First DLC should be CK3: Pets

[Pied-Noir]

The Tiger King DLC.

This is Paradox - surely it'd be a King Tiger DLC?

 

[polkovodets]

And I want my domestic Indian Elephant...

 

[Froggie]

Can slaves be considered pets?

That opens a whole new topic...
I do disapprove of a slavery mechanic, however enslaving my captured enemies and forcing them to be my pets does sound appealing.

 

[Aquamancer]

That opens a whole new topic...
I do disapprove of a slavery mechanic, however enslaving my captured enemies and forcing them to be my pets does sound appealing.

I dunno, slavery and slave trade was present all across the kingdoms represented in CK3. Even Western Europe, an area where slavery largely disappeared during the game's time period, had active slavery at one point during the game's timespan in places like the British Isles or Spanish kingdoms, so it would seem weird to me that such a prevalent aspect of medieval society isn't represented in the game at all.

 

[Blackwhitecavias]

Honestly the big game-changer for fantasy mods from this would be the animal breeding and specifically the ability to block marriages/reproduction between species. A lot of fantasy settings have e.g. dwarves and dragons as potentially playable characters but being unable to have kids with each other, but you can't do that in-game. Instead you have to rely on clunky solutions like auto-divorcing mixed-species couples and forcing their offspring to be stillborn. Which inevitably leads to bugs and weirdness (especially if you have, for instance, a human conquering a dragon province: the AI will present debutantes that half the time will be dragons, and then marry them, divorce them, remarry them, divorce, etc., all while leaving a trail of stillborn kids).

The downside is that it would make the mighty Horse Empire obsolete, but I suspect we'll survive.

I believe they mentioned in replies to the modding dev diary that mods can put limits on marriages (and so prevent marriages to other species.

 

[Revshawn]

I want a pet Winged Hussar. I will call him Dragon.

Honestly though, you could roll pets in with the inventory system that so badly needs to return. One of the worst things that was cut from CK2 in my opinion. A bond between a man and his sword and his armor is a truly sacred though. How else can you expect him to survive on the battlefield?

 

[Woifee]

I want a pet Winged Hussar. I will call him Dragon.

How else can you expect him to survive on the battlefield?

To run really fast.

 

[Masternachos]

Taking the Sims route, I see

Related: I, for one, actually like the "rerelease the same major expansion each generation" model of The Sims because I don't like pets in the game and know I can just skip it. And I've actually waited for a University expansion before buying each of the last three generations. It's very handy. [Now, their "$9.99 for minor stuff packs that are just a few pieces of clothes, three hairstyles, and a couple pieces of furniture" model is another matter entirely...]

 

[Zeeg]

This is Paradox - surely it'd be a King Tiger DLC?

 

[cybrxkhan]

Related: I, for one, actually like the "rerelease the same major expansion each generation" model of The Sims because I don't like pets in the game and know I can just skip it. And I've actually waited for a University expansion before buying each of the last three generations. It's very handy. [Now, their "$9.99 for minor stuff packs that are just a few pieces of clothes, three hairstyles, and a couple pieces of furniture" model is another matter entirely...]

Personally I think it's fine in theory if there are significant and fun innovations to the mechanics in question, and that the DLC has a decent amount of content, but that's a big if. For example, Seasons and Parenthood in Sims 4 is I think one of the actually truly great improvements over Seasons and Generations in Sims 3, as the former innovate and change on the latter. Whereas with Pets the changes just weren't as innovative so it felt like a lazy stereotypical Sims "redo" of the previous game's expansions.

Stuff packs are mostly crap though, definitely, although there are a couple decent ones like Kids Room Stuff but that's the exception to the rule.