Non combat pets given names should show over their head

SilverBride · September 2021

If I name my Alik'r Dune-Hound Spot, it should say Spot over his head instead of Alik'r Dune-Hound... but it doesn't.

What is the point of renaming our pets if no one sees their names? Especially for pets inside our houses.

Sylvermynx · September 2021

Eh, I don't really want to see pet names. WAY too much leeway for stuff I just do not want displayed on my screen. You KNOW people are going to name pets stuff that's.... grossly objectionable.

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

Amottica · September 2021

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Eh, I don't really want to see pet names. WAY too much leeway for stuff I just do not want displayed on my screen. You KNOW people are going to name pets stuff that's.... grossly objectionable.

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

I agree with this. Especially what some players may use as names. That would force unnecessary work upon Zenimax to respond to reports of inappropriate names and police such matters. It would not surprise me if this is the very reason why Zenimax does not have the pet names to show.

SilverBride · September 2021

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

They could put a toggle to show them or not.

kargen27 · September 2021

yeah would need to be something that could be toggled on/off. Most my pets I use I named Bucket after a dog I had. I do have one pet (the Chub Loon) I named after a prominent politician so I would probably be the reason this isn't a good idea.

Here is the real Bucket.

Sylvermynx · September 2021

Awww - cute doggo @kargen27! Yeah, it's really unfortunate that people would probably do really awful things with pet names. This is why we can't have nice things.

Been there done that in other games. *shudder*

Coatmagic · September 2021

Other games allow you to name your pets and there is a filter akin to the one used for character naming.

Sylvermynx · September 2021

Coatmagic wrote: »

Other games allow you to name your pets and there is a filter akin to the one used for character naming.

Not when I played a couple of them (many years back now: 2006 - 2016) - but my daughter and sister still play one of them, and the issue still exists. Egregiously outrageous names have to be reported to support agents, and sometimes they get removed, but sometimes they don't.

SilverBride · September 2021

kargen27 wrote: »

yeah would need to be something that could be toggled on/off. Most my pets I use I named Bucket after a dog I had.

Awww what a cutie! He looks a lot like a dog I once had named Max.

I guess I'm spoiled from WoW where we could name all our pets and their names showed.

Beilin_Balreis_Colcan · September 2021

Amottica wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Eh, I don't really want to see pet names. WAY too much leeway for stuff I just do not want displayed on my screen. You KNOW people are going to name pets stuff that's.... grossly objectionable.

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

I agree with this. Especially what some players may use as names. That would force unnecessary work upon Zenimax to respond to reports of inappropriate names and police such matters. It would not surprise me if this is the very reason why Zenimax does not have the pet names to show.

I agree also, we already have enough GUI clutter (as already mentioned above). I'd like an option to remove the marker that always shows above the combat pets, because it looks bad in the screendumps I occasionally do.

Hapexamendios · September 2021

As long as it's optional. I don't really want to see it myself.

HyekAr · September 2021

Well at this point even char names doesnt matter as the ID name is what system uses...

zelaminator · September 2021

No thank you.. would just be more needless information on the screen for people using nameplates

Aznarb · September 2021

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Eh, I don't really want to see pet names. WAY too much leeway for stuff I just do not want displayed on my screen. You KNOW people are going to name pets stuff that's.... grossly objectionable.

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

Just let us disable all pet and summon from other player already.
Their is no point to see them in PvE. Keep the summon in pvp.

Easy QoL + Perf imporvement.

Danikat · September 2021

zelaminator wrote: »

No thank you.. would just be more needless information on the screen for people using nameplates

I never use nameplates but going by the OP's post it sounds like they already show a name for the pet, but it's the name of the animal (like Alik'r Dune Hound) rather than the individual name the owner has given it. So this wouldn't add any more clutter and in some cases might reduce it because the name they're given is shorter (again like the OP's example, where it would be reduced to Spot).

zelaminator · September 2021

Danikat wrote: »

zelaminator wrote: »

No thank you.. would just be more needless information on the screen for people using nameplates

I never use nameplates but going by the OP's post it sounds like they already show a name for the pet, but it's the name of the animal (like Alik'r Dune Hound) rather than the individual name the owner has given it. So this wouldn't add any more clutter and in some cases might reduce it because the name they're given is shorter (again like the OP's example, where it would be reduced to Spot).

But how many would choose a shorter name.. how often would a pet name now be confused with a player name in a stress situation.. how often would a pet name be abused.. the list goes on.. I'll agree with those who say that IF it comes, it should come with a toggle, preferably one that hides pets all together.. I hate looking at them already, and I'll hate it a thousand times more if they start coming with idiotic names too

Sylvermynx · September 2021

Aznarb wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Eh, I don't really want to see pet names. WAY too much leeway for stuff I just do not want displayed on my screen. You KNOW people are going to name pets stuff that's.... grossly objectionable.

I'd go for it only if I could disable the display of pet names....

Just let us disable all pet and summon from other player already.
Their is no point to see them in PvE. Keep the summon in pvp.

Easy QoL + Perf imporvement.

I don't mind seeing others' pets. It's part of the world, an enjoyable part for me. Again, if the disable pets and summons was a toggle that would be fine.

SilverBride · September 2021

Danikat wrote: »

zelaminator wrote: »

No thank you.. would just be more needless information on the screen for people using nameplates

I never use nameplates but going by the OP's post it sounds like they already show a name for the pet, but it's the name of the animal (like Alik'r Dune Hound) rather than the individual name the owner has given it. So this wouldn't add any more clutter and in some cases might reduce it because the name they're given is shorter (again like the OP's example, where it would be reduced to Spot).

This is a point I hadn't considered, but there is already a toggle present... nameplates. I always had these toggled on, but am going to try them off for now, at least for npcs.

But if a name is already showing why can't it be the pet's given name? And I am mostly concerned with the name showing in my house which is the only place I would ever have a pet out anyway.

Also my pets name is in green like npcs, not blue like players, so they wouldn't be mistaken for a player.