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Mireille
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Posted: 9/20/2018 at 6:46 PM
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It has you type in the pet's name so I don't believe releasing sylesti on accident would be an issue, just my two cents
Christinewho
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Posted: 9/30/2018 at 10:45 AM
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You can't really release pet on accident since you have to type the name of your pet/Sylvesti to release them...
A way to be certain do not release then name your pet(s).
Christinewho
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Posted: 9/30/2018 at 10:52 AM
Post #13
True, but some people don't name their pets --' Because they don't have any original ideas. ;)
Mireille
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Posted: 9/30/2018 at 12:44 PM
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Even if you don't type in a name you still have to write Un-named when releasing
Christinewho
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Posted: 9/30/2018 at 4:12 PM
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Yup. :)
MistressNyx
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Posted: 10/2/2018 at 6:11 PM
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I am against this idea.
For one, a lot of people will release former project pets that they have no use for once they have bred the final pair. They release instead of sell because they do not want all that hard work getting into someone else's hands and using it to gain money themselves, not the project owner's. Would you want someone to get rich off of your hard work? Of course not. If a pet was released into an 'adoption center' then others could get ahold of those project pets and use them as I said above. I will strongly oppose this idea.
The word discard? I know there are a lot of people on here, myself included, who are attached to their pixels. These in-game animals are supposed to represent pets, friends, companions, guardians. The word makes me think of just abandoning my pet, throwing it away, and not in a good way. I like the word 'release' because it makes me think of letting a pet, who has had a happy life in my stables, out into a sunny meadow (or high mountain, or a dark forest, etc, depending on where that specific pet would be happiest) to live a full life. Abandoning them, discarding them, is the opposite of that. I understand they are simply colors on a screen, but I cannot do that to any pet, live or virtual.
Being able to find pets in the wild should be an option that each player controls when they release each pet.
Absolutely agree that 'discard' is not a word I would ever like seen used for this feature. Discarding your pets.... it leaves a terrible taste in my mouth, even when we're just talking about pixels. Personally, I think of 'releasing' being more like the difference between an indoor and outdoor cat. The outdoor cat is free to roam, but always comes back to your yard/porch/home. You still think of them as your cat, you still love them and pet them and enjoy their company, but they're also out there doing their own thing for most of the day. That's what I imagine 'releasing' being like. If the word itself is confusing, I guess it could be changed to 'let outside' or something.
Discarding.... that sounds more like when people drive their pets way out to the middle of nowhere and abandon them. Honestly, if you were going to use the term at all, it should be for the option to find other people's pets in the wild. They were dumped in the wild and their previous owners never want to see them again. They have truly been discarded. A nicer option, though, would be naming it 'to the wild', or something similar.
Or, you know, just make that adoption center a thing and have the two options: release (as it currently works), and 'put up for adoption' (goes to the adoption center). The problem with the adoption center, though, is that I can see it quickly being flooded with undesirable pets, and then there would need to be a time limit for pets sitting in the adoption center before being released anyway (because of the way lineages work, they can't just be deleted).
However, I would like to say.... I can't see myself using the 'send to wild' or 'put up for adoption' options at all, even if they were implemented. I do a lot of project breeding, so anything I release from that would still just be released. I rarely breed random pets, and any tamed pets I don't want I sell (and those are usually either themed, or things other people wouldn't really want anyway). What I'm thinking is, those lovely released pets you see and want, and hope that these features would give you access to.... it's likely they would still get released because their previous owners wanted to release them. Otherwise, they would have been sold. Anyway, that's my two cent opinion on that.
I personally don't like the word "discard" when referring to pets, and I know a lot of people that are much more attached to their pixels than i am. The idea of "discarding" what represents a /pet/ to me is very unsettling. Releasing is a much better word for it, as it makes it feel less like putting the pet into a can full of garbage (or worse) and more like the pet is released to continue living its life happily elsewhere. "Discarding" sounds too cruel for soemthign that is supposed to represent a pet or companion, even if it is just pixels. And the way the internet seems to run today, a lot of people would take "discarding" much more personally than I would.
I see nothing wrong with the use of the word release. However, i will mention that ont he release popup, it says "Once released, it will be released into the wild and will be removed from your Stables/Hatchery" and yeah, that can be misleading. perhaps a change to that wording rather than renaming the feature itself would help to alleviate confusion? Maybe just saying "this pet will be removed from your hatchery/stable and can only b returned by reclaiming it." or something along those lines?
Edited By MistressNyx on 10/2/2018 at 6:12 PM.
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