Creature Handler Archive

I don't know if anyone else has tried this but, it seems worth noting. Tonight I went to the outskirts of Mos Eisley to look for baby rills - the lowest CL for my last batch of L1 abilities. Anyway, another player asked me if I could get some low level mounts for him. Not feeling like training up a couple of critters while I was intending to rush around looking for baby spawns, I used the Befriend command on the critters and gave control of them to the pre-CH player.

Right now, he's levelling up the babies and I'm hunting for rills. They're getting pet xp in my datapad and I'm getting CH xp from his hunting. This seems like it could be a nice lazy solution for those of us who can pull multiple pets and are a little too busy to level up pets for others. I'm just not sure how much of a range I can get away from the pets and still have them get xp.

I'm not sure how this would work with regards to pet xp, but I have done something like this with my alts on my second account and in my experience, you only get CH xp if you are within the distance you would need to be to get payouts from a mission. This may or may not be so with regards to pet xp.

Yeah, I've seen the CH xp fade out with distance. That's why I question the Pet xp. We're on opposite sides of the city and he's into the four growth cycle for the pet xp without me.

It looks like there is a range limit on how far your befriended pets can be before they stop responding to commands, somewhere close to 1km I think. With no commands, they don't fight much and no pet xp.

Message Edited by TuskenJedi on 08-24-2005 04:25 PM