[Poggio]

Oh god, the tanks. My fish kept dying so hard. I am so bad with pet sites. I hope that Trisphee never adopts a pet side system.

[littl3chocobo]

or if it did one like unicreatures where they never get sad and die XD

[Poggio]

oh but then we would have to do the clicky thing and well I am sure if Asami knew coding she could maintain it too. xD Which would be adorable.

[littl3chocobo]

hahaha, the asa project? XD

[Asami]

Did somebody say my name? :3

[littl3chocobo]

maaaaaaybe~ what was your name again? XD bruce or something?

[Illusion]

Originally Posted by Poggio

Oh god, the tanks. My fish kept dying so hard. I am so bad with pet sites. I hope that Trisphee never adopts a pet side system.

I can think of ways a pet system could work:

1. Pet never dies but run away if they are left uncared for, and other people can adopt them.

2. You feed him and take care of him, and in exchange he helps you get rare items that come from that certain animal. (A Dog pet can help get you special items that only come from him, with some rarer then others.)

3. You only get a limited amount of feeds per day for your pet, and once you get around 100 feeds you can have your petcan go "fetch" a prize for you. (Sort of like a RIG)

4. You only get a limited amount of feed per day, and a limit of how many pet can be owned at the same time (1-3?). To get additional feed you will be offered a URL link which if clicked on will feed your pet by another member. (There's a time limit of how many times someone can feed your pet. Once someone clicks on the link, that person has to wait 5-10 minutes until they can click the Link for you again. This doesn't apply if you have another pet as they can click on your other pet if you already clicked on a different one, as each pet has their own individual feeds/links.)

5. Once you got tired of your pet, or you simply received all the possible items from that pet. You can put him into the shelter for someone else to adopt, and buy/adopt a new one.

6. Rarer Pet's can be bought for Real World Money (you can also pay to instantly get your pet's "Fetches" for #1) and you can buy less rare or regular pets for aurum. Because you can only have a limited amount of pets, and there will be no trading. If you don't want your rare pet anymore it has to go to the shelter. Giving the chance for anyone to purchase him or her from the shelter, and eliminating a trade market for pets helping to keep this simply a game.

7. Trisphee could use existing animal pixels for the pet system, and make new ones exclusive to the game. (Or release them later in a RIG or something..)


How does that sound? xD

[littl3chocobo]

it sounds insane XD my bf does coding and has showed me a little and what you are talking about would take two or three coders working full-time on it for /weeks/ to get anything so complicated out, we only really have the one right at this moment and he has another job keeping him occupied

[Coda]

... you don't know many rockstar coders then. XD The pixels would be the hard part. The coding for that isn't all that complicated -- having a pet is trivial, having to feed the pet is easy, having OTHER people feed the pet is close to free, limiting the number of feeds per person per day WOULD be tricky except I've already implemented something for that for previous games. A shelter for preowned pets is slightly tricky but not too bad; having pets automatically run away is about the same difficulty. (The hard part here is the design considerations -- who would ever buy a pet that's already maxed out and therefore gives no benefits?) Buying pets is no harder than buying items.

[Espy]

Well, if a pet is "maxed out", maybe it would fetch better rewards per x number of feeds?

[Coda]

The problem then is you wouldn't WANT to get rid of maxed-out pets, because they'd be giving you the best rewards.

I think the result here is that pets need to be good for something besides just the feeding rewards for a shelter to make sense.

[Alpha]

Perhaps a change in form beyond the normal changes as it grows (based on the type of pet, history, and perhaps a few other factors) to something rare.

Or for something a bit more practical in the shape of a discount, given a history of taking care of pets (well), in a shop or multiple shops based on the type of pet or whatnot. Just some ideas.

[Twigg]

Stop it youre making me want this so bad. D:

Also for the maxed out issue would it be possible so that when the pet is put up for adoption its level gets reduced down to zero so the new owner can start fresh? Only they wouldn't have a say in the name or personality or anything. o3o

/rambling

[Coda]

That'd ruin the rarity of the rewards. :( It would allow the reward sequence to be repeated indefinitely -- consider sending your pet to a shelter and then buying it with a mule.

[Twigg]

Ohhhhh you make a valid point. I didn't think about the possibility of mules. D:

u so smart coda.

[Coda]

Just keeping my eye on game balance, that's all.