This sounds horrible, doesn't it? But I think there's a lot of players, by now, who sits and yank their hair out because of stables and hatcheries filled to the brim right? And it certainly pains me to have to release all the pretties to the wild, and they're almost impossible to sell off to..

SO, I suggest some sort of recycle feature.
Sell to NPC, maybe, for a symbolic price, like 100g, or whatnot, of course not so it will make a profit just to catch pets and sell them on.

Trading for essences. I'm thinking trading 5 or 10 of the same type of pet for a regular essence. This is, of course more abusable, seeing as people may just catch the number of random pets to trade it for an essence, but I hope there will be a security to it, somehow.

I hope this will get some support, I cannot bear to continue to release my hatchlings and other pretties T-T xD

This recycling thing is sounding nice! ^-^

I am honestly against the idea.

Pets, given enough space in the stables, multiply extremely quickly every three days the females have recovered. Selling to an NPC with the rate pets breed is going to make gold much easier to get, and could very easily devalue the currency.

And with essences, it's going to have to be a ridiculously high number of turned in pets to avoid devaluing the item as well.

I love this Idea I'm having that problem right now but I refuse to release them.I'm still working on selling them.I like the essence idea,but how about 50/100 gets you a regular essence and 100 gets you enhanced essences so i seriously doubt people would waste there gold on buying traps so as to get essences.I mean I would over time sell my sylest.Becuase I refuse to release them.

Fai and I have been thinking about creating an Adoption Center where users can OPT to release their pets into the Adoption Center.

Other users can then adopt these released pets from the Adoption Center.

The Adoption Center would then release a pet after x period of time of not being adopted.


This way, users can give other users the chance to adopt their pets through an automated service.

I'm really glad to hear that you're considering something like that, Krin ^^ I've seen the adoption center on other games as well, and it worked really well.


I completely share the concerns about trading for essences, but, I was thinking maybe you could trade x amount of adult pets of the same species, for an un-tradeable essence, and only once a day? That way, you will need to wait until bred pets become adults, and you cannot sell the essence for profit, but you still get to have a shot of getting the pet you were looking for, without having to release all those pets, that didn't turn out just like you wanted to? and that generated pet will still have to wait until it becomes adult to breed again..

I'm no programmer, but I'm thinking it would work a bit like the daily quests does? once a day, you have the option to trade x about of adult vulnyx (fx) for an un-tradable regular vulnyx essence..

I am fully behind the idea of an adoption center, so long as it is done right. Having it pay the user money is a bad idea though, for the points that Draco made. It could become an easy source of gold for people to just breed pets over and over again and sell the "unwanted" babies off, even more so with the ability to trade for a valuable item like an essence.

An adoption center should just be something where an unwanted pet can be given when the user thinks that someone out there may still want it. This could also play a nice role in preventing future inflation, by making pets from the center cost gold it will lower the overall gold in the market. Perhaps making the purchase price based on the number of carried/visible traits of the pet as well.

It does break my heart to release a sylesti that I think is pretty, but I just don't want anymore. It's can be hard though to drag people into my stables to adopt my unwanted pets, even if I'm giving them away for free. Aha I guess it's a bit silly to get sentimental over virtual pets, but hey, at one point those were pets that I wanted, so it's reasonable to think that someone else might want them too.

I would want to be able to sell pets that I dont want, maybe if there not completely the right color or if they did not get the genes i need for breeding.I just dont like releasing sylest and i prefer to sell them but as it's been stated it takes a while to sell pets.I really want to sell pets of the wrong colors or genes.Also I need to clear out my stable some.I like the adoption center idea though.

I think an adoption center would be amazing!!!! I have released sooo many pets this week and I hate doing it, I think I am going to price a bunch at 1 gold and post them up so they might go to a good home.

/herpderpnecro

I'd support this, hopefully with a clean and easy-to-understand interface.

Goodness knows when I go to some adoption agency on ANOTHER pet site, it's either you have to have some token or some currency to begin with, and I'd like it to be accessible to newbies who could ACTUALLY USE the pets to get on their feet.
By then, they're not really thinking of breeding until they get into the game, but there's just so many pets that could be used for battles. o,o