Could we get an exclusive minion zapper later, when more experiment minions are added? Imagine the possibilities... In the near future, the minion zoo will probably be released, so the minion zapper could turn your minion into another species (10% chance), turn into an experiment minion (10% chance), turn your minion into slimes (10% chance), give your main minion (maybe we could have an "active minion" option) on the zoo random (between 15 and 50) EXP (40% chance), decrease your main minion random (up to 15) EXP (20% chance) and nothing (10% chance). Additional ideas are very welcome (:

I would use this, especially if it didn't destroy anything in my inventory. PROTECTING MY ITEMS = A FANTASTIC SINK.

However I am iffy on turning minions into another minion species that isn't zapper related because that's kinda a can of worms (some minions are ridic expensive and/or take a lot of effort to earn/win). I'm not sure how experience would work unless this was related to the zapper zoo and not a pet's minion. However, if it's minion zoo related that's also fine since if I zap a minion and it turns into one I want to attach to a pet I can just take it out |D

THE TERRACOONTHING COULD TOTALLY DO THAT? PLEASE GIVE ROCKET A HOME AND THING TO DO.

When I read that news post last night about experiment zapper minions, I totally thought this suggestion is what it was. Was pretty disappointed to see that it wasn't an actual minion zapper, just some new minions to get from the regular zapper.

So yeah I can get behind this.

maybe the 10% chance could be splited into: 50% restockable up to r80, 20% up to r99, 10% r150-160-175-195, 15% r105, 10% r101 and 5% collection items... so we could obtain those ultra rare collection minions, but only with a lot of luck...

[edit] 5% maybe sound like a lot of chance, but you need to take a 2-stage luck: 10% for the species change and then 5% for collection item. (0.1 x 0.05 = 0.005, what's actually 0,5%...)

That would be like Neopets' petpet ray. I'm not sure I'm at ease with features that are close to Neopets'

We got backlash for something as generic as the cherry color, because it had a green/red palette and was fruit themed. This is even more specific and I'm all "Nah"

Terracoons are scammers and rude pets that sell you fake grapes and happy box for unusually high prices, turn your pet into Swampies and other dubious things. They are like their real life raccoons cousins who steal from your garbage and trick you into a awful capitalist system with awfully high mortgages.

Yes, kinda... But since experiment minions weren't a thing until now, I feel like we need a zapper only for that, since the possibilities are awesome. The name is Ultimate Pet Zapper, not Ultimate Pet/Minion zapper. And it also decreases the chance of getting a pet color/species change, an experiment chance and even Stats increases/decreases... With the release of the Zoo, it'd be nice if we could get EXP with zapper as well, because battling (at least the way it is now) is really boring and time taking. It only gives 9~15 EXP and it takes tons of fights to level up beyond level 9 or 10...

We have had zapper minions since before I jointed, actually!

and the slimes.

But just because it would be cool doesn't make it a good idea. The last thing I want is for people saying that we're ripping off Neopets again and in this case, it's really really glaring. It's just not worth the backlash.

I support this because I also thought when the news said "New Pet Zapper Minions" it meant we had an actual zapper to change a minion's species and things and I'd like to see this.

No matter what's done anyone can say "stole such and such from -insert any pet site here-". This can happen with any pet site, not just Subeta. There's going to be people that love things and people that don't like them. Let the haters hate. Subeta shouldn't be afraid to do things just because "some other pet site" did it first. That's ridiculous. Similar ideas doesn't mean they stole it. I like to see Subeta's twist on things.

And I'd personally like Subeta to have more original material than trying to find its own spin on something competition already did.

Which is why I really don't like minion battling.

Hell, just revamping the Decanter to affect minions (rather than being the....luck-based horror it currently is) would be more interesting than LOL ANOTHER ZAPPER.

I actually kind of like the idea of the Decanter doing this for some reason lol. I just like the whole idea of something happening to minions apart from just they get trapped in bubbles sometimes and soon you can battle with them? I still don't fully understand the point of letting them battle, but that's another can of worms.

The whole zapper thing can get stale after a while though and I do think Subeta needs things that are unique to it, so I can see where you're coming from.

As someone who is zapping at the moment solely for some of those new experiment minions I'd love something like this/something that addresses this, be it a minion zapper or some other feature that can serve the same purpose.

I think it would be kinda cool if you could pay a little extra fee to the same zapper while zapping your pet and have a slight percentage of a chance that your minion may also change at the same time. Nothing HUGE, you don't want the minions to devalue in a heartbeat. But say you pay him an extra 10-20-30 tokens or 50-100k for say a 10-15% chance that your minion can be effected by the zapper as well.

Just an idea.

... does Neopets actually have a minionpetpet zapper? It's been a long time since I was there, and I do remember the petpet paintbrushes (and the petpetpet's for the petpets because I heard you like pets so I gave the pet of your pet a pet of it's own to pet) and I remember thinking... this has gone too far.

I'm typically against the idea of "just because the Simpsons did it" being a valid reason not to do anything, since sometimes hey.. they do have cool ideas too, but a zapper in general is basically something they coined and if they coined the petpet zapper too then... yeah. We can do better, or at least we can make it make sense.

Like,

Rocket (idk what that Terracoon's name is, but I'm calling it Rocket until proven otherwise) either salvaged his/her/their zapper and has hidden it in a back alley (Coon's are trifty y'know? Just look at the Hustler) and reformatted it to work just on minions (yeah it's still a minion zapper, but to be fair, Euclid destroyed the other one soo) so every so many hours (idk, 4? 6?) you can pay a hefty fee (idk, 100k?) and select a minion from your inventory to zap and stuff?

... such a system (changed to once per day, obv) could be used for Experiment Lifelike Dolls, too. It seems like such a sneaky Terracoon thing to do.. fabricate experiment lifelike dolls after Euclid's 'creations' just to sell them in his back alley without giving him a dime? No wonder he blew up the other zapper...

Yes, it has. You can't unattach the petpet or it comes back to the species/color it was before zapping it. And I really like the lifelike ray thing xD

I wouldn't mind it if they only gave zapper specific minions. Nothing that was already available (except of course the current zapper minions). I like the fact that we can remove these unlike on neo. That always peeved me off because over there, there are gallery worthy petpets but I cannot remove them. x.x

This is very much like the neopets zapper that already exists. The thing is, this I can't see as useful as we don't potion our minions here, which is what the zapper is usually for, and we already have a ton of minions that are already super cheap. I think this would help to just put more common, cheap minions into the already excessive system.

No support