Minions in the House

Just a 'little' idea, going to the point:

Is there a chance to make a few minions stay in the house as pets? Not simply follow you around but have them roam freely in the house.

I would find it fun to come back to my house from the many adventures and find that baby coeurl on top of the fish tank on the 2nd floor or mini alexander coming up and down the stairs. Or even Midgarsorm flying around tho and fro.

Maybe add them as some sort of furniture? I believe this would give some liveliness to our homes.

I just want to put my retainers in there and have them sit down in a chair or something.

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Originally Posted by Arkenne

Just a 'little' idea, going to the point:

Is there a chance to make a few minions stay in the house as pets? Not simply follow you around but have them roam freely in the house.

I would find it fun to come back to my house from the many adventures and find that baby coeurl on top of the fish tank on the 2nd floor or mini alexander coming up and down the stairs. Or even Midgarsorm flying around tho and fro.

Maybe add them as some sort of furniture? I believe this would give some liveliness to our homes.

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The devs said this would be a thing years ago. I don't think they ever got back to us. If this was a thing I would ask every member of my fc to place their mammet in the fc house so they would be everywhere.

It would probably cause a bunch of loading issues. While, it would be pretty neat to be able to have your minions on roam in your house, it probably would take a lot of work to make it happen. Housing seems to have enough problems, and until they fix the current stuff might be best not to add more possible issues.

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Originally Posted by Aeeninwen_Taldel

It would probably cause a bunch of loading issues. While, it would be pretty neat to be able to have your minions on roam in your house, it probably would take a lot of work to make it happen. Housing seems to have enough problems, and until they fix the current stuff might be best not to add more possible issues.

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Well, it certainly would invite a number of issues as any new idea tackling involves, however, they are always going for improvements and given that they somehow are managing to double the amount of items to be stored in houses and dropping the PS3 support, there surely may be room for something like this to happen, right?

I can't say I'm that optimistic, as they still aren't addressing the actual issue with housing that is already in existence. But who knows, maybe SB will surprise us.

I think it would be really cool if some of your minions and/or retainers just hung around your house. It would add a whole new layer of depths to housing!

omg I would love this! I'd just fill my apartment with all my little babies

This would be amazing. I would love this addition to housing.

Not sure about inside the house, but maybe something like an outdoor playpen that would have your minions randomly walking around and showcasing whatever animations they have.

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Originally Posted by Aeeninwen_Taldel

I can't say I'm that optimistic, as they still aren't addressing the actual issue with housing that is already in existence. But who knows, maybe SB will surprise us.

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The, "not enough housing" issue? That won't ever get addressed. If you mean, "Instanced housing" never going to happen.

I kinda remember Yoshi throwing around that idea a looooooong time ago. Was never acted upon for reasons I no longer remember...

They sort of have the tech for this already. The lord's of verminion section of the gold saucer always has random minions wandering around. They just need to apply it to housing.

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Originally Posted by DruakH

They sort of have the tech for this already. The lord's of verminion section of the gold saucer always has random minions wandering around. They just need to apply it to housing.

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Except the gold saucer is a static building they may have manually set the pathing for. If they were to wander free in our houses they'd either have to make us a pathing editor, make the minion detect blocked paths or simply let the minions clip through everything.

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Originally Posted by Dustytome

Except the gold saucer is a static building they may have manually set the pathing for. If they were to wander free in our houses they'd either have to make us a pathing editor, make the minion detect blocked paths or simply let the minions clip through everything.

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That's mostly why I suggested something like an outdoor playpen: so they could create an area where minion pathing could be preset, and then block the area off from putting other housing items inside that space.