Pet missing

[RedBeard]

My Triton is missing. I was kicked from Exodus Peerless 4/17/2021 haven't been on with this character since then, my pet didn't travel with me to Exodus for that battle but was left at the Spirituality Shrine in Trammel, I logged out and back in while at Exodus , but unlike other times, my pet didn't join me while at Exodus. I can't remember if I rejoined with my pet that day or not. Unmounted pets don't log out with you, they tend to stay in game, but not sure why it would disappear. My control slots says 0/0 so it would seem my pet was deleted. Might be that pets should log out with player in every situation to prevent this?

 

[Miral]

@RedBeard, there was a Triton sat in your Rune Library house in Luna (pretty sure its name was Lougie) for the past couple of days. was it that one? I have seen a fair few random pets sat in houses alone over the past week during my travels, that's why it struck me as odd

 

[RedBeard]

yes Loogie was it. Which means I did retrieve it. Although it didn't log out with me as previously witnessed. Same thing happens with a beetle on another character if she logs unmounted. 120 Disco 120 heal on the Triton and some 115s, training it to 120 Disco alone was work

 

[Miral]

yeah, was sitting in your house for maybe 3 days? sorry for your loss

 

[Dan]

Yeah, I noticed it there too.

On real UO they unbound and go wild in a span of 12 hours.

On Heritage I have it set to 3 days which it must have gone over that point.

 

[Miral]

@RedBeard you weren't with @Pax/Victra by any chance, were you? as there was a lone pet in his house in luna for about the same period of time yours was

 

[Miral]

i would like to point out i am not a stalker, though this claim comes up a lot, I'm just observant

 

[FireFly]

non mountable animals stable after you log out but you must have free slot in stable? With beetle if that was blue beetle their backpack must be emptied

 

[Dan]

Also, I am not sure they auto stable if out during a restart. Always good to stable a non-mountable.

 

[FireFly]

I never had issue with my triton

 

[RedBeard]

Yeah, I noticed it there too.

On real UO they unbound and go wild in a span of 12 hours.

On Heritage I have it set to 3 days which it must have gone over that point.

This is only true for pets that are not mounted. I believe all pets should behave the same. There is no warning message on log out to warn of this. "Warning your pet can not be stabled at this time." That is what should be done instead of having to know cryptic UO lore, or remember that your stable is full, or forget you switched masteries to get a focus etc....

 

[Dan]

This is only true for pets that are not mounted. I believe all pets should behave the same. There is no warning message on log out to warn of this. "Warning your pet can not be stabled at this time." That is what should be done instead of having to know cryptic UO lore, or remember that your stable is full, or forget you switched masteries to get a focus etc....

But even this wouldn't cover every situation.

Disconnects, client crashes, world crashes, any other situation other than logging out normally.

Currently we have it set so a pet can remain for 3 days in the wild before it unbounds and then begins its normal loyalty decay cycle.

I dont think changing this to 7 or even 14 days would impact server performance too much.

That being said I'm unaware of any way to actually make it better, especially when over stable count limits, for any of the various reasons you brought up above.