isn't/is less broken than this one.

Heck Yeah!

It's in there - but I don't feel this is the most important issue. If calling delays (outside of combat) are eliminated, then we'll be able to transport our weapons from place to place like normal people.

Hmm. . .haven't had that happen to me yet. I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the heads up.

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-William Shakespeare


DarthMarksman
Rifleman+Doctor+Teras Kasi+Pilot+Aspiring CH

Yeah, this is currently #10 on our Issue/Request list. I think the main reason it has dropped in visibility is because people tend to ride vehicles out to the lair, then just call the pets when they arrive.

One workaround that often seems to help is to use the pet's "Feed" option when they start exhibiting this behavior. Even if you don't have any food or they aren't hungry, trying to Feed them will cause the pet to stop in place and turn to face you. This seems to "kick start" it back into a normal movement pattern.

But I agree, the stopping/slowing down while following is very frustrating (particularly during a group hunt).

-Vertexon.

I play with buffed pets, so storing the pets between missions is not an option.

Heck Yeah!

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I personally go on foot whenI have my pets out, unlessI have a long distance to go. Granted my pets are not that uber at this point, so i worry more about them getting hurt than me and therefore store them when I am in my vehicle. Still,I can see why the problem need to be fixed.

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-William Shakespeare


DarthMarksman
Rifleman+Doctor+Teras Kasi+Pilot+Aspiring CH

GMAN
I moved to Corellia I have no vendor and I don't know the coords to my house, but it doesn't really matter cause all my pets are in the tool box, I may have some in space, but that doesn't really concern you either.

just forget about the time line it nolonger exits her hasn't for some time. we're in a virtual star wars universe and it our time line not the movies. so its what we make of this universe ourselves. once this is realized then you'll start having fun

the tricks and feeding usually work for this... dant has always been a bad planet for me, seemed like the old boundry issuse was at its worst there... since you play with your pets buffed you can't store and call with tent efficently... another thing that sometimes works is targeting your vechile and telling them to follow other on it (they keep up better)... i always trained my pets different commands for everything, so when one was being buggy i could keep telling that one to follow the other pet...

this bug can be broken, but it always seemed to happen more with the larger skins of cratures, they get caught on trees, rocks, a hole in the ground and start walking sideways... steep hills are bad too... i used to play with my pets buffed before, so i feel you pain... just be happy it happens alot less often now, what a pain feeding your mauler every 3 steps...

I can just see a "Wait for the Combat Revamp" and "Wait for the Smuggler Revamp" quote all rolled into one.
"Wait for the Smuggbat Revamp"
Smuggbat, I like that

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