I really like the fact that the zapper has been overhauled and I'm also loving that there's a guaranteed way to get a random experiment, even if you have to pay 400k per zap for it. Great idea for an sP sink!

But, there are two things that bother me about the revamp since they're more or less downgrades.

• Your active pet is no longer automatically the first one on the zapping list. Please fix this and make it like it was pre-revamp - your active pet was the first on the dropdown list, but all your other pets were there as well. As someone who owns 47 pets, I do not like playing hide and seek on the dropdown list with the pet I want to zap, so the active pet being the first on the list was REALLY handy.

• After zapping, you are still shown the default "pick a pet to zap" screen instead of being shown the timer. Please bring the timer back. This way it looks like you can zap again straight away, which is a little bit annoying.

A few more tweaks that were mentioned by other users:

• Move the warning about the zapper destroying items in your inventory and the pet's minion to the very top of the page. Right now, it's near the message with the guaranteed experiment zap.

• A clarification/disclaimer on the guaranteed zap option. Preferably on the zapper page. It's not clear whether this instantly gives you a random experiment when you zap, or whether there's still a chance for the zapper misfiring and destroying inventory items and minions even with this option, which can create some confusion.

Bugs

• If you do not have enough tokens on hand, but try to use the guaranteed experiment zap option, the zapper will take 400k from your on-hand sP and then give you a message about not having enough tokens.

I miss the old zapper because there was a possibility of the pet changing colour while keeping the same species, and that was kinda useful. If they didn't already, they should add that outcome to the new zapper.

I agree with both points in the OP. The Revamp is good but adding these things back to the zapper would make it even better.

I think that's still possible? I haven't used the new zapper long enough to find out for sure, but I'm pretty sure it's still possible for a pet to get zapped into a different colour without changing the species. Wouldn't really make sense to get rid of that option, if you ask me, but then again, stranger things have happened on Subeta. ;P

I hope you're right, but they could have forgot that. Like the two points you mentioned, they don't seem to be on purpose, but more of a slip when coding the zapper.

I have a pet I'm currently zapping and I'll keep lurking the zapper topics in the Pets and B&C forums. If the colour change isn't an option in the new zapper, I'd like to see it added back too and I'll definitely add it to the OP. c:

I love the fact that I can pay for a guaranteed experiment now-- it's like an affordable Experimental Dew with forced self-control xD!

However I most definitely agrew with both points in the OP, ESPECIALLY the timer being on the front page-- it's kinda annoying to go through the motions just to see how long you've got to wait.

I also would like to see the page kinda re-arranged or reworded. Currently, with the 'warning the zapper could misfire at your inventory or minion' text being underneath the 'hey why not pay 400k for a guaranteed experiment?' I'm honestly not 100% sure if it is 100% or not? Like, really I cleared out my inventory and did a minion check inb4 zapping because I'd be pissed if I paid 400k and got something ruined because I honestly don't know?

I'd prefer to see either the warning text moved above the guaranteed zap, or a disclaimer added to the guaranteed zap saying that this will NOT misfire at anything. I'd assume it wouldn't, otherwise why am I paying 400k, but nothing good comes from assuming...

It also seem to be glitchy, since it took 400K from me when I didn't have enough tokens, so make sure you have enough tokens on hand before zapping.

Yeah, I agree. Moving the warning to the very top of the page would be better. I'm pretty sure that the 400k zap is definitely a guaranteed thing, but getting a clarification from a staff member, or even a little disclaimer on the page would be nice!

Aw, crap, that sucks. :/ I'll definitely add that to the OP. [edit] Just to clarify, you tried to use the guaranteed experiment zap, but didn't have enough tokens and it ate your sP after giving you an error message about you not having enough tokens?

I thought I could zap again right off, and as one who rarely if ever uses the zapper, I can understand easily how it could be extremely confusing.

Exactly :)

Thanks, added it to the OP!

opened a ticket, i'm waiting on the programmers.

AT LEAST IT'S NOT AS BAD AS THE ONE TIME I LOST 8000 CSC.

I'll stay optimistic :)

I'm wondering as well if it's really 100% experiment or still a chance of having an inventory item ruined.

Other than that: I'm ridiculously excited about an experiment only zapper and I can see myself sinking millions in this.

I've used the experiment-only setting 4 times now, and I got an experiment every time. If I had to hazard a guess, I do think it's strictly experiments and no risks. My luck generally isn't good enough 4 zaps in a row otherwise

Glad to see you on top of this !

Glad to see these changes too, and the confirmation of the guaranteed experiments with no inventory side effects! Great news because there are many zappings in my future (bwaha) and I'd rather not spend the time or sP if my inventory is still fair game.

Thank you for making these changes! Definitely needed and appreciated.

Thank you for the tweaks and for clearing things up!

Just to ask one more thing that was curious about - the zapper can still change a pet's colour without changing the species, right?