Dumb P.E.T.s

Our pets need a fix. I'm proposing the developers do something to stop the pet from constantly missing resources/bonus boxes. When it gets stuck in a cycle in the palladium field, you can go for minutes on end getting nothing. After missing two resources, it needs to relocate to further its collecting.
Also, why does the pet go back and forth between bonus boxes without picking them up? The auto looter needs to work just like the auto resource collector, going to the closest bonus box instead of flying around like a moron.

 

Great idea , +1. My pet tries to pick up the same boxes as me but is pretty good collecting pally until it gets in a loop following other pets around that beat it to every resource.

 

Agree, +1 for me.

 

Yes!!! I believe the pet should be disciplined to not run around while firing on a target there by wasting fuel.
I believe the pet should also be able to keep up with you when you have to chase or lure your target.
It would be a boon if in defense mode the pet stays between you and your target while maintaining cover fire as opposed to stopping to catch up with you.

 

All points raised here are correct and really need addressing.

If pet fails to collect 2 resources it should fly back to your ship for 3 seconds and then start searching for the next resource.

Pet should stop stopping for no reason when following you. It is supposed to be slightly faster than your ship so why is it always lagging behind in a fight?

Whatever "fix" was done to the autoloot gear needs undoing because it has rendered the ability of the pet to collect boxes next to useless.

+3

 

Dumb PET's what can I say? Change them! I don't really have a problem with them in palli, if I get several messages saying nothing was picked up I just put it in passive mode for a couple secs then set it back to resources. That usually does the trick.

As to collecting bonus boxes, well my PET is a completely confused piece of junk. I've gotten so frustrated with it when I'm in bmaps looking for booty keys while my PET is supposed to be boxing that I simply shoot the dumb thing till it goes away in a cloud of space debris. The poor fella needs reworked in that department for sure.

The thing that really stumps me is kamikaze. Why is it that sometimes when I set it the PET goes to target then pops immediately and other times it gets to the target then sits there for several seconds? At one time I set the kami then used my Aegis's hp repair ability and when the seven seconds ran out my PET was still processing it's orders to pop. That is very frustrating when the target is a pack of BK's or something similar in a galaxy gate.

In short it would be awesome if the devs could rework the PET's abilities to make them more user friendly.

In regards to post #4. The PET's fuel usage is based on the minute, not by how much it moves. So when your PET is happily zipping around it doesn't use any extra fuel as you seem to think it does.

 

Well fuel consumptive or not, it is annoying.

 

I believe the answer here lies in the target. If the target is stationary the pet moves onto it and explodes without delay. If the pet moves to explode and the target isn't there anymore there is an unnecessary delay while the pet "processes it's orders to pop" lol

 

That's probably it whoeva. But in the instance I was speaking once all my abilities and kami were reset I moved to the pack of boss Lordakiums, stopped and hit all my hot keys and set the kami off pretty much at once. The targeted Lord then stopped 1 sec into the timers, after the 7 seconds ticked away the PET finally popped, 6 seconds after the target was stationary. That is an eternity when 6 boss Lords are hitting you, Aegis abilities or not.

 

Or half an eternity if you used ISH

 

lol, touche

 

Thanks guys. VESPID brought up a good point of the pet keeping up with you in a fight because it should be faster. Also, the kamikaze isn't much of an issue. Keep the npcs moving towards you and double back when you hit kami. the npcs will go past you, and then back onto the pet right as it bursts. It would be nice if there wasn't a durn waiting time when it missed.

 

Pets diffidently need some learning. lol