Pets - Playing with and leveling up

[diziara]

Can we do things like play with our pets? And doing so can level them up into a cooler version (adding abilities, making them stronger, etc?)

Starting suggestions for play: race against other pets on the server (defaulting to the bot's pet to race if no one joins), playing fetch?

And winning the races, etc can gain xp towards pet upgrades?

[diziara]

Also, would play count towards making the pet happy, as well as the petting?

[diziara]

So, like, thought: where petting gets a bump to happiness, playing could get a bump to happiness/xp but cost a little bit on the fed bar because it expends energy?

[TurqW]

from @diziara

start losing XP (but not to the point of going below their current level) if they're neglected too long?

[TurqW]

Could potentially have evolution stages: egg, animal, gain ability, gain modifier. Could even have multiple ways of playing and feeding that tweak the probabilities of certain abilities and modifiers.