Guild Wars 2

Started to play Ranger today, and was looking forward to getting names for all the different pets. Unfortunately when I replace a pet with another it doesn’t remember the name I gave it. Why can it not remember the names I give each pet? Is going to be very tedious adding names to pets every time I change my pet set-up.=/

If only there was a sticky where we could report all the Ranger bugs like this.

If it’s a known bug I wonder why it’s still not fixed more than a month after release=/

Because there are WAY more important things to fix?

Yeah, like nerfing the only “good” Elementalists had? Makes sense I guess.

Oddly enough, I haven’t had this problem recently – sometimes the pet names stick and sometimes they don’t, not sure why and haven’t found a pattern.

Pet names only change when you swap the ones you have selected to ones you have “in the stable”.

For example I run a wolf/lynx on land and a armor fish / shark aquatic. As long as I do not change these my wolf remembers his name is Shadow, my lynx Green Eyes, my shark is Wakefin and my AF stays as Chauncy.

Now if I go into WvW and am on top of a keep and need a spider /devourer, when I switch it comes out as a juvie spider and stays that way til I rename him. After I am done EVEN IF I PUT THE WOLF BACK IN THE SAME SLOT I will need to rename him Shadow.

It’s annoying, I do not like it, and from day one I have wanted to have my entire stable assigned the names I wanted them to have, but that is a lot of info to keep up with server side, considering the worldwide number of rangers x number of ranger pets. Is it too much to ask for? I do not think so, but they are aware that this is how it works, it is not a bug it is intended.

Hopefully this will at least let people pick their “go to” pets and keep the names they want =D

“but that is a lot of info to keep up with server side, considering the worldwide number of rangers x number of ranger pets.”

If there are 1 million rangers and they each have 50 pets with maximum 20 character names (consisting of 20 bytes), we have 50m pets @ 20 bytes each = 1000m bytes or approx 1 gigabyte. i.e. I could fit the database on my mobile phone. Even if storage was a problem names could be cached locally, which would mean that at least they were persistent whilst you remained on the same machine (most of the time for most people).

Plus I doubt a lot of people would bother naming all 50 of their pets anyway. Most people would stick to the ones they use most.

And since coding is so easy that EVERYBODY can do it and it doesn’t even require any schooling or anything, they should juts sit my six year old nephew down for 15 minutes and let him bang it out. I’m totally with you guys on this one.

If a Pokémon game on a Gameboy Color from 20 years ago could handle 151 custom names, then surely an MMO from 2012 can do with 50…

Milennin.4825:

If a Pokémon game on a Gameboy Color from 20 years ago could handle 151 custom names, then surely an MMO from 2012 can do with 50…

50 times however many people are playing Rangers.

Second, you may have missed my sarcasm in the last post, but coding isn’t something you can sit down and do in 10 minutes. It takes time and effort, plus testing and all that other hullabaloo.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably HUNDREDS of other bugs that need to be fixed before a minor cosmetic issue.

nldixon.8514:

Milennin.4825:

If a Pokémon game on a Gameboy Color from 20 years ago could handle 151 custom names, then surely an MMO from 2012 can do with 50…

50 times however many people are playing Rangers.

Second, you may have missed my sarcasm in the last post, but coding isn’t something you can sit down and do in 10 minutes. It takes time and effort, plus testing and all that other hullabaloo.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably HUNDREDS of other bugs that need to be fixed before a minor cosmetic issue.

Ok, I don’t recall myself demanding a fix for this right here right now.
It’s not a huge deal, but I want ArenaNet to be aware of it, so that they might fix it some time. It’s just 1 thing less to enjoy about the Ranger for me…

Milennin.4825:

nldixon.8514:

Milennin.4825:

If a Pokémon game on a Gameboy Color from 20 years ago could handle 151 custom names, then surely an MMO from 2012 can do with 50…

50 times however many people are playing Rangers.

Second, you may have missed my sarcasm in the last post, but coding isn’t something you can sit down and do in 10 minutes. It takes time and effort, plus testing and all that other hullabaloo.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably HUNDREDS of other bugs that need to be fixed before a minor cosmetic issue.

Ok, I don’t recall myself demanding a fix for this right here right now.
It’s not a huge deal, but I want ArenaNet to be aware of it, so that they might fix it some time. It’s just 1 thing less to enjoy about the Ranger for me…

I hear what you’re saying, and like I said in the very first post I made: it’s a known issue.

Wulfsbayne.8401:

Is it too much to ask for? I do not think so, but they are aware that this is how it works, it is not a bug it is intended.

Well aware personally that there is not a valid storage reason for not having it, was just saying that was the reason given on the BWE forums as to why pet names did not retain after swapping.

Client side would fix this as well, I am not saying there are not fixes that COULD be implemented, or supporting why they said they didn’t (as I said in my post I do not like it).

I am just trying to point out a method to avoid it if it REALLY bothers you (by using the same pets or ONLY swapping your second slot when/if needed) and to make people aware that Arena Net does not consider this a bug or an issue.

If anything to get this seen by the “right people” it needs to be put into the suggestion forums as a quality of life change instead of in a bug sticky or as a bug post, simply because they do not view it as such =D

Lol there’s way too many thread about the same stuff but I thought anet was giving the hint that they dealt with easy to fix problems first like ie the pet darth vader audio issue… Wouldn’t this be an easy fix? Why take so long? There’s a ton of easy fix like 1h sword locking auto attack just make it so all other skills interrupts the chain, which is what usually happens for all other weapons and skills…

nldixon.8514:

Milennin.4825:

If a Pokémon game on a Gameboy Color from 20 years ago could handle 151 custom names, then surely an MMO from 2012 can do with 50…

50 times however many people are playing Rangers.

Second, you may have missed my sarcasm in the last post, but coding isn’t something you can sit down and do in 10 minutes. It takes time and effort, plus testing and all that other hullabaloo.

Not to mention the fact that there are probably HUNDREDS of other bugs that need to be fixed before a minor cosmetic issue.

Development started in 2007.

When they coded the ability to change the name, they should have coded the ability to save the name. This is not a debate of how much data it takes up vs. how many Rangers are on each server. Buy one 1TB drive per server and there you go. Enough space to hold millions of pet names. Ironically, a 1TB drive costs roughly the same as the game did.

“But they use RAID 5 and would need 3 1TB drives!!!!!1”

Okay.

Imagine if Word didn’t come with a save feature.

This is the dumbest debate in the world. I will restate for the blind and ignorant:

The save feature should have been coded at the same time the naming feature was coded. Fin. Period. Door is to your left…