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@Riot Why Can't Pets Be Done?

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PrinceMichi ?? Senior Member
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10-08-2011

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The pet i'd like to get fixed is malzahars voidling. Right now that stupid worm runs around and tells your enemies you're hidden in the bush next to him.

He's a spy
the down fall of the 21 second pet

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10-08-2011

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If you allow people to deselect their primary hero, terrible things happen UI-wise - in terms of feel/clunkiness when you deselect your hero - but multiple unit control and pets become more intuitive - In War3, you pretty much had to bind your hero onto a key, otherwise accidentally deselection would cause you to lose control somewhat randomly - but controlling multiple units was a somewhat easier affair.

However, in our environment, we don't allow you to deselect your champion - and so pet UI is a much larger problem - One that's been relatively low on the priority list for now. Alt + Right Clicking to finesse what your pet does is pretty unintuitive and clunky for a interface - It's something I'd like to explore but it's relatively low priority wise to some other side projects.

Doesn't Generate income? Low priority. New meme

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10-08-2011

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Doesn't Generate income?
I believe Champions are our primary source of income - A true pet champion that works in our UI would be extremely successful, I believe.

However, it's lower priority simply because it's kind of a daunting task that none of our primary designers have time for at the moment - it is a lot of overhead in terms of research and problem solving. It's a much bigger problem to solve than, for example, Orianna was.

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Elan Tedronai ?? Senior Member
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10-08-2011

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but it's relatively low priority wise to some other side projects.
You hear that people? It's lower priority than a side project!

Never gonna happen.

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10-08-2011

Just let us control Malzahar's voidling... seriously... functionality like Annie's Tibbers would be just fine.

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10-08-2011

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You hear that people? It's lower priority than a side project!
Orianna started as one of my side projects you >_>

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PrinceMichi ?? Senior Member
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If you allow people to deselect their primary hero, terrible things happen UI-wise - in terms of feel/clunkiness when you deselect your hero - but multiple unit control and pets become more intuitive - In War3, you pretty much had to bind your hero onto a key, otherwise accidentally deselection would cause you to lose control somewhat randomly - but controlling multiple units was a somewhat easier affair.

However, in our environment, we don't allow you to deselect your champion - and so pet UI is a much larger problem - One that's been relatively low on the priority list for now. Alt + Right Clicking to finesse what your pet does is pretty unintuitive and clunky for a interface - It's something I'd like to explore but it's relatively low priority wise to some other side projects.
not trying to change your mind or anything about how you guys run your game but i used to play a game called dark ages of Camelot dont know if you ever herd of it but there was a select few "classes" as they put it who could either summon a pet or charm a minion (your limited to what minions you can charm so yea in this case in LOL you cant charm the blue,red baron or dragon but you could charm any other minion on the map but im pretty sure hitting promote on a minion in dominion and charming t would cause op issues) but any ways you would be in control of both you and the pet and a pet would have a little bar pop up thats move able and stuff it had agro, defense,passive and two to three spells it could use and youd have a heal and stuff like that but im sure having a pet for a long period of time in LOL would be kinda op so im sure they would have a "life span" and have a cd but yea you guys should take a look in to it maybe the "druid" or "enchanter" or the "illusionist" or the the "necromancer" or the "thurgist" or what ever else they may have who can control and or have pets could inspire you guys into a new champion with pets

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PrinceMichi ?? Senior Member
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Orianna started as one of my side projects you >_>
mind making a side project of a water element supporty champion? D:

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10-08-2011

idiotic idea is idiotic

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10-08-2011

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Orianna started as one of my side projects you >_>
Can you make Magma Chamber one of your side projects so we get an actual DotA-gameplay style map instead of more cheap WoW bg clones?

:3

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