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The rarity of pets is what makes them attractive. If there are 100 pets,no one would care.

Better idea instead of adding another rng based pet is to have reskins for things achieved.

For example: - corrupted scorpions prestiged? Make the skin of Ishhara appear red.

  • 1k rax kills? Ability to change Bill/Mallory skins to pitch black

  • 300% enrage rax kill achieved? Blood dyed Mallory skin

  • "Lumbridge strikes back" completed? Give a bronze armour Override for the pet. Like a tiny Helmet.

A reaper pet with reskins for every threshold on each Boss:

New skins for 100kc all bosses, 500kc all bosses, 1k KC all bosses, special skin for 1k enrage Telos,2k enrage, 4k enrage, 300% rax, Lumbridge strikes back achievement,...

I,for one, don't care about how a person rolled a virtual die on the correct number. I admire achievements, grinds, accomplishments. Not luck.

Are there any more of you who think this is a great idea to get some more end game content out there/things to do?

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over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

I'm actually really interested in seeing people's opinions on this. I've been thinking reskins of pets might be an interesting way to go and was part of a design for a project we were forced to shelve (long story), so I'd be interested to see whether reskins of existing pets and familiars is the sort of thing that players would actually like.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Dingo59

You can’t just tease me like that. I want the long story. I have enough time to read it, whilst I afk thieving in priff

Naahhhh :P

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Dingo59

We talked about this, Raven. No being evil to the players before they have their coffee/tea/hot beverage of their choice. You have standards.

You have standards.

Whoever told you that is a filthy liar!

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Bentoki

OSRS does this I think it would be nice

corp pet having core alternative, elite dungeons ones being able to morph into any of the bosses in there rather than the last one ect

Morphing into any of the bosses is effectively "add a new pet" though... it's just a slight change to how that pet is dropped.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Concordia_chaos

Yes.

Similar to that Musketeer Cat, or the lorehound. You shouldn't even have to create new models and animations, just design an alternative skin for an existing model and that's literally it.

However more feedback would be needed, but personally, i think this is a good path to follow.

just design an alternative skin for an existing model and that's literally it

Such a dangerous word "just". It's never quite as easy as it may sound. But I get where you're coming from.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Bentoki

Is it a big change in dev/art time between reskinning a pet vs adding a new one? Personally I just don't like the idea of pets currently, for those that are sort of at the endgame its currently just "do this content for another 100 hours that you have probably completed" but giving more love to current pets in the form of morphing and reskinning is much more desireable for me at least.

Is it a big change in dev/art time between reskinning a pet vs adding a new one?

Eh not really. It's about the same amount of work ish. A bit less graphically I think, but it's either the same or (at least as a one off) more work dev wise.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Sethyboy0

If only there was a system for developers to get player opinions on one of a couple options ;)

To be fair this is not that level of gathering data yet, this is me getting a rough idea of whether an idea has value so we can discuss it more in future. A poll at this stage would just be wasting everyone's time, nothing may come of this, this is for my own interest.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Fail_At_GTA

Tbh if you or another Jmod has some free time, could you try doing some palette swaps on some boss pets to give people a visual of whats possible for some? Now obviously not everything will work as a simple palette swap (such as the Rax pet with bronze armour on it) but it could generate hype for such an update to be able to judge if its worth implementing.

A palette swap would require an artists involvement, I am not able to do that. My art skills are baaaaaaad.

over 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by ghfhfhhhfg9

is this design project the prestige pets?

No, it wasn't but I can see how reskins would work for that as well.

about 4 years ago - /u/darkhearted_raven - Direct link

Originally posted by Great_Minds

Any word on this Raven?

Any word on me asking a question? No. This was just me being curious and asking a question, it's not a guarantee of content or a future plan. It might happen, it might not. Response here was positive but comparatively muted so there's no mad rush right now.