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I now have enough open slots as a CH to start offering pets for sale. My preferred pet is a Rock Beetle and I will explain why, but I am hoping to also get some Cowardly Gurrecks this week as well. For anyone who wants to buy a Rock Beetle the price is 10k, 7.5k for Avians. The Gurrecks will be more (15k, 12k-Avian) as they require a trip to Endor and back. Here is how I train them, why, and how you can get the most out of a pet.
First we will trade the pet. This is pretty standard but often bugged as datapad trade objects often don't appear in the trade window. I may ask you to accept an "empty" trade, then pay me when you verify you have the pet.
When you receive the pet it will appear in your datapad. A radial menu will have some choices including call if the pet is uncalled yet and store if you have it out. Store is no longer available on the creatures radial menu, only on his datapad radial menu. Also on when you select the pet in the datapad all his trained commands will show up as well as some other vital information including vitality. Pets can be called in a city, in your house (or anyone structure currently), and from a camp. They can be stored anywhere, just not for 30 secs after combat has concluded.
I will give your pet any name you want. I will train him to respond to his name and the command but I don't recommend it. What I recommend is the standard commands I issue to my own pets. If you have to say the name and command every time, you will have to put each command in your toolbar as a macro. I feel this is a waste of space. I train all commands except release as a single letter, most near the return key so you type 1 letter and hit return and your pet does it. I did put follow in a macro as when you are crossing "zone lines" just outside cities you will want to spam follow to keep your pet from stopping.
I won't go into every command but here are a few. Attack is just that. Target a creature, issue the attack command and watch your pet go. I don't use the group command with my pets when hunting creatures because when grouped you share agro. I let my pets get the agro and stay back and kill the creature unmolested. That's why they got the nickname "meatshields". Grouping is good for when you want to heal your pet during battle. I don't do it much because I want to kill the opponent as fast as possible and I don't want to get the agro. You can still heal without grouping anyway. You just have to target your pet and heal away. Follow will have the pet follow you and follow target will have your pet... well you know. Trick will have your pet do a cute trick but is important as it takes a small of amount of your mind and heals all the pet's mind wounds and damage in one shot. Guard I don't use, but supposedly will have your pet guard whatever you have targeted including yourself. Just remember if it is you, to include the follow command as well.
Your pet after combat will constantly beg for food (when he has Health and/or Action WOUNDS, and to play when he has mind wounds. You don't have to feed him everytime, just do it when the wounds get a bit high. I play whenever they ask, just to reduce the spam. Just feed the pet any food you can eat. Have it in your primary inventory and select feed off the pets radial. One feeding will heal all the wounds although there may still be a lot of damage that you can wait a LONG time to repair on it's own or just use a stim.
Everytime your fully grown pet gets incapped there is a chance he will lose vitality and overall HAM's. This can be partially repaired using a Bio Engineer's Vitality Pack. It's like a weapon repair, the overall vitality will drop a bit each time, and won't go back to 100%. So try not to get your pet incapped too much. Of course, better him then you though.
Now why a rock beetle lvl 13 over a Cowardly Gurreck lvl 15. Well the rock beetle has lower HAM's 2200 vs 3200 for the CG this seems like a lot, but is not what you think because the beetle has light armor vs none for the CG. He takes damage slower so you have to heal him less. If you are getting the pet specifically to practice medical this benefit has been removed courtesy of the devs. The beetle also has a ranged attack which I like but is not great to hit. Hey, I want the weapon experience! Also, they are easier for me to get, ergo cheaper for you to buy.
I will amend this post to include extra info as questions arise or I think of other important stuff and I will. Hope this is a good start though.
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Last edited by tobiasds on Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:45 am, edited 1 time in total.
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as I have a solid spawn area of Rock Beetles and I don't for Banthas... yet. What do you want him named and how you want the commands?
