Petopia: Family Comparisons and More
I spent most of the day fixing minimum width issues under IE6 (*sigh*) but I did find time to get some new/old info back up. It’s really late and I’m incredibly tired so I’ll just list a couple of useful things.
- There are shortcuts to simple level and zone searches on the front page now, so it’s easier to find those functions. They feed right into the main database so you can start with a level or zone search and then refine by diet or skill or what have you from there. It wasn’t always obvious before that the database had replaced the old Pets by Level and Pets by Zone pages, but hopefully this will help.
- The “Show me the pets!” shortcut on the front page now opens up options for seeing all the pet appearances or just a specific type of pets (damage, armor, etc.).
- I completely revamped the old family stat page (which was just the table of all the stat modifiers) into a more broad family comparison page. It has color-coded tables for comparing diet, skills, and stat modifiers across families. There’s a good bit more to be said about most of these things, and more work to make that information accessible, but these charts will do for now. Tomorrow I hope to get them hooked up to the family, mob, and skin pages.
I got through all of the feedback e-mail from yesterday this morning but I haven’t really looked at it since, so I’ll get through all of today’s feedback tomorrow morning. If I haven’t answered you yet, please be patient – I have a lot to dig through, and I’m making tweaks to the site as I go. :>
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There is one thing I noticed on your family comparison page. You have it labeled Fish, Raw Fish and Meat, Raw Meat. On one of my hunters I went to WC to tame a serpent (snake, not wind serpent) and i was able to feed it the partially digested meat that dropped from the crocs there. Now I have gone back to WC (about 3 months later) to farm green items for enchanting and my carrion bird will not eat the partially digested meat.
Has this type of meat changed from being an edible meat to an inedible one or do carrion birds not really eat raw meat (which does not make sense because they are scavengers)?
That’s a good question. So far as I can tell, Meat and Raw Meat (and Fish and Raw Fish) are identical in terms of what the pets will actually eat. But I haven’t done an exhaustive study on the matter. *grin* And it looks like Partially Digested Meat is now a grey item and not classed as a food at all. Did that change recently?
It was grey a few months ago when we tried this. I was 19 and my hubby was about 24 and we were both getting snakes. I only had 4-5 pieces of meat (my only food) and he had a turtle before hand and only had fruit on him. Yeah this was a spur of the moment thing. We were freaking out because between deaths and how long it was taking us to find the snakes we were worried we wouldnt have anything to feed them. When we fed it the partially digested meat we didnt know if it was going to work at all because it was greyed but thankfully it did work. Ill try it out tonight and see if the snakes will still eat it.
I just tried it. I took my wolf into WC and it wouldnt eat the partially digested meat (which is in fact greyed out) but my newly tamed serpent will eat it. I have screenshots to verify wolf and carrion birds do not eat this raw meat but the serpent will. I dont see why they would make this kind of distinction when all those animals will eat raw meat in the wild.
Well shoot! That just blows my whole table. Heh.
Thanks for bringing that up, Jayla, and thanks even more for taking the time to verify it.
FYI I have also tried Raptors and Spiders and they wont eat it either.
The serpents probably eat it because they were added in at the same time as the change in pet-food classifications (from just “Meat” to “Meat, Raw Meat.”) As such, carrion birds, wolves, spiders, etc. do not technically eat “raw meat” because it is a category that did not exist before the 2.0 patch (if I recall correctly) and the category was simply never added into their “accepted food” coding.
Thus… lazy Blizzard coding, at work.
In my experience that’s more likely to be lazy data work by a designer, but I won’t quibble. :>
Thanks for trying raptors and spiders also, Jayla. Do you know any way to identify what counts as raw meat?
“Do you know any way to identify what counts as raw meat?”
I have not found an answer to this yet but on this thotbot page it says dragonhawks, netherrays, ravagers, and serpents eat raw meat and warpstalkers, turtles, serpents, and dragonhawks eat raw fish.
I tamed a dragonhawk and a ravager and they both ate the partially digested meat like the serpent. I am not high enough to tame a netherray.
I would normally say meats that drop right off a mob and do not supply health from eating such as lion meat and turtle meat would be raw but I have fed many families of pets from these drops. I am still looking for a listing of what is the meaning of raw fish and meat.
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