Since we haven't had Monthly Items the last few months(understandable with the megazone AND festivals) I was thinking instead we could do a monthly pet gene. Similar to in festivals where there's pets with a set of genes you can only get in the festival.(such as Windchaser Luffox and the Peacock Griffis)

It would be less work for the artists to make a gene or mutation than an entire avatar item set, and would encourage users to keep playing during these in between times to try to trade or buy a pet with this gene or mutation. And when I say gene or mutation I mean ONE gene or mutation on ONE pet. Not like 4 on one species like the special ones or one for every species that'd be a lot of work.
For example It'd be a new mutation for Zolnixis one month and the next a new gene for Lupora the next.


Any other monthly alternates suggestions can go here too!

Would these be themed like pets with the restricted trait? Or would the new trait be available through a essence?

You have my full support with this though :) Maybe only like every other month just so in the generator you dont have this big list of red that you cant choose from

Probably like the themed pets with restricted traits, only not tagged. The colors could be randomly generated or have a set color scheme, but no tag.

If they were available through essences it'd defeat the point of having them be released monthly as we already get a big batch of genes and mutations every few months when a festival rolls around.

The issue with this is that it wouldn't make sense to release new genes or mutations on pets that are yet to get a revamp, and also honestly I'm not sure they're that much less intensive than an avatar set - it'd have to fit the male, female and both kinds of hatchling and it would have to layer with the existing genes/mutations well - think about how much changing around was needed to introduce the Loppy Ears on Luffox, so unless the monthly gene/mutations were always "boring" (I hope you know what I mean by that haha I don't literally mean yawn boring I mean inside the box without any lineart tweaking needed) it would be a pretty decent amount of work to go through once a month. Then we have the issue that gene slots really would start to fill up - look how close to completion the alphabet is for the Sylvorpa.

I think I would prefer pet costumes to genes/mutations as they don't affect the trait slots - we can still get new genes and muts during festivals - and they don't have to deal with any overlapping with mutations. Either way this is all stuff that would take artists away from the Megazone and other proceedings. Although a nice idea, I think I'd prefer not to have something released monthly and have the artists focus elsewhere. Judging by how long the Morkko revamp has taken, the artists' time is definitely not something to lightly consider.