So, I was just thinking while fixing up some of my pets and their pages, that it might be a handy feature if we could move treasure chest slots from one pet to another.

If this would need to be something we'd have to pay for, I'm okay with that. But like, let's say, if you adopted a pet and it had 100 TC slots, but you didn't need/want that many slots for that pet, but could use those slots on another pet, it would be handy to be able to take however many (or even all) the slots from the adopted pet and apply them to another. Perhaps like through a drop down feature that allows you to 'move slots' and then choose another pet to move it to. (So you don't have to move only to one pet, but can move to whatever one you choose per slot).

I don't think this would negate needing to buy MKBs or anything- just would make it easier to move some slots over to other pets that will actually USE them while one pet won't at all.

Not all my pets need that many TC slots, so for a (minimal) fee, I think it would be a good idea to allow us to move TC slots and assign them to whatever other pet(s) we want.

Whattya think?

I don't think that this needs to happen. MKBs are one of the site's year-round sP sinks and I have no problem have extra TC slots on a pet because I never know when I might decide to change the pet concept or add to their TC... Even if they just sit there going to rot... It's whatever to me as they are fairly cheap in the scheme of things. Like... The cost the actual TC items... My bank account screams when I look at my Wishlist... Srsly.

On a somewhat related note, I would love to see the MKB phased out and an option added to the treasure chest page to buy them directly for like... 75,000 sP per slot or something... That way, no waiting... (Yes, yes... I know that reselling MKBs is how some people make some extra sP... I've done it myself. I still want this change.)

if ever something like this were put into place, it would need to be a 1:1 switch between pets. swap one pet's 40 slots for a different pet's 75 slots. i could see something like that being handy for if you were switching identities between pets (since we can do name swaps now, after all). if it were just a simple "move slots from one pet to another," i feel like there's too much room for exploitation, ie people camping in the pound to strip slots off abandoned pets.

that said i'm iffy on whether or not this really needs to be put into place. what i'd really like to see if nothing else is 's suggestion of a direct purchase option for a flat rate, if for no other reason than i'd really really like to get rid of the timer associated with expanding TCs

The one reason I thought of it in the first place is because I was given this one pet who had 180 slots in their TC. I recently changed the pets name, specie and color and decided I don't need that many slots for them, but it seems like a waste to have had all that time and money spent to get slots that will never be used, when I could easily put them onto other pets that I actually want to move them to. Like I said, I think a fee would need to be imposed, so it's not something so easily done- like you said, people waiting to 'strip' TC slots off of pound pets. If it were done with CSC pricing, that might deter people from doing it, because if it cost like 250 csc to move TC slots (not sure how many for what price honestly)- then people would be less likely to spend real money so quickly for that, I think anyways. Most people are wiser with their money for csc so they don't spend it willy nilly like that. I don't like having to wait either to get them, but at least they're not too terribly more expensive in user shops. It can drain your sP quickly however, esp when there is no set number of slots, being as it can grow from 1-3 slots every turn. I'd prefer it be the ability to buy slots for sure rather than it being random...

Yeah, I don't mind if there was a sort of swapping in place. I could do that several times until I got the numbers I wanted to whatever pet I wanted to move them to. Obv was just an idea, like I said above, considering I will have wasted TC slots for other pets that could go to use on a current pet. I don't know.... it just seems appealing to me so TC slots don't go to waste.

Make it impossible to swap a pet's slots below a certain number. Like, more than default. If the pet has less than 5 slots, make it impossible to make them farmable? 10?

I used to have a pet with a massive treasure chest and now, I have a pet with 3000+ useless TC slots. I would love to be able to move some of them around?

I like the suggestion of saying there is a point where you can't grab TC slots off a pet if they're below a certain number. I'd say probably more like 10 would be good. Usually pets with a high TC number are adopted out by people in the forums and not dumped in the pound. One pet I picked up had over 80 pet slots, but I got him from someone adopting him out, I didn't find him in the pound. In fact, it's rare to find one in teh adoption center that has a very high TC # anyways.

You could also put a code in there to say you have to have the pet in your account for a certain amount of time before you can move TC slots. Like, 6 months or something. It's unlikely someone will take up a pet slot for that amount of time to harvest TC slots when they could potentially buy that amount of slots in the same amount of time (or more depending on how diligent they are).

And exactly my point! Sometimes ideas change with pets for whatever reason, and having TC slots of that amount (or any large amount) for one pet that won't be used is pointless and seems a total waste. Might as well allow us to rearrange them if we want.

