Hello all!
I was just thinking of a few ideas for pets and maybe they could be more than just cosmetic.
First, the parrot, I think it would be really useful if we were able to use them as a sort of carrier pigeon if you will and send messages to other ships in your alliance. Now, I know most of us play in a party or in discord with others in the crew/alliance, but sometimes especially on console there's not really a good way to communicate with your alliance unless you friend them and send them a message, which is what I do and I now have a ridiculous number of people on my friends list that I only played with once. Therefore, I really wish that we could get some sort of use out of the parrots by being able to use them to send messages. And depending on how many squares the other ship is away from you the longer it takes. Something like 20sec./square or whatever.
Second, I also think it would be useful if our pets would be able to protect us in some manner. Let's say you're fighting skellys and you get down to one HP (or one shot from death) and you go for a banana in hopes that your pirate's ability to metabolize the life saving potassium will save you before the Skelly sends you to the ferry of the damned yet again, this could be a perfect chance for your pet (be it a cat, parrot, or dog) to show you just how much they care for you by jumping at one of the skellys and reducing their accuracy just enough to allow you to digest the banana and get back in the fight.
And finally, let's say everyone from your crew is on the island you're at trying to solve whatever it is you're doing and you guys forget to keep an eye out for incoming ships. Luckily for you, you have trained your pet to ring the bell whenever they see a ship approaching. I bell trained my dog to let me know when he has to go outside so I figure why not bell train them in the game.
Anyway, those were some of the ideas I had about pets. Also, I understand that if pets must be purchased using real life currency then these ideas cannot, rather, should not be implemented at all because that would make for an unbalanced playing field, which is one of my favorite things about this game. Therefore, I hope pets will be free in terms of real life currency but I wouldn't mind if they cost doubloons or gold.
Happy sailing ye scurvy dogs!
