Ahoy there Decius! How does thou fly?

I have a couple of questions/suggestions/ideas that I wanted to run by you and get your take on them-- if at all possible. They all involve or are focused around the Pet System and the interfaces that we use to interact with our pets. Although the housing system may be involved as well but I figured that they all kind of go together since we can put pets in our houses. So, here we go:

Suggestion/Request #1
When we are placing our pets in our homes, it would be nice if we could see their stat cards when we mouse over them, as housing items, at the bottom of our screens-- in 'decorate mode'. I know that we can open the attic and then look in our packs and see the stats of our pets, but we can't place the pets from our 'attic mode'. I often have 5+ pages of pets, sometimes even up to 8 or 9 pages, and when wanting to place certain pets- it can be very difficult to know which ones to drop off in the home (especially with a dozen copies of the same species). Would it be possible to view pet stats when we mouse over them in decorate mode...or alternatively drag an drop the pets from 'attic mode' after we view their stat card (to make sure we have the right pet). Right now you have to open the attic or your pack and jot down which pet to remove and then go to decorate and note the name and specie, just to make sure you have the right one.

Suggestion/Request #2
When we view our gear in our packs (including mounts/ships) we see the moused-over, new piece of gear's stat card alongside our currently equipped piece of gear. This is great because we can compare and choose the right piece of gear. With a page full of gear it helps tremendously. However, when we mouse over our pets in our pack, we only see the stat card for the un-equipped pet- not the currently equipped one. With pages of pets, it can make picking the right pet more difficult because we don't get that side-by-side comparison. Is there anyway we can be able to see both un-equipped/equipped pets when we mouse over one in our pack...just as we do with gear?

Idea/Request- Pet Finder Mode
With near max amounts of pets in our multiple homes, packs, banks and shared banks- it can make finding a certain pet very difficult (I'm talking 100's of 100's of pets here). What I thought would be neat was a Housing, Pet Finder Mode (Interface) that we could click on, select one of our houses and it would show all pets placed in that respective house. That way we wouldn't have to go to each house and search for them all...I have 9 houses on my main pirate. From any house we could just open the Pet Finder, click on the house, then get an inventory of the pets in the other houses. We would easily know where to go, without spending too much time searching and go pick the little critter(s) up. I do a lot of morphing requests from Central and something like this would be amazing, with all the various requests and variety of pets/traits other players are looking for.

All of Valkoor's suggestions, above, would be helpful. Collecting/morphing pets soon leads to hundreds of the little guys running around all over the place, and anything that helps you keep track of them would be greatly appreciated.

-Indigo

P.S.: Nine houses? Clearly my pirates are underachievers and need to work harder!

Those are some great suggestions. I will make sure to pass them up the chain, but I can't promise anything seeing as I just run the circus maximus.
Just don't tell Hep that, he thinks he is in charge.

The Helpful Pirate on May 20, 2015 wrote:

Excellent Suggestions Valkoor!

Thank you Helpful Pirate! I so enjoy morphing and collecting pets......looooooooooots of pets. They are out of control in fact. So anything that can help tame the wild beasts, will surely be welcomed by me, and I believe many others out there. You have quite the fitting username, by the way-- always seem to be trying to help your fellow players out...and we thank you for that.

These are very good suggestions and will help those who are pet morphin' power rangers. I can't ( and won't ) train more than 5 at a time.
And as for having hundreds of all types of pets ( so many that you need 9 houses to contain them all ) please spare me from the headache that causes. Ever hear of downsizing, Valkoor?
When I morph, I check pedigree, if it's higher than the parents, then I keep it. If it's worse or I already have too many of that type, I sell it to the egg dealer.

ValkoorTheVictorio... on May 21, 2015 wrote:

Lol, I hear you Esperanza and what I posted was DOWNSIZING!!!

I enjoy the different aspects of morphing & have come to try to understand it's many components. So, when you discard lower pedigree hatchlings, or too many same types-- you are possibly missing out on a some great pets & traits/grants. Well, I would be missing out, as you may not have the same morphing interests as I do.

Higher pedigree doesn't mean better pet, at all. Some of my best pets are hundreds of pedigree points lower than my highest pedigree ones. Also, your pets will manifest a wide variety of traits & many random ones will show up on any given pet. I keep them all because I want to have as many desirable traits in the mix, as possible. A low pedigree pet may produce a 'gotta have' grant or trait, that high pedigree pets have yet to show. So, that low pedigree pet will now introduce that impressive trait/grant into the gene pool & pass it on to your higher pedigree pets. By slowly training all of my pets, I get that variety of traits & a better chance of finding & 'manufacturing' some amazing pets in the future. I've sold probably more 700 pedigree pets than I have lower level pets, because the maxed ones all had traits/grants that I already had expressed in my herd...yet the lower ones had new, fantastic ones that had not expressed.

Also, I morph to help other players & I've morphed possibly a few hundred times based on requests from other players. Most have requested specific traits/grants & or combos of certain traits. I love to help them try to get what they are after. If I sold every lower pedigree hatchling, than I would not have had the variety that I do on my lower ones. For me, in the search to help others, keeping all the pets I can, is a near must.

But I certainly do understand just morphing for the joy of it & getting the pets you want-- that's the fun part. But so is answering a request with a low pedigree pet that has just what trait the fellow pirate is looking for.

While we are on the topic of helping others with morphing, thanks so much for that monocorn you helped me get. Also these are great ideas, it would be neat to have them implemented!

ChrisTheSwashy on May 21, 2015 wrote:

While we are on the topic of helping others with morphing, thanks so much for that monocorn you helped me get. Also these are great ideas, it would be neat to have them implemented!

Chris...you are absolutely welcome and thank you as well! The monocorn was one pet that I had yet to wrangle up. So clearly, we helped each other out.

And thank you for the encouragement on the suggestions. I do hope that they, or something of the sort(s), make their way into the Spiral-- for all us fellow morphers and pet enthusiasts.

Good luck training up your little black and white, one-horned, hopping critter!

It seems I'll be getting a ton of new pets this weekend.