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Mar 11, 2017 9 years ago
MidnaMoon
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Cyborg Mordyn

I was wondering if the admins could make a pet slot transfer system, I've seen tons of long time users who say they have too many pet slots and on the other hand newer users like me have to wait years to get a pet slot except for site events and stuff. Maybe a person gets 20csc per pet slot they give to a person so it's good for both sides. Or set up a pet slot shop for users? That doesn't increase in price every time you buy a pet slot? I dunno I just wish it was faster and easier to get pet slots...

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Mar 11, 2017 9 years ago Official
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Wuf

moving this out of the brainstorming subforum. brainstorming is for staff only to post threads in =)

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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.</p>
<p>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.

Mar 11, 2017 9 years ago
Frost
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No, sorry. :(

This feels like it would just create a golden opportunity for multi-accounting. If a user was careful and patient enough, they could easily abuse this feature by making like... 4 multis, waiting 2 years and netting themselves 4 free pet slots every year after that. Or taking advantage of the site-wide quest-a-thons with said multi-accounts. The same thing could be done by asking their friends to register, go inactive and transfer any extra pet slots to the user who referred them. Yes, it would probably be trackable and would be a freezable offense, but I'd still rather not open that can of worms.

I wouldn't mind more MC pet slots @ 200m a pop, but I kind of... don't want a feature that's going to make it super easy for people to abuse the system and net themselves endless and nearly free pet slots by breaking the rules.

Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
Sopheroo
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Hyacinthe

Staff said that it wouldn't be a thing.

A big flaw in this suggestion is that you want more pet slots. The thing, lots of older and richer users also want them, and they'll probably offer more than you can for the pet slots. So, you won't get more pet slots, but they will. It's going to end up in the rich getting more pets, and the average user...really losing out in the big scheme of things

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Or set up a pet slot shop for users? That doesn&;t increase in price every time you buy a pet slot? I dunno I just wish it was faster and easier to get pet slots...

Yeah, we have the cash shop for that, with a steady 2000 CSC per pet slot. It doesn't increase in price. I personally bought 4 slots with SP only, didn't spend a single real penny.

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I wouldn&;t mind more MC pet slots @ 200m a pop

Same. Long term goals are awesome. Money sinks are awesome. And, we're at a point where pricing them higher than 200M doesn't help that much, since a CSC slot is around that - 200M

Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
HADES
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Cosmic

Definitely not a fan of this idea. There are more ways now to get slots than there have been in years. Those who have been here a while put time/effort into getting their slots whether it be saving SP or putting earned money into CSC to getting them.

Even without buying them. you can still accumulate about 2 free ones a year from your loyalty tome which I think you get at year 2 and also the quest event they have made an annual thing (I think? Correct me if I am wrong.) and that is something I actually do not think older users had unless I am mistaken. Slots are easily enough obtained with time/effort being put into them I do not feel they need to make it any easier such as having things basically handed off freely such as this.

If anything, I feel slots are too easy to get now. I am definitely not complaining being a pet person and all.

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Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
Selene
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Besides the obvious abuses that could come up, usually when people say "they have to many pets" it means that they currently have too many pets at a given time and it's overwhelming to have so many pets at once time and try to work on them and still feel productive. That's usually when people weed out their pets, offer some up for adoption, and then try to focus on the pets they are keeping. It doesn't mean they won't get any more pets or find an eventual use (like helping friends with pet name clearings, zapping pets for fun and adopting them out, etc)

It doesn't take much to save up for pet slots anyways when you can buy so many of them with sP. When pet slots past 10 came out, you were originally paying like... What was it, $100 for two slots and $60 for one or something like that? It was a lot of money. Now they're way cheaper and there is so many more of them and more ways to get them it's ez pez.

Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
Historiography
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Nein

Keith has said in the past, when additional pet slots were first added with the plushies that pet slots were never supposed to be easily able to be obtained. The current system is a lot easier than it used to be and a lot cheaper and more plentiful in terms of slots that can be obtained and that's more than enough. Originally the only way to get pet slots in the first place when the plushies first came out was getting them via the cash shop which meant either saving for csc or buying csc with large amounts of sp.

I doubt there's ever going to be a point where pet slots are sold via something similar to a user shop because they're not meant to be easily obtainable in the first place. The increasing price is meant to be both an sp sink and also, in a fashion, a way to prevent users from obtaining a bunch of pet slots all at once. Yes, they'll get to the higher pet slot prices eventually, but they still have to be saved up for them, same for the csc slots that are higher in price. They have to be saved up for so there's not a bunch of people buying pet slots all at once because the graduating price of them prevents users from buying up a bunch all at the same time for some users.

That said, I agree with that I wouldn't mind more pet slots for 200 or more million sp a slot because they're good sp sinks.

In regards to the pet slot transfer system this could be abused A LOT. It's been an issue in the past when pet slots weren't as easily obtainable there there were users creating multi accounts because they wanted more pets and so they'd create a second account to store more pets. I could see a lot of multi account users using a pet slot transfer system just to transfer slots between accounts. It's an idea that's way too easy to be abused.

Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
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Elsy

I mostly agree with Sopheroo's idea. I'd honestly like the future pet slots to be less than 200 milllion but that's just me. Not to mention ways to cheapen sp to CSC rate from time to time.

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Mar 12, 2017 9 years ago
Sopheroo
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Hyacinthe

Right now, the most expensive MC slot is 200M, so I don't see them going back down. And, you hit 200M on your 10th one.

But yeah, I do want the max MC slot price to be capped, and not keep on going up by 20M for each slot.

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