Yay, a place for minions! I got so excited about this that I reactivated my gold account a week earlier than planned :) I have tested it with a Baldyy and so far I like it, even though I don't really know what I'm doing. I've also had the bug of being taken back to the news page after clicking "play again", but I think that has been mentioned in this thread. I'm not sure if this has also been mentioned, but when I try to add new abilities with my ability points, I get information for the abilities by hovering over the buttons. However, I only get that for about half of the abilities I could add. I don't know if this helps, but the abilities I don't get any information for are drench, healing dew, protective bubble, undertow, doomsday, bandage, aura and dirty trick.

Not bad.

I'd like it to be displayed like minion a feeding trophy? Maybe how many battles you've won kinda thing? Is it going to be purely random event based? Or will we be able to battle with them whenever we want? If it's random then I think it needs to be a really high chance to get the event, unlike say the oracle who I only seem to see like once a month. and tempest who I've seen a grand total of ONCE since it launched...and I'm online a lot xD

I'm all for a "widget" on the profile, just like we have for pets or our avatar!! I love this so far :)

A small "problem" I had was that the hovers over the abilities seem to randomly appear and disappear. Say, I hover over "snap" and the hover doesn't appear. I hover over "doomsday" and the hover appears. I move the pointer away, the hover is still there. I go back to "snap" and now I have two hovers. Etc. etc. :D

But i'm sure that's not top-priority-stuff :D

I had to right click on the link to add my minions in and open it in a new window to actually get the minions in the zoo, otherwise the link didn´t work for me Other than that it´s a fun feature and I´m happy to see the minions have their own place now

This is pretty fun battle minigame. Tried it with the Salamandragon...

Moves: Magic Toxicity Counterspell Witchery Magic Toxicity

8.970192 / 7

What? We have a bug here

After battling a few more rounds, I definetly look forward to more info, esp. on how the healing works; sometimes it doesn't even matter if I heal, I just get roasted in the first attack (I usually use Bandage as first move).... :/

did you use "dirty trick"? I know I had such "broken" numbers after I used this move...

Soooo speed is that just like who hits first? does it have any other effect? are their crits?

So are the stats just based on minion type? does rarity not have any effect at all?

Are their categories posted anywhere for who gets which stats? I see my robot type pets have Level: 1
Defense: 4 Speed: 1 Health: 5

Not really seeing any other connections with other pets? Level: 1
Defense: 3 Speed: 3 Health: 3

Besides the stats above what do a and have in common

as far as the abilities showing info on hover, it seems to work on one line then the next line DOESNT show anything then the next DOES in a pattern with the available abilities to learn. BUT the default abilities are completely random on which work.

No I didn't use dirty trick. Just the default set of moves that came with the minion. I did those moves in order, and got a decimal value pretty much every time.

Do you know how to reproduce your bug?

Love the idea of this

I thought I could, but no... I also get decimals when I use Bandage (sometimes) and my enemie sometimes gets decimals, too. Maybe it's just the way the attack/heals are accounted...?

I also saw that when I have HP of 0,9something, the battle counts as lost....

A link for the zoo above our pets along the top with the Jobs etc makes sense to me since to me they are mini pets. It might make sense to put them in the drop down next to our inventory etc. But I consider them a pet.

I just used bandage and got a .9blah blah number for my health and it counted as a loss also.

On a stat note: Im not sure any pet that starts with 2 health is going to be much good especially when the encounter are random! that means waiting for 4-5 random losses almost before gaining enough health to last against a single attack. There are abilities that can save you but when you need to only take 1 hit to lose its kinda like... gah. tried a 2 health pet and got against an opponent with 6.. not sure how to balance things.

Edit: also just had a fight where I healed and I didnt gain health, the enemy gained the health and I took damage from their attack

I like the idea as Im a battler. Once I get the hang of it and understand what the heck is going on that is :)

I am losing every battle and have no idea why or what the other opponent is doing to me that is winning them each fight.

I dont see any place that my xp is improving or my ability to win is increasing?

I really like this concept so far :D

This is fun! Having trouble clicking on the play again button as it's too close to the top of the screen and I just end up back out in the News section. Very annoying~!

I am a battler so this is a welcome new thing :)

some kind of basic guide would be helpful, not sure if I can click one ability then click continue or if I am supposed to just click loads of abilities then click continue or what? losing constantly and cant work out why, not seeing any gain from having been in battles despite it saying that I am gaining xp

Im wondering if it is down to the minion having to be the toughest to start with and other than that Im wasting my time with my bing

Silly suggestion but is there anyway we can name our minions in the zoo? Upon removal they lose the name just like the stats?

I'm trying it with a Diabolical Puppy which only has 2 health, speed and defence. No matter what moves I try I always lose the battle. At the end of each battle I'm told that my minion has earned 2 XP but I can't see any way of using the XP to increase stats.

I used to play NeuroGalaxy and wouldn't have got interested if I'd lost 20 battles in a row and there was no way of using XP to improve a pet's battling chances.

I like it :) I now have a place to put those minions I can't let go of! hahaha. The battling is not very appealing but that's probably because I don't like them that much.

Just like TwistedMiss said, I would like to suggest though that the zoo be in the pets page. I was thinking of the zoo as a place only for minions though and that only the minions given to your pets can battle. Perhaps they can give support to your pets when they go to the coliseum or something...