This has been a long standing annoyance with me. Probably the only thing that drives me up the wall about the game, I can get past everything else one way or another. I'm an avid pet-class player, and I love the concept of the master mind. The pet commands themselves could use some work. My major peeve - 'Stay'. It seems when you set your pets to 'stay' what they really hear is 'run around like an idiot and try and get me killed.' So, I wish to offer a solution. One that should be quite easy to code.
Instead of stay, why not have a setup that fixes a few other problems as well? A melee/ranged/combination set. It'd be just like the 'aggressive' 'follow' etc sets you already have on pets, but a new catagory, flagging them to only use what you want them to. Melee of course would be great to set specific ninjas to, and you could have your Oni set to ranged so he can dole out those control powers like you want him to. You could keep your ranged thugs back to shoot as the fire support they're meant to be, and your front line brawly brute up front with his melee powers going full bore.
Zombies could be set to combination so you have a good cone attack going while a couple run ahead to take the brunt of the attack, and the robots could be kept from getting massively in the way of your teammates by staying on ranged attacks. Life would be so beautiful!
Ok, so I've suggested this change many times in game, and I always wonder if those are read. This is my first attempt at trying the forums. Thanks for your time.
