pets in towns

ghost_bg_ESO

what happened with this?

hide followers or whatever it was i switched to on (settings > gameplay) and still is a Zoo.

Kingsindarkness

@ZOS_Kevin Could we get an update on this? Specifically what is ZoS plans for this feature?

Most of us are confused with the original wording and currently, we still have pets crowding stations and Wayshrines.

Most of us were really happy to see that we were going to have the option for pets to be hidden in towns...and the wording of the update actually said this...but currently, nothing about it works.

It would be great to know where all of this is heading

Thanks

virtus753

Danikat wrote: »

I've heard in-game that this isn't working at all and that matches my experience.

I went to the crafting area in Alinor with it turned on and I could still see all the pets, followers etc. At one point the little platform by the cooking fire had 3 sorcerer pets, the dunmer banker, one of the raven assistants and 2 non-combat pets, all clustered together.

It has worked enough for me to tell that something about it is functioning, although nowhere near in the way advertised.

I saw a bear disappear as it climbed onto a crafting station in Rawl'kha. It reappeared when its owner walked away.

The range was incredibly small, but it did clearly disappear and reappear based on proximity. There do seem to be many issues with stations not respecting this setting, and Gina's comment implies that it may be working correctly at some stations but not at others. The disappointing part is that "working correctly" may be only a few feet, not "towns" as promised.

DreamyLu

Yeah, same here... Everywhere flapping wings...

fizl101

I'm on console so I don't have the patch yet, but wasn't it only in specific places like the writ hand in points?

Hamish999

ghost_bg_ESO wrote: »

what happened with this?

hide followers or whatever it was i switched to on (settings > gameplay) and still is a Zoo.

I thought this also, but it is just that it is a tiny area around crafting stations and hand in points.
Really needs expanding quite a bit as it is pointless as it currently stands.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_JessicaFolsom @ZOS_Kevin

Kingsindarkness

I posted that the feature wasn't working several times on the PTS forum ...got nothing back.

DreamyLu

fizl101 wrote: »

I'm on console so I don't have the patch yet, but wasn't it only in specific places like the writ hand in points?

Since I see right now a pet standing on a crafting table, I think we can assume the implementation is not as it should be

fizl101

DreamyLu wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

I'm on console so I don't have the patch yet, but wasn't it only in specific places like the writ hand in points?

Since I see right now a pet standing on a crafting table, I think we can assume the implementation is not as it should be

It snuck in while no-one was looking lol

ZOS_GinaBruno

DreamyLu wrote: »

fizl101 wrote: »

I'm on console so I don't have the patch yet, but wasn't it only in specific places like the writ hand in points?

Since I see right now a pet standing on a crafting table, I think we can assume the implementation is not as it should be

Which crafting table are you at?

UnseenCat

I spotted one at the enchanting table in Alinor

redspecter23

I think we may have been misled or at least really misinterpreted the intention of this feature. I was under the impression that we would be able to hide pets in towns, when it appears we can only hide pets... in towns... close to craft stations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that point was really glossed over, no?

Vulsahdaal

Well currently there is a bear and a flappy on top of clothing table in Daggerfall. Cant say Ive ever really been bothered by this, but just mentioning anyway..

Kingsindarkness

redspecter23 wrote: »

I think we may have been misled or at least really misinterpreted the intention of this feature. I was under the impression that we would be able to hide pets in towns, when it appears we can only hide pets... in towns... close to craft stations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that point was really glossed over, no?

I don't see what the big issue is....they should just give us the option to hide other players' combat pets in town..it hurts no one.

Duane

Kingsindarkness wrote: »

I posted that the feature wasn't working several times on the PTS forum ...got nothing back.

ZOS: 'we want feedback'

Players: 'gives feedback'

ZOS: 'Doesn't reply'

Players 'Why do i see pets in crafting areas? Wasn't this supposed to be fixed?'

ZOS: 'We are sorry, this feature is not working as intended, it will be fixed on the next incremental patch in 2 weeks'

Players: 'if only someone gave feedback'

Isn't that what the forums are for?

dmnqwk

Maybe it should expand to 'anywhere on the map because the pet is just another ability they're using and not really pertinent if they're not in your group or dueling you'?

Soarora

dmnqwk wrote: »

Maybe it should expand to 'anywhere on the map because the pet is just another ability they're using and not really pertinent if they're not in your group or dueling you'?

