Idea for a actual reason to have Pets in the game.

idk if it's been mentioned yet but pets DO have valuable uses in the game; yes.

Here's my ideas.

Yes, the bird pet would have a value in sending messages across the sea. whether it be a silly message or useful cry for help. Some people might say well why not use party chat? the issue with party chat is having multiple ships in one party becomes confusing to hear call outs sometimes.

dogs would be trackers for messages in a bottle, random chests spawns, washed up loot.

cats would be a mob confuser. This is to say that if a gang of skellys pop up the cat pet would distract 1 of the skeletons in the group for a set number of seconds, then proceed with a cool down.

Monkeys...well lets just say take the puke effect of blinding and change the color to yellow. In other words having the monkey pet would be useful during player combat. As a 1time use where giving it a banana would throw it to a player to blind them partially. The only way to refill it would be to give it a banana so it wouldn't be such an abuse during pvp.

In general all pets provide a npc partner during voyaging. 70% of my game play has been solo, so having even a pet would make my voyaging a lot more fun. Though if needed, there can be other uses in making them all do the same thing. (yet im not sure how a dog,cat,monkey could send messages to other crews.)

@sshteeve I agree with your statement. It's all fine and dandy that we paid for this game at full price but we need to remember that if we want to continue to see future content the developers need to continue to turn a profit. I'm totally fine with them charging us to purchase pets down the road so long as it funds future content releases that aren't paid for.

I think Rare should offer us basic pets through the game for free or maybe a unique pet for completing a certain task or achievement in game but then charge us real money for different variations of those same pets.

For instance maybe I could unlock a monkey by spending some gold in game. Now let's say down the road I finish a series of achievements or tasks and I unlock a monkey with a cool gold vest or something for free. However, I'd be okay with Rare adding to their cash shop a monkey with a pirate hat, or an eye patch. Maybe one that carries a banana around or something fun like that. They would all function the same but the cash shop ones would be there for those who want to purchase them, stand out a little bit, and help fund future free content.

I would love a skeleton pirate first mate who just swabs my deck or polishes my treasure, every time you walk by he salutes his captain and talks in a skeleton voice... I wonder if they would ever do a humanoid "pet". Maybe you could duel it or something, fire it out of the cannon and bones go everywhere lol. Please rare.