I am pretty much the farthest thing from a minion collector, but I've still managed to end up with a couple minions from bhh, collections, etc. And anyway, if collection minions are going to be the strongest, that's nothing compared to weapon prices. Even the mediocre weapons in the cash shop cost four times as much as a collection.

Once this is all finished, maybe it can be set up so we attach minions to our pets through the zoo? That way we can fight with them and have them attached.

I don't know if this would be to difficult, but I think it would be fun to see a zoo done like the Riverside Nature Hike. Where you could walk through the zoo and see the various minions you have, and there would be a sign in front you could click on to see it's stats. Then click on the minion if you want to battle with it or take it out.

I'm with over 600 minions in my collection, and it takes some time to load. Here are some suggestions to make pages easier to load:

1. An "armory page", where you select up to 10 minions as your main battlers. Like the armory at the coliseum, you can remove (move back to the regular zoo) any minion at any time. While in the armory page, you have to click in the minion image to battle (same way we have right now).

2. A HTML/PHP page (maybe even as the main look of the zoo, with pages like the collections to make pages easier to load), so SubetaLodge can create a minion collection (I tried to create a custom collection, but it's impossible to add minions massively, since the page uses another script that I don't know - maybe Java?).

3. Alphabetical minion item item order, later alphabetical minion custom name order, EXP order like we have right now... More than one way to sort this collection would be awesome. Maybe even sorting by type? (dogs, cats, fishes, birds, inanimated, food-like...)

It is rather annoying that the minions switch order every time the page reloads.

FINALLY a place for minions! I've been waiting for this for 9 years! xD I have SO MANY that need to be in this zoo. The battling is cool too!

I LOVE the idea of being able to separate your main battlers from the main zoo. That is FANTASTIC!!!!!!

I like the info in the pop up boxes for the abilities when we are battling but they keep getting in the way of clicking the abilities. Maybe if each ability had a drop down menu to click rather than a hover.

Aw I think all minions should be treated the same. The cheap ones cannot help they are cheap. I disagree that this is anything like cock fighting. I care about my pets and my minions. I never let them go hungry or not be happy. I keep them in the resort so I know they will be happy and full. Also I like that you cannot fight in the battle if your pets are neglected. I never would put a real animal in a deliberate fight. It is like when we harvested each other's body parts last year. That was fun because it was fictional. I am a huge fan of Hannibal Lecter on movies, books and the TV show, but I would never admire a real cannibal. My whole point is this is like a fictional thing, because our babies on here really feel no pain. :D I do understand if it puts negative thoughts and painful feelings on anyone to do any battling then do not participate.

I added a few minions from my account, like a pair of Aurora Foxes (to see if multiples would go in or not) and a Laskie. None of the manually added minions are showing up in my collection or in my inventory now.

Correction: Now that I post this, they are showing up, and I do have both Aurora Foxes in my collection.

This is really awesome. It will be great to have somewhere to put my minion collection. Has there been any mention of if this is going to be it? or is this just the first steps of it.

Having gone through a few battles I never even noticed that my minion had leveled up they just suddenly had more HP. So a notice of some sort that they had would be awesome. Also on the abilities page, it didn't give descriptions of all the abilities when I hovered my mouse over them, only some.

I really like the idea of having a place to put the minions I've been hoarding away for years and years, and it's nice that there's finally a purpose for them! I stuck a couple minions in my zoo and I've been battling for a while and so far, here are my suggestions:

1. Give some some sort of way to organize the minions- right now it seems sort of random to bunch them all together. I'm sure there a tons of people who would love to either A) create their own categories or B) use predetermined categories set up by the staff. Even separating minions out based on rarity numbers would be a huge help!

2. Possibly set it up so the computer-generated minions you face are more "matched" to the minion you are using to battle? Having 5 HP against 25 HP seems a little unbalanced.

3. Give XP based on the amount of HP (or base stats) the opposing minion starts with. It makes more sense that a tougher opponent gives a bigger prize, just like with pet battling. Overall, it's an awesome start though!

Off to a good/interesting start. :D

Biggest thing to me is organizing. There is going to have to be a way to organize the zoo, especially if people are going to get into the battling end of the spectrum. You don't want to have to wade through pages of minions to find your battle favorites every time you visit your zoo... I don't know if you could have a "party" of 10 or so pets that could somehow be kept separated from the rest of your zoo (as your main battle pets) or if there's some way to create categories... Either user made (like wardrobe drawers or shop categories) or some pre-decided staff options.

And it would be nice for the people who DON'T care so much about battling to be able to organize pets. I don't know if pets by type would be appealing (bird, cat, dog, inanimate, etc.) but at least an alphabetical organization would be helpful. (Or some combination of both.)

Will eventually need some kind of search option, too, so you could type in "Baby Phoenix" and be taken to that minion.

Edit: Also, I'm big on item descriptions. It'd be nice if once the minions were in the zoo if we hovered over them their description would pop up if it's not too much trouble or too distracting... It'd make it easier to use the zoo as storage but also find suitable attached minions for pets as needed. :D

I'm sure a lot of work went into this, and I can appreciate that.

That being said the feature is boring. Its plain and dull to look at. It honestly just feels like an attempt at copying flight risings battling system, on a much smaller scale.

Thanks! Mana is usually 'magic' in video games. I'm guessing that you will need to use it to power some {or all} of your attacks once they add that into the game play.

Or like Neopets petpet battling system

Neopets is pretty dead in the water, so not sure that'd be a great point of reference. :P

Which doesn't really help the feature itself. It is pretty boring. Just random clicking with little interaction and very little life. My little Snowflaik bulldozed pretty much all competition - but even if he hadn't, I don't see how this is going to become dynamic and compelling. People seem more invested in having somewhere to show off their minions to be honest.

Never played it.

So my straight-up honest opinion on this: I think it was a waste of resources. It's cute and all, but there are many things on site that need a lot of work (Wardrobe is still in beta. We have a list of improvements we'd like to see on site in the suggestion forum. I really do not think we needed a new feature at all). It's fairly boring. It's a lot of click.click.click. It's easy to figure out a system to win. I've already found one that works flawlessly with the snake-like minions. On top of that, we already have a battling system. If anything, I would have much rather liked to see that revamped/improved than a new, mediocre one put out.

In terms of the actual system: -The hovers for the attack descriptions stay up too long and get in the way when I'm trying to make another attack. -I have no idea what the green bar is under our health bars. There is no explanation about it. It just goes up as I make more attacks. -I'd like to see how experience is awarded. -So I have these ability points to spend but none of the abilities require points in order to learn, so that doesn't make sense.

All in all, I really wish this wasn't a thing and that you would've taken the time/effort/resources and put them towards things on site that already exist and need work.

[edit] I believe the way the minions are organized is by level or most advanced or whatever you want to call it. So the more powerful minions are first.

I'd rather have a cute little place to show off my minions than some knock off of other ideas like flightrising or neopets. It's a point that still stands.

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My suggestion isn't very clear- I'm talking more about being able to put them in different categories/folders (like we can with wish lists). With the potential of having hundreds (or even a couple thousand) minions on a single page, people with slower internet are going to run into issues with trying to load the main page.