please allow creature handler pets to be re - egged

please allow creature handler pets to be re - egged
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Proposal
giving creature handlers the ability to re- egg their pets allows them to trade their pet off if they become jedi, or drop creature handler. also force teh creature to have to be retrained starting from level one with its new owner.
Justification
allowing pets to be re - egged will allow long loved pets to be handed down to alts or friends to help them carry on. rather than stored forever if a player changes from creature handler to another profession.
Motivation
many of us creature handlers have grown attached to our pets, this allows us a chance to move it to a playable alt, or at least pass the pets legacy to another player.
let creature handlers have to abiliy to re- egg their pets
 
As a CH who had his CH become a Jedi I sympathize but have to downvote this. Sorry but no. Jedi is a sacrifice and hey you can stuff it and place it in your house for fond memories without screwing up the already low BE made pet trade. It might be different if the population was higher but it isn't.
 
I agree with Tyr and Savacc. Jedi is a choice. You HAVE to sacrifice for Jedi.
What's to stop someone from re-egging, then selling that egg off? That kills the BEs out there.
The only way I could see this being valid, is a permanent degradation of the creatures stats. If you want to roleplay with your pet, then you could. They also could be decent until high tier mobs show up. But, that is the sacrifice you made to go Jedi.
 
lol no trade shared would have been my suggestion at best but I too made the sacrifice. So there’s that. But anyways there’s a machine that lets you store 5-10 pets and even lets it walk in your house without stuffing it. Place it, place the pets inside, display one, done. The name slips my mind. But I think it’s the beast encoder or something like that. A more knowledgeable less forgetful voice may be able to help you track it down.
 
I am for the idea of re-egging/no trade shared for combat pets that have been hatched.

As a CH main who is aspiring to be a Jedi, I do understand the idea of sacrificing/changing your current build to switch to a Jedi build.

If you look at this from the idea of pets as equipment it is unfair....
A lot of weapons, armor, gear, even droids can be traded between same account characters or between players. One of my guildies just dropped a bunch of TK gear on me because they are going Jedi.

Pets are an expensive piece of 'gear' that can't be traded and there are some mutations that are even rarer.

Again, I like the idea of allowing "No Trade Shared," even adding the pet start back a level 1 as they 'bond and train' with their new owner. As I see this as trading a weapon.
 
Beast Encoder & Replicator - a maxed one allows for 11 pets.
lol no trade shared would have been my suggestion at best but I too made the sacrifice. So there’s that. But anyways there’s a machine that lets you store 5-10 pets and even lets it walk in your house without stuffing it. Place it, place the pets inside, display one, done. The name slips my mind. But I think it’s the beast encoder or something like that. A more knowledgeable less forgetful voice may be able to help you track it down.
No Trade Shared makes a kind of sense. Especially if pets are going to deteriorate like weapons in the future. If they're weapons, they should be sharable like weapons. Reset to level 1 with no loyalty and zero skills trained also tracks.
 
True but it was probably years ago at this point. After how many patches? When they addressed it the first time. No trade shared wasn’t a common fix for things at the time. Just because it’s been addressed. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be looked at every few years.
Bare minimum. And you could apply that same logic to almost* any in game system. They could and can just say no and that’s fine. But it’s been awhile.
 
True but it was probably years ago at this point. After how many patches? When they addressed it the first time. No trade shared wasn’t a common fix for things at the time. Just because it’s been addressed. Doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be looked at every few years.
Bare minimum. And you could apply that same logic to almost* any in game system. They could and can just say no and that’s fine. But it’s been awhile.
Still no and I don't think it was a few years ago i am pretty sure this is a recent NO they said. You make a choice to give them up. Your CH alt does not have to become a Jedi and if you want a Jedi you can incite on another or wait for the book. It is not worth messing with a system and messing with BE as well just for something that is really about lack of patience. Also your pet does a lot more than your weapons and armor do.

Edit - It was brought up in Feb 2025 abd Aconite replied
We’ve said no to this before because it’s not good for business of Bio-Engineer. Unlikely a different outcome would come of this but I’ll leave it open for funzies
 
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