Pet Names 2.0

[Shifty]

Regarding the thread about persistant pet names....

A quick and dirty short term idea would be to add about 20 NEW pet names to the database. Less chance that way of similar names in a group, and hella easy to code.
The devs could even let the community come up with a few.
This is an RPG, for which the reason 90% of us play it for is FUN.

Lets start a (clean) list of names they could add...

My vote is for PingPong

[Xelgadis]

Following in the famous lines of 'Goner'...

I put my vote in for any of the following:
Contemptible
Feckless
Null
Piddly
Purposeless
Trifling
Unavailing
Vain
Worthless
Wretched

[brinlar]

i know a few necroes who call their pets fluffy. but my fav is speedbump.

[flishtaco]

I call mine Jebober universally but if I could name him I would vote for

Grandpa

[spoonr79]

Skittles!

[Xelgadis]

Ineffectual is another rather fitting name for EQ pets.

[encephalitis]

Nicole Richie

[Ecol]

Now that i have my zombie pet I would name it Britney

[Kreeping]

based on what he does ? ...... I dub thee:

1. goofball
2. noisemaker
3. DISOBEDIANT !$#&@!
4. slacker
5. slowpoke
6. eyecandy
7. Mr. 1 round
8. itsnotworkingout
9. werenogoodforeachother
10. maybeitstimewejustmovedon
11. despitehowcrapyyouareistillenjoyhavingyouaround
12.whereyoubeen?
13. youstillhere
14. fdfdfd!
15. atleastyoudonteatallmyfoodlikethatdamnhorse

I think goofball would be my choice

[encephalitis]

Now that i have my zombie pet I would name it Britney

That's where the idea for Nicole Richie came from....

[Mellifleur]

all funny suggestions but I think sticking with fantasy names would suffice.... Devs wouldnt take any of this seriously...and I didnt either..but it was a funny read...

So... I'll add some quirky ones...

1. Onehitterquitter
2. Ihatemymaster
3. Oh`Looka`bunny
4. Attemptingtobeuseful`Master
5. FailingHorribly
6. ILike`Runningback`n`Forth

[Todwelt]

G`backhere`Lilsob

otherwise .... it's just Goner

[Fencek]

I miss Boner.

Simply and to the point. )

[encephalitis]

I miss Boner.

Simply and to the point. )

The awkward Italian neighbor kid from Growing Pains?

[Xelera]

Guildee mage has called her pet "Fred" since day 1... and she calls all the necro pets "Derf" (fred spelled backwards) since they are undead as opposed to summoned... works for me =)

[winchester20]

I've called mine "lil' Boner" since the beginning. Mainly cause it made my wife laugh.

[dxmwow]

I think it would be neat if the pet's name reflected that of the spell that summoned it.

"_____'s Dark Assassin"

"_____'s Emissary of Thule"

and with more complicated titles:


"Saryrn's Companion"
could be:
"_____'s Minion"




*shrug*

[Jebasiz]

There's actually some half-assed legacy code that makes changing pet names quite a bit of work. I request that familiar's be named 'familiary of ...."
instead of .....'s familiar for '/tar' to work better(w/o spelling out the entire name of the person) and it's just a lot of work for code and they don't have the time.

[dxmwow]

Oh ok that makes sense.

Even something darker like:

"Shade of _____"

"Dark Assassin of _____"


Makes the pet sound like some named mob though hehe.

[Centinull]

Lilsob was my favorite so far... But on a serious note what if when you summoned a pet you had the option of randomly generating a name like you doing when creating a PC? Just keep clicking till you get a name you like or just make sure everyone in group has different named pet?
Also, I think Fluffy is the universal term for the Magician's 1.0 epic pet (not sure, so don't flame me), but I was on the fence between mage/necro before I rolled Centinull and read a bunch of stuff on Magician boards.
My silly picks would have to be "Ilikatoys" "Kantank".

[Jebasiz]

You could ask xislaben to check into this, I wouldn't hold my breath though. Perhaps this could be one of those changes that happen outside of a development cycle. During a beta, it'd receive next-to-no priority, and that's being generous.

[Raqab]

Softy
Waxed
Mirage
Thud
Bump
Rangergater
Intimideaded
Swatme

[Kaussau]

Hard as it may be, I think the better idea would be to take out the current code for generating pet names and replace it with what is used in EQII, as pet summoners there have the option to change their pet names, of course strict filters would have to be put in place to prevent the more unacceptable names from being used, but it would be preferable to randomness