A "Small" Angler (Angler fish) TLC IDEA!

[Monkeyking123]

I think that the Angler (Angler fish) Should have an ability to "Outline" Nearby silica pearls for easier collection! Becuase lets be real.. collecting Silica pearls in the ocean in ASA is near IMPOSSIBLE due to not being able to spot silica pearls to the naked eye! (I have pretty good eye sight) And sure! there would be a range to this "Outlining" of pearls.. (that could maybe be upgraded in a radial wheel like we can with the Moschops and Therazino?). 

I feel like this would be a really nice feature, its nothing too op and it dosnt really change anything too major! 

This is for any moders out there or the Ark devs themselves!

 

Thank you for reading! -Monkeyking1700 

[Sloanstar]

Back in the day they did TLC to existing creatures to make them more useful... one of the best TLC was to the Argentavis.

I was just thinking it would be good to see some TLC waves to make some things more useful.

Like mesopithicus, who walks around with one of these on your shoulder? What if he could chuck unwanted things from your or your mounted dinos inventory automatically for you? That might be neat. Going on a meat run? Meso, chuck everything but hide and raw meat.

I like the idea, let's do some TLC waves on existing dinos.

[PrimalNacho]

Dud this sounds cool, but its not introducing a new creature. 

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34 minutes ago, PrimalNacho said:

Dud this sounds cool, but its not introducing a new creature. 

Yeah this probably about to be taken down.

[Sloanstar]

Really though, i think this is indicative of an overall opportunity area to address accessibility in some features of the game... providing a high contrast option for interactive pieces (esp in PVE) is one such opportunity area. Ability to size the chat font, change the font color, change the chat background and opacity and resize the overall chat box are some other opportunity areas for accessibility. There's a mod for private servers called "where are the bodies" this is helpful but not available for official servers. Not sure if it gets you pearl highlights though.

Edited February 24 by Sloanstar

[Ermerus]

On 2/15/2025 at 11:44 PM, Monkeyking123 said:

I think that the Angler (Angler fish) Should have an ability to "Outline" Nearby silica pearls for easier collection! Becuase lets be real.. collecting Silica pearls in the ocean in ASA is near IMPOSSIBLE due to not being able to spot silica pearls to the naked eye! (I have pretty good eye sight) And sure! there would be a range to this "Outlining" of pearls.. (that could maybe be upgraded in a radial wheel like we can with the Moschops and Therazino?). 

I feel like this would be a really nice feature, its nothing too op and it dosnt really change anything too major! 

This is for any moders out there or the Ark devs themselves!

 

Thank you for reading! -Monkeyking1700 

The idea is not bad, also because the anglerfish is tamed mainly to find and take pearls. If I can add one thing I would say that I would make the male smaller than the female, as is the case with existing specimens.

[Ermerus]

15 hours ago, Sloanstar said:

Back in the day they did TLC to existing creatures to make them more useful... one of the best TLC was to the Argentavis.

I was just thinking it would be good to see some TLC waves to make some things more useful.

Like mesopithicus, who walks around with one of these on your shoulder? What if he could chuck unwanted things from your or your mounted dinos inventory automatically for you? That might be neat. Going on a meat run? Meso, chuck everything but hide and raw meat.

I like the idea, let's do some TLC waves on existing dinos.

Don't get your hopes up, with the advent of mods on all platforms, or at least the main ones, they've taken a load off their chest. Aside from the tlc on the movement they're testing, I don't think they'll make more sophisticated ones. One hope could have been that the highly regarded modders would allow canonization, but the only ones who can afford it don't want to since it would be unfair for the team to create premium creatures and then give them away... anyway, the only hope is that these types of comments end up on the front page, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.