Blizz keeps overlooking this. I love my pets and mount for sure, but I love my alts more.
If my pets and mounts can be in my house, why not my alts?
Would be nice to be able to select alts to be visible in my house.
Able to assign pets and alts to different locations and rooms. The more rooms you have the more alts you can put out.
Be able to assign up to 4 alts outside and then 1 for each room based on room size. Main and large rooms can have 2
Yes, I personally don’t care about mounts at all - those don’t belong in houses anyway; and only a few pets that are character specific and shouldn’t freely roam my hose like they did the garrison… the only thing I’d really like to see are my alts and a way to “bind” them to certain (their) rooms.
What I read made it sound like that was a rather unlikely feature… I just hope they’ll find a way to make it work after all.
Yep the Alts roaming is never going to happen as per an interview with Ion. The pets and mount stables will be coming soon. They just ironing out the pathing issues and from what I understand we get to set the pathing.
Ps. I also don’t think the pets will be coming from your pet collection - I suspect these will be part of the decor collection behind achievements and or shop bought.
All they need do is copy your character or your pet rather than use your actual pet or character. It’s as difficult as having an noc or a beast creature running around.
Create the system that allows the game to draw the information from the character that would set the gear your character has. That info gets update everytime you log that character / it’s like how the forum camber or log in screen has your character. Further more you can set situation gear for “in your house” on your character and the system will pull that gear settings for your character clone in the house.
That character disappears when you are logged in to it and port to the housing zone and reappears when you exit.
trust me, they can do it. The game system is far more complex than this - and my suspicion is that people will find this more popular than mounts and pets. The reason it doesn’t come up anywhere near as much because they don’t imagine such a thing is possible and often don’t think in terms of their other characters being around as the character is them - and not because it is unpipuoarnirnwouldnt be welcome.
Housing having alts inside would be ideal.
Especially for those of us who create unique racial and cultural styles for rooms. I can place my relevant alts in that room.
It might be trickier to design but worth it. You have actions centred around the object.
What they could also do is allow the player to create the pathing for the character and pet. So you choose its cycle of operation, where toli moves, sits, stoops. Etc.
Example. Work to this stand pause , do an action 5 sec, 5 secs. Walk north to this point. Do action for this time. And close loop.
Would be great if they gave them some Ai and they wandered around and interacted with things !!!
Agreed it sounds simple enough. You will need to go watch the YT vid on wows YT channel and there Ion states why it wont happen. He claims technology issues.
I call that b/s - they can make it happen.. the places look so empty with nothing in there but a studio - i mean if you’re going to go 3/4s of the way , then don’t bother starting it.
How many houses do we see with NPCs - allowing players to set the NPC path/route could work.