I agree. Ban matriarchs in all city zones. Until such time as ZOS can actually make them unintrusive, remove them completely from cities, especially enclosed spaces like banks where combat is a non factor. I'm fine if they just replace the ability with a summon [insert very small creature here] instead. Why they need to be so damn huge (with a morph that actually INCREASES the size) and constantly flapping is confusing.

Other alternatives would be:

Allow other players to optionally hide all combat pets from other players.
Allow other players the ability to unsummon other combat pets when they are in town.
Force unsummon combat pets after X minutes of player inactivity.
Make them much smaller and immobile when the player is stationary.
Allow players to interact with things through the pet (bears are especially horrible for this)

You could basically take a bear or two and park them in an important spot and shut that spot down until the players choose to log out.

Examples:

3 or 4 bears could stand on top of the cake baker during anniversary events. End result, event can't be started.

You can shut down an entire crafting hub if you park enough pets on top of those crafting stations or writ turn in locations.

A coordinated denial of service squad could park pets on top of all pledge givers in the 3 main cities and troll until they choose to move at a time of their choosing, holding the pledges hostage.

I could go on.

Just because it hasn't become an issue to a large extent up until this point, it does not mean the system isn't broken. At some point some group of people will just choose to shut down certain aspects of the game and there is nothing that players can do right now to stop it. Threads like this are an attempt to deal with the issue before it becomes much larger and ZOS should take notice.

+1

I hate the flappy things with the burning heat of a thousand fiery suns. I hate them so much that I never run the matriarch on my sorc because their flapping triggers me. If ZOS could at least add an auto despawn of pets around the crafting areas and bank, you would have happier players all around.

Ban everything!

Just make it a crime like Necro skills

But not having a pet ruins my roleplay!

How can I be a summoner if everyone around cannot see my summons!

It's like, a huge deal.

Dracofyre wrote: »

their wings are fanned out wide and flapping, so annoying that i had to fight with my mouse very aggressively trying to target exiting doors, click on crafting stations, and even in attempt to blade of woeing some npcs, and harder to see and click on strongboxes.

The fact that it's been this way since they were introduced, but they've never done a thing about them, has caused me to assume that they never cared and never will.

So many people have them that they must know how irritating they are and that's the whole reason why they have them in the first place.

We can probably assume as well that certain devs play the game and like them for this specific reason.

Rave the Histborn wrote: »

Switch to first person view. Problem solved.

Or maybe you could switch to inside-of-coffin-lid view.

I want to see two things.

First, pets and NPC escorts should not block interaction. This is a no brainer.

Second, give us another alternative to the Twilight. The scamp can be morphed into a Clannfear, so why not let us morph the Twilight into something else, like a Hunger? I've actually posted about this before.

Summon Lesser Daedra
Summon Banekin (Pretty well just like current Scamp)
>Summon Scamp (Like current Unstable Scamp, but a little more tanky, able to hold aggro)
>Summon Clannfear (Just as it is)

Summon Greater Daedra
Summon Dremora (Melee DPS)
>Summon Winged Twilight (Ranged DPS)
>Summon Hunger (Melee Tank/Heal - would cause AOE heal effect the way Unstable Scamp causes damage)

I vote all those flying creatures be turned into little tiny really small dragonflies.

and switching to first person view doesn't solve the problem.

That is like telling someone who doesn't like when others duel in a bank just don't go into banks.