Animal Husbandry and moving pets to across the same account

[hollow talon]

Could you allow players to move pets from their stall onto an alt on the same account, and back? I think allowing the pet to be unable to breed after transfer and the pet unusable by the 2nd character would be worth it.

Reason being, I enjoy the pets I have and I would be interested in breeding different types as they come out, but I don't think I have the animal slots to do this while actively using animal handling as a combat skill. I have some of the better bees, and obviously I have he option to release them, but I really don't like that idea. The players into breeding have characters dedicated to breeding as that's the easiest way to manage the slot count.

I think a better balance of maintaining the difficulty of animal husbandry while letting players have flexibility in what pets they have available for combat could be met.

[primal patrol]

You can cage animals and move to an alt that way.

[latent wraith]

Aw, I got excited but found on wiki "only pets that were born in your stables can be sold. Pets that you capture in the wild can never be sold to others. (This means, for instance, that you can't capture and resell Hissy.)"

No bouncing Hissy around 🙂

[pastel gate]

I agree that the slot sharing between pets intended to be used with Animal Handling and breeding pets is problematic. Moving pets to an alt can create all sort of issues, but maybe just preventing breeding outside the stable of the original tamer would be enough to solve them, since in practice you can already use the cage today to do all other transfers.

[cedar tundra]

I think what Yder is asking for is to move between characters on the same account and still be able to breed them. I dont have a problem with this except for if they choose in the future to allow character transfers between accounts, then it is problematic.

[hollow talon]

I think I accept moving it and being able to breed might make the 'meta' having an army of genetic stock and passing pets between the account. I don't think I'd mind but I think long term that wouldnt be fun. I think tossing the pet (that was not bred by you) in a box and just keeping it on another character as if it was banked there to free up the stall slots would be nice. I think if the cost of this is losing the ability to breed it, it's better than the current situation.