I feel like the pet spotlight is kind of bland right now. You get a day of recognition and a trophy. What if you got an item as well? What if there were some pet related rewards that came with it? Maybe a random potion on a win, or some stat boosters. An account bound pet slot totem or re naming chip? (Those might be too much) Nothing wearable, something just related to the pet aspect of Subeta.

I would be interested in hearing some opinions/suggestion on this. :)

Eeeeh I'm going to have to say no. I think it's enough that the site announces and shows off your pet to everyone that wants to click it.

Hmm, well prizes would be nice and everything; everyone wants to get a little something for their work and dedication. But I think its unnecessary. Just getting a trophy and being recognized for a well deserved win should be good enough, right? I wouldn't ask for anything more than that. Plus if prizes were handed out, the pet spotlight would be far less fun and creative; people would literally pay to have everything done to their pet to make them perfect and guaranteed a win without actually doing anything themselves because "Lol I get super awesome items if I win." That doesn't encourage creativity; it just makes the pet spotlight even more bland (and truthfully lazier) because of greedy people and just another thing that people will fight over. :(

That's why it doesn't have to be a super awesome item. A potion is not super awesome and something you can get by paying 10m+ sP or getting lucky with a potion TS restock. Also why I suggested no wearable.

Don't see how giving out a random potion to the winner will make things less creative. And if the trophy is enough, then why do people adopt out their spotlight winning pets all the time? Just something like "Yay I won, get a potion to use/sell:)". Also this doesn't make sense, "perfect win without actually doing anything themselves" Have you seen the winners? All profile and stories are put together with lots of work. I just feel like something else besides a trophy would be nice. You do admit it's quite bland though? I think so. Maybe my suggestion is not the right thing, but I think the spotlight needs to be spiced up a bit.

Do you have any suggestions on how to spice up the spotlight or do you think it is fine now? I think it's quite boring actually. It used to be super exciting to win but now it's just a tad boring.

I guess what I'm trying to say if that before I was all "I need to win the spotlight!" and now when I think of doing up any more of my pets I'm very unmotivated because it's not really anything special anymore. I guess handing out a prize is probably not what it needs but some more thoughts on it would be nice.

I think the fact your pet gets featured in the news for a day and you get an achievement is pretty frickin' awesome.

The spotlight isn't so much a contest as just a place of recognition. Giving out items on top of that seems as if it would just make more people rush their pets so they can get free shit as soon as possible.

I remember on neopets mainly wanting to win the beauty contest, be featured on the gallery primarily because I was going to get an item. I didn't really care about the pet in general I just wanted the item/ neopoint rewards that went with it.

In that respect, I kind of have to agree with metal. I've had 4 pets win spotlight and it was never an issue of me getting an award for it other than the fact that yes, I wanted the achievement for having a certain number of spotlight wins. Otherwise, it was mainly just a way to force myself to do something with my pets other than just having them sit there pretty.

I don't really care either way if an item was received or not and for a lot of pet people it's simply the recognition by the site that matters.

most people work on their pets because it's something they love to do, not because they want to win the pet spotlight. of course it's nice to win and get recognition for the work you have done, but for a lot of us it's not the main reason why we do what we do. :) we love our pets, our characters, and to be able to share them with others is a bonus.

rewards are nice, but i don't think it's necessary to hand out a trophy as well as items when someone wins the pet spotlight. the spotlight is to showcase your pets, and that should be the most important thing. not a bunch of free items.

Just to have a spotlight trophy and getting your pet on the front page AND an achievement is already amazing enough. (in my opinion)

Okay then, seems like I am a minority on this subject so we'll leave it at that. :)

Don't you also get a title?

I don't personally work on pets to enter into the spotlight, so my thoughts are coming from an outsider's view:

I think it would be neat if there was some type of distinction for pets that won the spotlight that are on the pet leash. So if you were had a pet leash enabled for a pet that won a spotlight others would know (another way to kind of show it off).

Maybe a special border (a laurel?) around the pet, or a small trophy by it, etc. Nothing that would take up a bunch of room, of course.

nods yep, you also get a title with the 10x achievement :D

It is really nice to have the pet spotlight winning pet on the news page for the day (although of course if your pet is lucky enough to win on a day when there's lots of new items released / a plot going on, they get bumped down the front page quite quickly :P).

However, I think that it could be quite neat if there was another sort of recognition thing - I quite like Reya's idea for the leash (would give me a reason to bother leashing a pet too :P) :D

's idea of a stat booster (even if it was a stat increase that had to be used on a pet on the winning account, and couldn't be sold) sounds quite good too :D

I've ignored the achievement, as it ends at 10 - my "incentive" to finish more pets now, is purely for the news post and trophy

I was not aware there was an achievement title !

originally there wasn't (as there was only the one tier to start with) ;)

I think more prizes couldn't go wrong.

Maybe a free pet leash as a prize? Or maybe a 50% off discount for a pet leash on that pet?

I disagree with further prizes, only because Subeta's pet spotlight is less of a competition and more of a widespread recognition of everyone, which I think is really nice.

I do really like the idea of the pet leash distinction, though! I think if there are any other "rewards" added whatsoever, they should focus on the pets and really only be cosmetic.

I think it's fine and that further prizes aren't necessary - though some sort of recognition on the pet's leash would be pretty ace.

I do think that the criteria for what can win the spotlight should be tightened up, though I think most people would probably disagree with me. I just see a lot of mediocre content (imo) and I think that it's too easy to win. >.<

If potions/items/rewards were to be given out, I think the pet spotlight would do better as a 'once a week' kind of thing, instead of having winners everyday. I actually think having a winner everyday makes things kind of bland. If the pet spotlight was done once every other day that might spice things up a bit. I don't know really. o

Considering that you can win the spotlight by commissioning everything, no

I feel like extra prizes are needed for things that aren't sufficiently motivating. The kind of things like: dance 5000 times, turn in 5000 of these, delete 1000 of these, do this 1000 times, jump through this many loops for 24 hours straight.

People either work on their pets because they love working on their pets. Or people work on their pets because they want those achievements really badly. In both cases there is plenty of motivation and reward. Because you do not only get 24 hours spotlight, you get a trophy for the rest of the life of the pet saying 'hey, this little guy won'.

The only sort of reward I can see is a pet leash that you could activate. It's not a giant reward, but I can see it being useful.

Personally I don't really like or participate in the spotlight because it's not really something aiming to showcase hard work and creativity in regards to characters-- it's something aiming to showcase pretty artwork and coding, with some text. All of which can be easily commissioned and therefor potentially only showcasing pretty things purchased that people want to show off, which seems to be the case 90% of the time.

So I really don't like the idea of being punished (ie: having to partake in the profile spotlight just for extra pet slots) if I don't decide to win the spotlight. It really doesn't require much to win, other than waiting and making sure your profile is nice and clean on all browsers.

I really feel like a trophy, an achievement, and your pet in the news is more than enough reward for something that can essentially be purchased.