Mini Pets - Too Mini?

Kelsey Cain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

None of the mini pets seem to scale against each other in a consistant fashion, presumably to stop the larger createres being huge and the smaller ones being invisible, But at present, all the 'popular' pets, seem to be the larger ones.

I was looking forward to seeing the Gwen mini pet, but she is almost non existant, a fate which all of the human figures seem to suffer, (with the possible exception or Rurik, who is a little portly) and was particularly apparent with the first version Varesh mini pet.

Can we have larger mini pets please? - not in proportion to each other, but a standard half player character size.

Series

Banned

Join Date: Aug 2006

Half player character size? You mean like some ranger pets? Eh...

Kelsey Cain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

yeah - about half the height of an average player character.

aaje vhanli

aaje vhanli

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Dec 2006

I think that's too large... Extremely.

But I do think that it would be nicer if they were a little bit larger. Just enough to see some of the details better.

mikeejimbo

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

Era of War [EoW]

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by aaje vhanli
I think that's too large... Extremely.

But I do think that it would be nicer if they were a little bit larger. Just enough to see some of the details better.
I agree, it's too large. If the Gwen minipet were this size, it would be a normal Gwen.

Halmyr

Halmyr

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Canada! eh!

~none~

W/Me

/signed

Larger pet would be nice, but not too large

Scarlett Romanov

Scarlett Romanov

Guest

Join Date: Jul 2005

Me/

I'd like to have larger pets myself, but considering that they've remained this size for quite awhile I seriously don't see them changing them.

Rich_Izy

Academy Page

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/A

/signed

if and only if minipets are 2x larger rather than being 1/2 of player height...

madman24749

Academy Page

Join Date: Jul 2006

Ceasers X I Legion

W/Mo

I wouldnt make them half the size of a human player but I would like them around 2x size too
/signed

Thomas.knbk

Thomas.knbk

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

I don't really see a problem with them being 1/2 player size.
/signed.

cleo is life

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2007

United Australian Warriors 2

P/

i do think that the mini pets would look good half the char size. but mini gwen would then look like life size gwen?
also, i believe everyone has considered this atleast once in the past and the abruptly turned the idea down, but fighting mini pets? they go into their battle 'stance' after an AoE knockdown gets them, but they dont fight back ^^...
with love, cleo

legion_rat

legion_rat

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2006

668 the neighbor of the beast

TFK

A/

/signed for 2X the size. Half is to big.

unless my hyrda mini can be half the size of a normal hydra >

~the rat~

KamikazeChicken

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Mo/

Most of the newer minis are ~half the size of my monk. >.> They don't need to be any bigger.

RTSFirebat

RTSFirebat

The Humanoid Typhoon

Join Date: May 2005

UK

Servants of Fortuna [SoF]

R/

/no sign

They are called mini pets for a reason, they shouldn't be anywhere near the same size as Ranger pets.

Their fine as they are.

Abarra

Academy Page

Join Date: Mar 2006

Australia

Order of the immortal

N/Mo

most are pretty good as they are, but I think some could do with being a tad bigger such as Shiro who looks tiny in comparison with some of the others.

SuperDave

SuperDave

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Nov 2006

South Africa

Forever Knights

Mo/

I agree, maybe a teeny tiny bit bigger.. I can imagine a monk freaking out in the Crystal Desert. "OMG what are u guys doing, there's still hydras, why aren't u fighting!?" *Wammo puts away mini-Hydra* "sorry, my bad"

Shayne Hawke

Shayne Hawke

Departed from Tyria

Join Date: May 2007

Clan Dethryche [dth]

R/

I think that they should at least have some kind of scale to them, and not all be the same size.

Kelsey Cain

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Sep 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Shayne Hawke
I think that they should at least have some kind of scale to them, and not all be the same size.
I think that is part of the current problem - trying to maintain some sort of scale, which is why some of the pets are so small.

As has been stated, a half size Gwen would almost be a full size Gwen, but if you're going to scale her (or any of the other human figures) against a dragon, she's only going to be a few pixels at most (or the dragon would need to be huge).