If there was some good way to control it, make sure it wasn't easily abused, I wouldn't mind. I'd probably even use it myself if the pets I wanted to use met the requirements.

On the topic of requirements, I certainly agree with there being a minimum amount of TC slots set for pets so that you can't "farm" them until they are down to 0 for example. I would say you shouldn't be able reduce them to any less than 30 slots, actually, to allow for redistribution of moderately large to overly huge TCs only. I would also say that the amount of time you have owned the pet you want to reduce the TC slots on should be about 3 months minimum... (That's a while to hold onto a pet you don't want.) Also, more importantly, I think the charge should scale, not upwards with the size of the TC but downwards, with the large TCs being the cheapest to grab slots from. That is, with the cost starting out pretty expensive but maybe the flat rate bottoming out around 200+ with a doable sum... Most pet owners will quicker switch the name at that point than adopt it out, so it's more reasonable to believe that this is a well-loved pet that may have had a change in concept.

Also, I do believe most users would probably not abuse this feature per say, but there will always be a few who will. The same can be said for every other "there-for-your-convenience" feature we have on here though. And that's what this is... It's a want not a must, which is fine and certainly shouldn't eliminate it from being put in place... But seeing as how it is not a necessity and would only really benefit a small section of pet owners (with pets who meet the requirements), the complicated coding it would take may make this something that is not really viable for the staff right now.

I've had the same problem as OP. Having just re-done one of my pet characters, I figured he doesn't need nearly as many TC spaces as before. When I get to make my new pet I'd love to give him the extra TC spaces from my older pet... I don't really see what the problem is, I already paid to get these TC spaces, and now I'm wanting to pay to give them to another pet of mine so they're not wasted. But also all the time I get random events that so-and-so's tc has been increased 1 slot. On pets that I don't need anymore space for so it's wasted. I would pay to give it to my pet who needs them.

I totally understand about priority. Not saying as though this would need to be done asap or anything. Honestly, it's hard to say how many users this might benefit. I don't know if it's a small group or if a larger group would be glad to see something like this put into options. I think for certain it would need to have restrictions put into place to avoid abuse as much as possible, but like you said, it's inevitable. I know I wouldn't hold onto a pet for several months just to get a few extra TC slots when I can buy several MKBs in that time and get probably more than I'd harvest off another pet. So yeah, totally understand. =)

Same. I would pay for it too, and I'm betting others would as well, even if it's not a must have, it's still I think would be a nice thing to have. I know there are a lot of people that would prefer a few things added to the TC options, like check boxes to make removal easier and perhaps an easier way to rearrange them too. But yeah, guess we'll see if any admins will notice this suggestion. xD;

As long as there's a way to prevent abuse. As in, someone finds a pet(s) in the pound with 100 or so slots and just decides to adopt it and move the slots to the pet they want the slots on and then abandon the first one again and so on and so forth, I can support this.

I think if this were put into place it would have to be at least 150k for 3 slots like a good MKB and you cannot make the pet go below lets say 25 or so. To prevent the farming thing. I don't think it should be a cheap thing. I have pets with a lot of spaces that aren't needed and while I would love to get them to pets that would use them, I am just as fine just getting more MKBs.

Cause to be honest...you used them at one point for the most part...or if you adopted, someone used those spots at some time.

I just had an idea for preventing pound surfing for slots.

1. Minimum number of slots - I'll use 10 as an example. While 25 is a nice number, it feels too high compared to the average number of slots a pet has

2. Cooldown, just like battle pets being transferred cannot be used for a month, you cannot move the slots from a pet you adopted for 30 days.

The other suggestion I have is to make pet slots account bound, and not pet-bound.

Suppose someone has 3 pets, one with 26 slots, one with 14 slots and one with 3 slots. All pets currently would keep their treasure slots, but it could be modified in a "slot bank"

So it would be

Pet A : 16/16 customisable slots used (take 1)

Pet B : 4/4 customisable slots used (take 1)

Pet C : 0/0 customisable slots used

You have 20 customisable slots you can move as you wish, but you cannot touch the other 10 default slots, under any circumstance.

i made a suggestion for this ages ago and i am still 100% on board nothing else to add, i just... support ya

This would definitely be nice! :3 I know I had a pet with (to me) a lot of TC slots and I ended up adopting them out. Sucks to have adopted out so many slots when they could have been used elsewhere. I agree about preventing abuse and such though. If there's a way to avoid those issues, I'd love to see this happen. :3