I like this idea tbh, it needs some more thinking and more rules, but the general idea is very nice. it can also open the chance to "gift a pet slot to a user" which also can be nice..
AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T BREAK MY PRECIOUS RAINBOWS
i love my rainbows
predatory eyes towards all the potential pet givers, just kidding...
I will never say no to something like this, but I'm not sure if there are enough pet givers to make it worth implementing.

I'm sure they could code it so you select how many pets you want to display up to a certain number.
I think with GA's just taking the hit that they did in getting rid of pet slots as a reason to purchase, that this would be a bad idea. If you can sell yours, then that would be absolutely cheaper than the other person buying another one, to get one. However, to even push that further, I'd absolutely back the idea mentioned here of just lifting the limit all together. I mean, they've already given the option of buying slots with sP and the bitch factor about it seemed negligible (I was expecting the "I bought this many with this much money and if I would have waiting I could have gotten them with sP" speech, but it wasn't there). I'm definitely of the frame of mind that if someone wants 20 thousand pets they should just have it if it doesn't cause lag on the site. Just more money going in... maybe that could afford a nice programmer to speed things along?.......
As far as the lists, could it be possible to group them like you can do with friends? Maybe have a "favorite" group? Just those you're working currently on. I mean, A. That could make it more user friendly if it needed to be and B. If you are working on -all- your pets and you choose to have 500 for instance, well.. that's the price you pay.
From the idea I had, the giver gets zero compensation. They're giving it away.
As for the buyer, the price is high. I suggested 100M because it's the price for the highest slot in the MC. I'm not fond of it being CSC because well, someone already paid in CSC for that slot.
But yes. Please kill the friggin pet slot limit. I mean, I'm okay with a limited number of MC or special slots being given away a year.
So not okay with the cap on CSC slots, though
That's the point I'm making . I'm looking at it from Subeta's standpoint, from a CSC making standpoint because... I'm a weird customer, leave me alone. User A, Sue buys 1 slot but decides she doesn't want it, currently, tough, you keep it. User B, Joe comes along and wants one and he has to pay one. Subeta made CSC from the purchase of 2 slots. The new way, even yours, user 1 won't get compensated, yes, but Subeta made only money from 1 purchase of slots, not two. Instead, just sP was taken out of the system. I'm all for sP sinks but not at the cost of Subeta losing money. Like I said, I'm already a bit concerned about what the effect will be on recent changes of GA's being purchased. Keith is the only one that knows the numbers, however, so it might be something that he doesn't think will affect things much but from my standpoint, it sounds like half the money being made from slots. Which is again, why I like the limit of lifting the limit all together (completely agree about it being CSC slots only), there are a lot of people I know that would go slot crazy if they were able to. That also means more pets going in the pool for spotlights, which apparently was an issue lately.
This is a nice idea in theory, but I can see it leading to a hike in multi accounts being made or at the very least, some users getting everyone they know to sign up for no other reason than that (possibly even bribing them with another site's currency/rl money, etc). It seems like it could become very unbalanced really quickly. I would also hate to see people being befriended and used just for pet slots. Some users are already guilty of doing this to people who create and adopt out new pets frequently, just because they think it will get them first dibs.
I feel like if staff was okay with some users having 150 pets while everyone else is stuck in the 50s or lower, they would have made it so we could sell or trade the Matryoshka Dolls. This would pretty much turn obtaining pet slots into a popularity contest. No thanks. : /
Not reading this whole thread EVEN THOUGH MY BROKE ASS SUPPORTS IT because I made a similar suggestion once upon a time and people were like lol no
bird and bear and hare and fish give my love her fondest wish
Sadly, Subeta doesn't want to remove the limit. If they did indeed remove the limit, I agree that it would be bad for CSC sales, but right now, they insist the limit is totally fine uwu
SUBETA Y U NO WANT MONEY?
(better yet, just let Soph buy moar slots directly with ca$h)
They prefer my tears to my money apparently
bottles your tears poors in Pensieve watches everything
I'm sorry for your struggles pats
We are not going to give the ability to gift pet slots that users no longer want. It's a feature that could easily be abused, or cause a lot of negative feelings among people that want more pet slots - there will be fighting and resentment. And the popularity contest that mentioned. For a feature that we provide, we want it to be as fair as possible in that each user has the same pet slot expanding opportunities.
We cap pet slots and only release a few at a time for a reason - some monetary, but some purely because we enjoy the user response to new slots. It's always a 'big thing' to release them, and brings a lot of excitement to the site that enthuses the whole team alike.
I'm so glad to read that there are no plans to let people gift away pet slots! When I read this I immedietaly thought of popularity contests, jealousy and fighting and this is nothing I want as much as I love getting new slots. Tbh I also love that there is a cap, waiting and hoping for more slots is both painful and exciting and imo that's the fun behind it. So yeah, I hope everything stays as it is...and that we can purchase more slots some time later, just as Keith hinted afaik.
DID YOU JUST ADMIT TO EVERYONE YOU ENJOY OUR TEARS?
Seriously, while I can understand than seeing our reaction at more slots is exciting, I think that the recent new ways of releasing slots and the reactions was really cool and unique, and that was something. I see something like CSC slots as being more of a casual buying things, but the opportunity to get one for free/SP, that should be the exciting thing.
Like, buying a CSC slot should be expensive, but convenient. Right now, it's just expensive. I'd be okay with paying 2000 CSC a pop, or even more to bypass the cap, I paid more for slots in the past. What I hate is that friggin Nightmare Manchu cockblock. I know you drew that Manchu, and I have no hard feelings for it, but it's my least liked pet on the site only because it's the ultimate cockblock
Special/MC/Loyalty Slots are way less expensive, but there should be a drawback to them. Either it's time related, you have to do something for it, or you can only get one a year. That's the kind of things I'd like myself to get excited over.
THE 500 000 QUESTS CHALLENGE AND THE MC SLOTS WERE EXCITING and I'm still scrambling for money to get my last two MC slots. While getting five more CSC slots is cool, it's not something that's as exciting. I'm gladly going to pay the price, because Subeta is important to me, but I wouldn't say it's long-term excitement like the MC slots and 500 000 challenge were.