at and sbo are often open for events too. Honestly though it took my mum ONE day to unlock the content upto lg when she set out to do it xD it took me nearly 2 weeks but i didnt have someone guiding me, max stat pets, gear and i was working lol

Personaly i dont think this is realy necessary, for most of the mini events you can still participate as long as you have at least the orchard unlocked witch isnt too hard to do, ferthermore nurrituring also have added drop rate in some cases for players who dont want to fight level 70 bosses in hope to drop a reward.

I have to say no support.

It didn't take me very long to reach AT and SBO when I first joined, and I didn't have guidance, or max stat pets, or anything like that.

If people don't like battling, then they likely won't want a new zone to battle in.

I like that, for the mini-fests, it gets me back into the LG, because that means I can hit two birds with one stone, I can battle for the fest stuff, but I also get my pets stronger, level up ranks, and obtain LG items.

WIth the seasonal festivals, I am in a new zone where my pets don't rank, I am not collecting anything for making their equipment stronger and I can't obtain LG items. I also have to memorize a new map and try to remember where the nodes and everything are... :P

I like the seasonal zones, but sometimes I wish that I could still do LG stuff while in the festival zones. (and other times it is nice to not have to worry about random ents getting upset with me and attacking me near the druids....)


(just noticed something in the OP)

I also wouldn't really like the idea that people who haven't opened up LG yet would get a 'special' zone just for them. It would just seem to give them an advantage, especially if they were able to take level 70s into the new zone. Festival zones tend to be a lot easier, at least to me, than the LG, so I would be a bit upset if the new zone for mini-fests were easier than the LG.

So... I have split thoughts on this.

First of all, back in the day there *were* special mini zones for Week of Love and Fortune Fest. Back then, the mini fests were very similar to the big seasonal fests. There were wild themes to catch, and at least the Week of Love zone had a named that spawned (if I'm remembering correctly. It has been like 7 years XD). There were also wheels of (broken) dreams that could be spun for chances at themed pets (these were part of all fests back then and were similar to the Black Friday wheel, except the chances of getting a pet were very small and you mostly got items of varying degrees of rarity instead).

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the mini zones reappear and have wild themes return for the mini fests. However... this would add 2+ more sets of themes for most species per year, so that could be an issue. If they were literally just zones that you ran around in for a chance at the same random bosses that show up in the LG for the mini fests.... well, then that's where it would get complicated, and likely unfair.

Having these separate zones for people not yet in the LG would likely mean one of two things: either the boss(es) would be much easier than the LG equivalents (similar to current zone bosses), or Krin would have to specially calibrate the boss(es) to be equally difficult as those in the LG, but scaling to the level of the various player pets. If the former, does Krin then have to calibrate the drop chance to be much lower on those bosses to account for them being easier to defeat so that there's less reason for higher level people to leave the LG and bring lower level parties to the mini zones? If the latter, will that discourage those already having trouble with the earlier areas from trying anyway, making the whole thing pointless?

As has been said, it really isn't difficult to at least get to SBO and AT, and usually the same options are open to those areas as in the LG. There's not a lot of grinding involved to get to those areas, and can be done with normal pets in gear that you can get from playing the game and running missions. I know because I did it within the first week I was here over 7 years ago before max stat pets even existed and there was no player created walk through, nor most of the player guides. I was running around with inefficient gear and a light/fire/air lineup. For someone that dislikes battling enough to have not gotten to at least the third area of the map, a new zone to grind and grind to find RNG popping bosses is not going to seem fun to them anyway, I'm sure. Far better would be suggestions for those that *don't* like battling. Something that relates to breeding, nurturing, releasing, forum games, or something entirely different.

So.... yeah. While I, personally, wouldn't mind a return of the mini fest areas with their own themes and bosses, I don't think that a set of new mini fest areas geared just toward those who haven't gotten to the LG yet would be a good idea. And given that Krin removed the former years ago... I suspect he's not interested in those returning either ^.^;

Im not sure Krin would be willing to add a new zone for people that arent willing to work and open the grove. I missed the part where the "new zone" would only be open for people that arent in the grove already. This would have like 95% of the player base upset that there was a new zone they couldnt access and i honestly cannot see krin doing something that would benefit so few people