I love feeding my pet and this is a bit of an odd idea but I wish we could feed our avatar the same way we do as pets, same with books. (Its probably because I used to play Millsbury as a kid and instead of feeding pets you fed the character)

Also a food bar and health bar on the dashboard underneath your active pet could be fun? (Again I play rpgs a lot and I love the aesthetic of those bars)

Neither of these are important or anything, just a random tiny idea that I thought would be cool.

Ah... I'm not feeling this. It's a cute enough idea, but I don't really see this working out.

For a brand new petsite - sure! Or for a petsite that plans to add the HA mechanic, and wants to add a "survival" aspect to its plate. But Subeta is 13 years old and going, and I feel that such a mechanic wouldn't be well received. Especially if there were consequences for not feeding your pixel doll. You really don't want restrict people's access to the wardrobe, or mess with their HA in any way. Trust me on this. And if there are no restrictions or consequences for starving your pixel doll, it would feel like a useless, empty mechanic that's there just to take space up and add the illusion of depth and immersion.

I... don't really want to play Subeta's equivalent of The Sims during my online time. :/

If it's just the aesthetic you're after, a wearable HUD of sorts, like a tribute to some survival videogames (Subnautica, Don't Starve, Ark, etc.) would be pretty sweet! But a completely new and more or less empty mechanic...? No, sorry.

Also, if you just want hp/mana bars purely for the aesthetic, we already have those! :D

Ah fair enough! Yeah I've been on this site for years now so it would be quite a big/random thing to implement. Just wishful thinking from when I used to play Millsbury when I was little. (Also totally gonna get those items!!)

In terms of the food/health bar I was actually thinking that would be for your current active pet - so it would be like the tier bar but instead shows you out of ten how hungry your pet is etc so on your dashboard you could see if you needed to heal your pet after a battle or if you'd already fed the pet to full so had to wait a bit before you could use a new food item.

A way to keep tabs of your active pet's hunger would be kinda neat! I checked the widgets and, surprisingly, neither the battle widget, or the active pet widget have hunger/happiness listed. And we're supposedly moving away from widgets with the new layout, so I don't really see either of those getting updated. ._.

But then again the pets.php page loads much faster than it used to. It would definitely be handy if you're going for gourmand. And even with gourmand, you more or less only need to feed your pet once every 24 hours or so.

It seems kind of useful to me for people who want to feed their gourmand pet as often as they can, though!

I disagree with feeding HAs. But I wouldn't mind food/happiness bars instead of the x/10 counters we have on the pets page (but I'd want the numbers to still be clearly displayed because trying to guess if a bar is at 6 or 7 could be a giant pain in the ass)

No Support, because this was already decided by staff and users.

They used to have bars. It just didn't fit with the new layout and dropdown. I think users liked this more compact format enough that we didn't mind the loss of the bars, which were always graphincally off since food isn't continuous. I also think automatically calculating this all out each and every time was consuming of site resources instead of only showing it if you ask for it like it does now.

Feeding MY avatar? I would be sitting as a beggar in Centropolis in no time X'D

As for the bars on the pets.php page - I like that staff cleaned the page up again to make it less laggy etc I really don't want the old clutter back, sorry.

Ah fair enough everyone, I took a looong break from subeta so I must have missed (or just don't remember) there being a foodbar widget. Though I'm surprised to hear they want to faze out the widgets as most of them seem really cool and useful.

I think the widgets caused a lot of lags on the pets.php page, especially for people with many Pets. I remember it sometimes took my page up to a minute to load...if it even loaded at all. Now that the page has been cleaned up I can finally visit the page again without having to make myself a calming tea first, lol

Oh wow, I had no idea and thanks for explaining! Yeah I can see why people wouldn't want to bring that back then! I'd definatly rather have a functional website then a little hunger bar! :3