Creature Handler Archive

I go with the classics myself. "Sic'em!" for attack (or "Spit'em!" for a ranged attack from bagaraset or cu pa ). "Link up." for grouping and "Heading out." for follow me.

If you wanted something a little more flamboyant, how about "Crush my enemies, send them fleeing before me so I may hear the lamentations of their women." Points to those who recognize where this one came from (and no, Conan was quoting it too).

As for Indefatigable (it means "untiring" for those without a dictionary) that's an easy one. One of Horatio Hornblower's ships (check the library for books by C.S. Forrester, excellent author).

"Democracy is the worst form of government... until you consider the alternatives."

Winston Churchill

I preferred the movies; own all 8. Forrester focused too much on events and reads like a collection of short stories.

Once I get range attack worthy pets: Range attack on: Front rank present!
Attack: FIRE!

Well yesterday I was laying waste to some evil evil NPCs and all of a sudden my mout "Indefatigable" stops attacking. (CL11 wild cupa, a gift from a MCH that happened to be near me when I got novice. Still one of my best combat pets. Bonus points to anyone that recognizes the name.) Anyway, I try and get him to listen to 'kill' but in the end I lay waste to the base myself. A few trials with non-mounts and I find that /tellpet is totally borked. Nothing worked. No commands, no pet. Spatial works.

Now I hate spam as much as anyone, so I decided that if the game's forcing me to start bellowing commands, I might as well do what I did back in EQ. I made commands that had roleplay value. 'heel' 'sit' 'beg' and the like. Attack and group were more milatiristic, and I used '/loud Engage the enemy!' as the attack command. (loud is a mood, not a chat type. No city-block spamming.) I realized I liked it; it made the pet/master relationship feel solid, like I was dealing with a creature rather than an extension of my character.

Once I have good, solid pets that I know I can rely on, I'm going to give each more personalized commands.

So. With all the customizability of pet commands, does anyone else use overly complex statements that fit a theme or at least sound better than s! a! G!

I use commands like:

attack = look, a chew toy!
trick1 = good boy!
follow me = come to daddy
group = stay close

it does make for more fun but in a group people start to complain from the spam so i only use those commands out load when i am by myself.

I'm not the most creative person around, but I've gotten some serious giggles with "Play" for my attack command. Confuses the daylights out of the group the first time I use it. I've also used the obvious "Join us", "come", and "chase".

I did know a couple of different people that had a macro set up to cuss out the enemy as they pointed their critter at the target.

I decided a while ago to use exclusively tellpet to issue commands, and to make 'em simple (not 1 letter, I do the full word, like "attack"). But it's hard to tell whether a macro worked with that, so I have it say something in spatial too, more befitting the situation (ie "Sic 'em"). So it does /tellpet attack;/say Sic 'em. The advantage of this is I get my creativity, but in a pinch, like if I accidentally remove a macro from the toolbar, or drag one over the top of another, I have a nice simple command I can type...

I use the /tellpet command exclusively just because I hate spam. I got sick and tired of seeing "a", and "f" spammed continuously that I came to the conclusion that even having myself giving commands with actual words would bother me as well. I've had only a few problems with /tellpet, but overall I'm happy with it.

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Vertexon wrote:

It also seems that if a pet stops responding to /tellpet, you can "fix" it by storing and recalling it (though that may not be much help in the middle of a battle )

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Guess again. I tried /tellpet on THREE seperate pets. NOTHING worked.

It fixed itself since then.