Please don't "cutify" DDO...

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

While these pets in themselves are a nice touch, and does not bother me at all there is one issue that does bother me.

LAG!

And that bothers everyone, all the time.

I wish they had beaten the lag monster before they introduce something like this. Because this will only increase server lag, increase the amount of data sent to and from players, and increase graphics lag in crowded instances.

I think to introduce pets in the current state of the game is the wrong thing to do

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

[Bacab]

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

How dare you bring logic into a Forum rantscussion!

[Ovrad]

Pets are all client side, not server side.

Wait, does that mean that only the person that has the pet can see them? Or does it mean that the data (position, movement, etc) for pets is more lax than for players and thus is only handled client side? As in there's no server confirmation for position every seconds or so, unlike players.

[Bladedge]

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

But Dr. McCoy preform surgery on a photon torpedo and that went well.

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

Wait, does that mean that only the person that has the pet can see them? Or does it mean that the data (position, movement, etc) for pets is more lax than for players and thus is only handled client side? As in there's no server confirmation for position every seconds or so, unlike players.

The latter.

[Dragavon]

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

Hah, gotcha!

Now you have admitted that DDO lag is because the DDO systems on Turbine's side have needed upgrades for a long time

[Bacab]

The latter.

He is working on the Ladder Bug...but he spelled it "Latter".

[SteeleTrueheart]

*natch*

Are they blue? Can I kill them... can I.... please can I? I would stab them and slash them and bash them and call them George. Ya gotta let me kill them, ya gotta... you just gotta. If... if you don't let me kill them they'll breed and then there'll be more so... so you gotta kill them. Can I? Please, can I?

Um, err, sorry. Those little blue b-tards just really get under my skin and make me want to strangle small woodland creatures.

bitkaCK2

No Svirfneblin are not blue.

Xvarts on the other hand, are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvart

[Silverleafeon]

The latter.

Good to know, thank you!

I'll take three pets now:
This one went to market, this one went to shroud, and this one went to the underdark...

[Solmage]

Any chance we can get little Arraetrikos as a pet after we beat TOD?

I think we've all said it before: If you guys sold cute mini-arretrikos and mini-beholder plushies on the store, you'd make a killing with the girls - every time a new one goes into ToD/sub they go Awwwwww! I want one!

[Solmage]

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

I'm convinced a lot of the lag experienced by every day (ie not the technically versed) players is actually client side.

You guys need to give a HUGE priority at fixing things like the huge memory leak that slows down the game when you keep going back and forth to the huge areas (*say GH to Orchard to Desert to Vale), in the course of many hours, will slow down even a beefy system, just as swapping characters does. The average I-have-never-read-the-forums-guy will simply say "the game is laggy!"

Lastly, after doing more research, it SEEMS as if the bug in which if someone has bad lag, the entire group has bad lag is back. I have gathered multiple accounts of people claiming to suddenly be lag free when person X disconnected, or always having lag when person Y was in the group, with both X and Y being known for disconnects/poor connections.

I don't have the posts pointing out to the previous fix/previous time this was fixed, but this issue DID exist at one point, and it's entirely possible it's back in some form or another.

[Sarisa]

I think we've all said it before: If you guys sold cute mini-arretrikos and mini-beholder plushies on the store, you'd make a killing with the girls - every time a new one goes into ToD/sub they go Awwwwww! I want one!

Guilty...

And sadly true. I would buy a Beholder or Kobold plushie.

[Symerith]

/signed

We don't want DDO to get to .. that!

[arconalos]

Honestly Id love to have my assassin or palemaster run around with a cute white kitten. Maybe a 'very special' beholder pet to float around behind you, speaking gibberish

[Bekki]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before,
and not sure how hard it would be to do
but maybe the could add a switch to
"Toggle on/ Toggle Off" View Pets...

That way if you don't want to have to see
"Fluffy to cute and fuzzy bunny"
You don't have to see "Fluffy the bunny"

Problem solved.

Another option would be for them to ONLY be active in Public areas
so they wouldn't affect the active Quest areas...

[MrkGrismer]

I don't know if this has been mentioned before,
and not sure how hard it would be to do
but maybe the could add a switch to
"Toggle on/ Toggle Off" View Pets...

That way if you don't want to have to see
"Fluffy to cute and fuzzy bunny"
You don't have to see "Fluffy the bunny"

Problem solved.

Another option would be for them to ONLY be active in Public areas
so they wouldn't affect the active Quest areas...

Could we have a set of radio buttons that would allow us to Specifiy:

Cute
Cuddly
Normal
Dire
Fiendish
Man that is sick dude!

versions of the pets? Client-side only, of course!

[Missing_Minds]

Pets are all client side, not server side. No impact. Also, completely different people working on pets and lag. That is like asking Dr. McCoy to fix the warp engines.
LAG is being addressed every day behind the scenes. Upgrades exc, that are long overdue are all slated to be rolled out between now and the expansion.

Ah, but McCoy did help Spock make a homing torpedo.

This does explain the mouse over something that isn't background environment (as opposed to a map, invisible treasure listing, hot bars...) can't attack jack **** with keyboard issue that has existed for fn YEARS ever since MOD 3 that Turbine is incapable of fixing even though it massively breaks combat.

[Luis_Velderve]

Pets are all client side, not server side.

Can we expect customized pet skins from fans then? To Fans a Spiderman skin please!

[bringjoy]

I'm still grumpy about neon hair! I love the serious "real" look of my fantasy characters in DDO

WOW may be a great game but I'll never know because I could not get out of that rainbow world of cute fast enough.

The fact that chainmail looks like metal and chain, not green plastic brings me joy. I don't want the streets littered with kittens and cute anything.

[Zadaine]

Ok, so maybe I'll have to endure some neg rep but please...

When I saw the picts for the new pets I was really disturbed and I have to echo the concerns other people have voiced, I mean look at this:

Snip

Maybe we can even get our pets voiced by John Travolta or Miley Cyrus!

I don't care if it generates revenue, it ruins the D&D atmosphere. What's next? Pink pig tails and mini skirts? When I hear people clamor for baby unicorns I get really distressed... Really? This is what you want? Maybe DDO isn't my game anymore... *sigh*

Mature games for mature gamers such as myself you see. If its any color other then black as my soul its too cute for me to deal with. Look at how the dog looks. Where is its brooding and angst at? I want things I can relate to like the evil cult masters because everyone knows being a good guy is for children.

/sarcasm