I agree with this. There’s 0 reason to see non-group member pets and even then it’d be nice to have the option to hide the twilights. They can get really annoying.

redspecter23

The current implementation is not really useful at all. I saw 3 pets not 2 feet away from a craft station with this new feature toggled on. If they practically need to be hugging it in order to be hidden, that's really not what I was expecting.

redspecter23

Kingsindarkness wrote: »

redspecter23 wrote: »

I think we may have been misled or at least really misinterpreted the intention of this feature. I was under the impression that we would be able to hide pets in towns, when it appears we can only hide pets... in towns... close to craft stations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that point was really glossed over, no?

I don't see what the big issue is....they should just give us the option to hide other players' combat pets in town..it hurts no one.

You are absolutely right. Now if there is some major technical hurdle that makes this impossible, ZOS could just let us know. Instead they promise a feature that I was VERY much looking forward to as a huge personal quality of life change and I'm left with nothing but a feeling of disappointment, defeat and distrust.

Myrnhiel

ZOS_GinaBruno wrote: »

Which crafting table are you at?

Which crafting table are you at?

I was just doing my crafting writs in Auridon/Vulkhel Guard - and there were pets everywhere around the crafting stations on the plaza and in the Crystal Vial - there was absolutely no difference from before.

In the "Crystal Vial" there are three crafting stations (alchemy, enchanting, jewelry), a provisioning station and an outfit station. So in my opinion pets shouldn't be allowed in there.


PC/EU - Limit Followers in Towns switched ON.

Well, and if you say "limit Followers in Towns" - I think you really should include the whole town within its city limits, including the wayshrines.

AcadianPaladin

I was in the Elden Root crafting area and saw a sorc with a twilight. The sorc ran over to the woodworking crafting area and poof, the twilight disappeared. So I figured it was probably working as advertised. And I saw no pets on the boxes when turning in writs at Elden Root either.

redspecter23

https://clips.twitch.tv/VastMushyGrouseGrammarKing-F_MdYCaFBUlfDnCd

I found the clip where it was mentioned that we would be able to hide pets in town and I really think there was some miscommunication here.

EmEm_Oh

Maybe parentheses were inadvertently looked over.

"Hide pets (in a specific little area) in town."

virtus753

The roadmap also explicitly says "pets" and "towns" with no qualification or further explanation:

https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/roadmap

They can clearly disable followers from showing up in a town (using that in the typical English language sense of the word, not the "crafting station" sense), so there shouldn't be a reason they can't disable other pets. (Bastian/Mirri/Isobel/Ember are mechanically pets and are controlled with pet commands.)

It should have been eminently foreseeable that promising us the ability to limit "pets" in "towns" and then only giving us the ability to limit them within a couple of feet of crafting stations would constitute yet another miscommunication with the playerbase. It's especially a shame that this could have so easily been avoided by setting accurate expectations with clear language. Knowing they have both combat pets and non-combat pets, for example, they should be clear in the roadmap and streams whether it's both or only combat pets.

Kingsindarkness

I think, The most disappointing thing about all of this is the lack of clarification and the feeling of a bait-and-switch.

What was promised Vs what we got...or are going to get

ClevaTreva

Soarora wrote: »

There’s 0 reason to see non-group member pets..

There is one reason: SALES

Kingsindarkness

ClevaTreva wrote: »

Soarora wrote: »

There’s 0 reason to see non-group member pets..

There is one reason: SALES

Combat pets are not purchasable not seeing them in town is what 99% of people want.

Not everything is attributed to the cash shop.

redlink1979

I thought pets would have the same treatment as companions (hidden in the whole city area)... Instead we have: "(...) hide other players' pets (...) around certain high-traffic objects in the game. Specifically (...) daily crafting writ bestowal boards, daily crafting writ turn-in crates, and basic crafting stations.(...)"

WithMyLaserGun

I was so looking forward to not having several flappy pets in my face when I am at an outdoor banker, but nope. I don't think they explained this feature properly in the stream.

Saint-Ange

What a disappointment.

Those winged sorcerer things are the perfect trigger for epilepsy ; I'm not subject to it but I still can't look at them, they're literally a pain in the eye. it's a matter of color, brilliance or movement frequency, I don't know, may be all together.
So I hopped they would disappear from towns completely.

CrashTest

Can I hide my own pets? I can't stand them. I always despawn them outside of dungeons/raids.

FluffWit

Should have been an easy thing to implement since it's already coded for companions (it's been working as intended with them for two years) and they just needed to copy that across to the other categories.

Which hopefully means it's also an easy fix.

FluffWit

CrashTest wrote: »

Can I hide my own pets? I can't stand them. I always despawn them outside of dungeons/raids.

Right?

Although the only one that really annoys me is that damn flying rat that's pretty much essential for any mag sorc build.