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Game over 10 year old...yet NO PET TAB or extra Storage tabs?
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Yes... it has been asked several times. Other improvements launched come at times with the phrase "Players asked for it". Yet, this keeps being ignored.
We did get an R&D tab but what about a Pet tab or some other sort of storage tab?
Devs please listen up...if you put this up for profit on the C-Store, I'm sure some of us PET collectors would be willing to pay a EXTRA $$$ price for it.
borticuscryptic wrote about 2- 3 yrs ago: »
The idea of a system/feature that ties into Vanity Pets has been seriously considered multiple times over my tenure on the STO team. It's likely to happen at some point, but not a complete guarantee. And as for when? I couldn't even begin to guess.
It's been a while a hope we are close to the "someday" scenario?
Please keep this idea floating in someone's Quality of life improvement project. Over 10 years almost great time to improve.
We did get an R&D tab but what about a Pet tab or some other sort of storage tab?
Devs please listen up...if you put this up for profit on the C-Store, I'm sure some of us PET collectors would be willing to pay a EXTRA $$$ price for it.
borticuscryptic wrote about 2- 3 yrs ago: »
The idea of a system/feature that ties into Vanity Pets has been seriously considered multiple times over my tenure on the STO team. It's likely to happen at some point, but not a complete guarantee. And as for when? I couldn't even begin to guess.
It's been a while a hope we are close to the "someday" scenario?
Please keep this idea floating in someone's Quality of life improvement project. Over 10 years almost great time to improve.
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If they want to cover the development and maintenance costs they either need a large enough number of people who are hardcore enough to put up cash monies for the tab, or to decide the usage would be high enough to be worth it as a quality of life freebie.
I have no idea what those numbers are.
Idealy though I feel that turning non combat pets into an item you use to unlock a summon power that is accessed on a separate tab of the "spellbook" would be nice, but I don't know how difficult that would be to code in. The easiest solution is probably making a separate tab specifically for pets, like how there's a tab specifically for crafting mats. But again I don't know how the code is.
The fact remains though that if they continue to add non combat pets, they will have to address pet storage in some way.
I'd assume the easiest way would be a Reclaim page like we have for event stuff. Not perfect, but at least its something we know they can do already.
Of course, I suggested copying TSW on this years ago, but it obviously has never happened.
I admit that in all likelihood, this is a nonsense idea and that I just don't understand the programming. Maybe it takes up the same amount of "storage" on the server side but if it doesn't and this is a viable idea. Maybe the devs should look into it. By comparison, there are TONS of accolades and accolade titles that players have and CAN have with zero apparent server storage issues.
That sounds a bit like just turning the current pet items into an item that is consumed to bestow the summon power to the player. We already have this in a passive sense with personal traits from lockboxes. Maybe they can add that pet tab in the "spellbook" and convert existing pets into a consumable like the personal traits, and using it populates the Pet Page of the "Spellbook". It uses an existing system, and may cut down a bit on the inventory need to track the items in question.
They added it in Neverwinter and yes it was just another (Tab) similar to R&D, where you could store your Pets and click one which one you wanted to Use while on Ground. I know Non-Combat Pet's were available 5+ years before being given to Neverwinter, so who can say the logic that exists on what to do or not sometimes.
There I think they gave everyone 20 slots with the option to buy more; yet I can't say if people greatly expanded the slots. So perhaps that had something to do with it?
Eh... hehe... only 20? Um... I got 40+ in my main's bank.
I guess those who asked for F2P were in the minority too?. Way before STO was here before people used to fume why no STO would go F2P. Then what happened?
Persistence pays off or as Locutus said it best...resistance is futile.
Unlike PC, we console players do not have a "spellbook" and the ability to choose which abilities get slotted. ALL available abilities are automatically slotted into radial menus, which are already cluttered with upwards of 20 abilities, useful ones and not. So if every pet was turned into summon ability, that ability would automatically get added to the radial with no way to removing it. As it is, you can remove a pet summon ability by storing the ability in the bank.
For those that like to try to collect them all it makes sense to want a dedicated tab for the cosmetic pets.
It also makes sense as a couple of others have already stated that the personal & bank inventory probably makes-up a lot of resource drain, especially if everyone if utilizing much of it.
I cannot help but imagine a casino slot machine every time I use the STO re-engineering function with my fingers crossed.
Your opinion is not the law. If you want to think the moon is made of cheese so be it. Respectfully disagree.
Yes, and lots of people through the years have asked for it as an improvement to Quality of life for this MMO.
Original STO beta tester.
They'd probably have to come up with a separate system for Console since there are different systems in play. Obviously what works for PC wouldn't for Console, especially since we have different UIs. As far as I know there are things different between the two platforms that would warrant separate solutions to the same problem. So... trying to shut down the whole discussion based on "Can't do that on Console" is kinda... pointless I wanna say. Even if that wasn't your intention, the wording in your post basically says "don't bother because it won't work on Console so PC can't have it either."
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Just isn't in the budget, the money goes towards more important things like making new gamble box ships and expensive legendary packs!
From what I've gathered PWE buying Cryptic was essentially a matter of survival if not for the company at least for STO.
The implementation of the unregulated online gambling has been a priority in STO for, too many, years now but they do seem to be shifting away from that lol into "whale" bundles.
Interesting thing about Cryptic's latest game that Magic: Legends or whatever, their in-game gambling seems to be a sort of "rumored" progressive added odds of winning gambling mechanic for every time you lose that I've been suggesting Cryptic use for STO for years. What a bunch of ... lol