So I find myself unreasonably attached to the first pets I ever caught plus the one I generated as my starter. As far as Sylesti pets go, they're not that great: the starter pet is limited to two visible traits (or four hidden traits) and the captured pets often had no traits at all because I didn't know that much about traits yet.

I can sort of fix this with the captured pets by using the Genetic Mutators, but then only once. The starter pet (as far as I can tell) there's nothing I can do at all.

My suggestion is to come up with some sort of fair way to continue adding on visible traits to these old pets. I've got a couple of ideas:

For Genetic Mutators, add an age restriction. Instead of only being able to use them once EVER, maybe you can use them only once every 90 days (or whatever is deemed fair).

For pets that were starter pets or otherwise generated, maybe you can add an item, let's call it a Genetic Enhancer, that works similarly: on using the item, you can go back to the generator and add 1-2 Trait Points worth of hidden or visible traits, but you could only use this item after a certain amount of days of age each time. (Another idea to restrict this might be to make it a rare account-bound drop from adventure bosses.) You could also stock up on these points from one use to another. I would say you should be able to change the traits your pet has while in the Generator like this, but not the color, so that the pet dyes don't lose their use for generated pets.

I 100% agree with all of this! Great idea.

I agree with this, when I first started I had no idea what I was doing and I wish I could improve on my starter more

I think this would be great, because i once seen another thread when some older players were suggesting for their starter pets to be regenerated, since a lot of traits has been added since then. This would be a way for their starter pets to have the newer traits

I totally agree with this. I had no idea how to use the generator and I'm not very happy with my starter even though I'm extremely attached.

This is such a great idea! I love my starter and the-mate-for-your-starter-that-is-your-first-catch, even though Wish (my starter) doesnt look that great and Rune (her mate)... has lucky runes and is a not-nice murky green color. They havent ever been moved from Slot 1 and Slot 2 in my first tab of my first stable. Theyre my welcoming crew. Go say hi ^.^

Anyways, Id love this. I hope Krin sees and at least thinks about implementing it!!