[REQUEST] A pet mod

[skeevy]

I've always thought it would be fun to have a mod that has pets to keep our Kerbals company on long missions or to take a dog for a walk on the Mun. A cat could fit in a one man pod so Kerbal Steve, a close relative to Scuba Steve, wouldn't go crazy from boredom while he's aimlessly drifting and waiting to do the orbital burn around Duna in another year. It could lead to some pretty cruel "experiments" where you expose Bubbles the monkey to the vacuum of space to see what happens.

Another "fun" idea I had would be random animals and random animal attacks on Kerbal. Land in the mountains, go for a walk to collect some soil, and a bear eats Jeb....

[Alshain]

I think the architecture required for such a mod would outweigh it's usefulness. That's my point of view anyway.

[skeevy]

As do I, though something might be able to be done with Texture Replacer and making Kerbals into something else. Maybe one day there'll be a races and gender type framework to work off of to make animals and whatnot. If that were combined with EVAFollowers, you could give dogs commands like 'sit', 'stay', 'follow me', 'follow Bob', and 'load up' or 'wanna go for a ride?' to get them in the rover.

Animals all over Kerbin...that would be cycle consuming if they were static and done by placing hundreds of animals for the game to track, but an RPG style spawn system might not be that bad; like where you go to the South Pole area and penguins might randomly appear or not, rabbits in grasslands and forests. It could be added to career or science modes similar to hunting in Rea Dead Redemption, only you get science by studying animals instead of killing them for fur and food...or running if you .... off a bear, wolf, or tiger and losing reputation if they catch you or you disturb them. That'll cause them to flee or change their normal behavior leading to not gathering enough science to fulfill the contract. Or the contract could be to poke a badger with a stick just to see what happens. Do you build a rover that pokes stuff with sticks or just say screw it and airlift Joe down to the tundra?

We could have whales on the Mun for crying out loud.

(Aren't many times I get to reference Futurama, KSP, and SG1 in the same sentence)

[Spacepetscompany]

Rocket simulator turned Safari simulator?