Pets - help and ordering them around

[abraidotti]

• It would be nice if I could get a list of all valid ORDER commands in the ORDER help file, and the HELP PETS entry would point to the HELP ORDER entry.
• Since some pets have innate skills like trip, it would be useful to type "pet skills" and get a list of skills.
• Maybe that would pave the way for pets who could cast spells.
• Maybe I could order my pet to stop following me and get an "are you sure? y/n" prompt.
• At the pet store, if I've lost my pet and try to buy a new one, it says "You already own a pet." It would be nice if I could buy a new one and get a message "Your previous pet returns to the store for more adventure," or something like that.
• It would be fun to rename pets.
• Also useful would be if my pet recalled automatically after I had lost it for a while.

[abraidotti]

oh, and it would be cool if certain pets had skills that added motivation to use them. Like if I play a cleric, and a pet had backstab, buying that pet would offer me an extra combat strategy.

[abraidotti]

I guess "Backstab" is not very realistic if a pet has no dagger...

[snellers]

On the ordering to stop following: it's not obvious, and needs to be covered in the help files, but nofollow will do that. Also (I've had this today), you can get bugged where your char has pets in its group but you can't see/find them, and that means you can't buy another. nofollow will clear that issue.