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Re: OFFICIAL: New Suggestions Thread

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Yeah, the gold incentive already leads to spam as it is(not bad spam, but it happens).
Adding a creature incentive would make it worse.
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Seeing as how AIM is being discontinued, and quite a few of these other options are outdated, maybe there could be new IM fields?
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Re: OFFICIAL: New Suggestions Thread

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I had this idea while back but hadn't suggested it, but today I figured it's better to throw it out then to never say anything.
I think that since the lore often talks about magi going out and finding the eggs in the wild, we should be able to do that to.

I think different areas of the map should have places where you can get stream creatures from the wild, but only creatures native to the area. For example traveling to raza could get you things like mist stalkers, manticores, puvia and cobras, traveling to an aquatic area could let you find leviathans, hippocampi, and krakens, heading to the Silva Forest could get you Farir, kitsune, and minicorns, the mountains could let you find ibex, torveus dragons, and pegasi, and there could even be something like an urban area for things like winged cats and other magical creatures that are basically domesticated.
Those are just some examples, there are probably more potential areas then just those and there are a lot more then just 3 creatures that could drop in most areas.

And I was thinking that maybe they could be like extra "streams", not like the grass forest or something and not actual streams specifically but areas where you click on eggs and pick the one you wanna take as you would in the stream.
A "stream" where only eggs from that area of the world spawn, that would make hunting specific stream creatures a bit easier without being TOO easy and just be an interesting thing to do.
Of course only *stream* creatures would appear and they would still adhere to rarity, you shouldn't be able to just go out the the Silva forest and get free Dark Unicorns like they're leaves on a tree or something after-all!

And maybe certain areas could require certain creatures, like Raza might need a Mist Stalker, aquatic areas might need a Hippocampus, the mountains might need a Pegasus, the list goes on. After-all you would need both proper protection and SOME experience with magical creatures before you go out into the wild to find eggs the old fashioned way.
We would probably need some kinda way to only let "experienced" magi do this so it's an unlockable thing and because a newbie with no creatures wouldn't just go out into a dangerous magical world without any experience with magical creatures, so I thought maybe needing certain creatures equipped for the area would be the best way to do this, since they have both some from of protection and obvious experience from having been around the keep long enough to have the adult creature.

Speaking of which, this might need some kind of limit/cool-down. Maybe you would need to rest after you take some eggs, perhaps you could get X amount of eggs per day before you're stuck with the stream due to travel fatigue.

Sorry that this is so long.

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OMG my grammar is terrible. Edited for what little good that will do!
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Re: OFFICIAL: New Suggestions Thread

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blockEdragon wrote:
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I had this idea while back but hadn't suggested it, but today I figured it's better to throw it out then to never say anything
I think that since the lore often talks about magi going out and finding the eggs in the wild that we should be able to do that.

I think different areas of the map should have places where you can get stream creatures from the wild, but only creatures native to the area, for example traveling to raza could get you things like mist stalkers, manticores, puvia and cobras, traveling to an aquatic area could let you find leviathans, hippocampi, and krakens, heading to the Silva Forest could get you Farir, kitsune, and minicorns, the mountians could let you find ibex, torveus dragons, and pegasi, and there could even be something like an urban area for things like winged cats and other magical creatures that are basically domesticated.
Those are just some examples, there are probably more potential areas then just those and there are a lot more then just 3 creatures that could drop in most areas.

And I was thinking that maybe they could be like extra "streams", not like the grass forest or something, not actually streams but areas where you click on eggs and pick the one you wanna take.
a "stream" where only eggs from that area of the world spawn, that would make hunting specific stream creatures a bit easier without being TOO easy and just be an interesting thing for the lore.
Of course only *stream* creatures would appear and they would still adhere to rarity, you shouldn't be able to just go out the the Silva forest and get free Dark Unicorns like they're leaves on a tree or something after-all!

And maybe certain areas could require certain creatures, like Raza might need a Mist Stalker, aquatic areas might need a Hippocampus, the mountains might need a Pegasus, the list goes on. After-all you would need both proper protection and SOME experience with magical creatures before you go out into the wild to find eggs the old fashioned way.
We would probably need some kinda way to only let "experienced" magi do this so it's an unlockable thing and because a newbie with no creatures wouldn't just go out into a dangerous magical world without any experience with magical creatures, so I thought maybe needing certain creatures equipped for the area would be the best way to do this, since they have both some from of protection and obvious experience from having been around the keep long enough to have the adult creature.

Speaking of which, this might need some kind of limit/cool-down, like maybe you would need to rest after you take some eggs, like you can get X amount of eggs per day before you're stuck with the stream from travel fatigue.

Sorry that this is so long.
Spoilered this because it is a bit long, but YES. Perhaps there could be quests to unlock these streams, which require certain creatures to complete, then the other ones like Block mentioned need to be in your keep to return. Perhaps make it so you can only do one quest every so many days, to slow down how long it takes to find them all.
The limit/cooldown would work best if it for all the unlocked wild streams, like was suggested. That way using these streams would be more appealing for creatures you plan to hatch, rather than eggs you plan to freeze.
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Re: OFFICIAL: New Suggestions Thread

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Ryutana wrote: Spoilered this because it is a bit long, but YES. Perhaps there could be quests to unlock these streams, which require certain creatures to complete, then the other ones like Block mentioned need to be in your keep to return. Perhaps make it so you can only do one quest every so many days, to slow down how long it takes to find them all.
The limit/cooldown would work best if it for all the unlocked wild streams, like was suggested. That way using these streams would be more appealing for creatures you plan to hatch, rather than eggs you plan to freeze.
Thank you, but it can't be too limited otherwise the extra streams are useless, a few days per single egg seems like a bit much, since it already takes like a day to hatch an egg and we have 800+ creatures and growing i'm not sure we need such a huge line of defense against people catching em' all.
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Re: OFFICIAL: New Suggestions Thread

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blockEdragon wrote:
Ryutana wrote: Spoilered this because it is a bit long, but YES. Perhaps there could be quests to unlock these streams, which require certain creatures to complete, then the other ones like Block mentioned need to be in your keep to return. Perhaps make it so you can only do one quest every so many days, to slow down how long it takes to find them all.
The limit/cooldown would work best if it for all the unlocked wild streams, like was suggested. That way using these streams would be more appealing for creatures you plan to hatch, rather than eggs you plan to freeze.
Thank you, but it can't be too limited otherwise the extra streams are useless, a few days per single egg seems like a bit much, since it already takes like a day to hatch an egg and we have 800+ creatures and growing i'm not sure we need such a huge line of defense against people catching em' all.
Whoops, I must not have explained what I was thinking as thoroughly as I meant. What I meant about the few days was this:
You do the quest to unlock the world stream in the Silva Forest, and therefore have access to the eggs for that area's creatures. You can take the max number of eggs (2, perhaps, similar to the Grass Forest quest?) after this, and repeat it daily from then on as you want.
However, instead of being able to move straight to the quest to unlock another world stream, you have to wait a one or two days to begin the next quest. The in game reason would be for traveling back to the keep and prepping for the next exploration mission, perhaps. After waiting the required time you can then travel to, for example, the Jungle of Raza. There, you can complete that quest and unlock its rewards. Another delay of a day or so, then travel to the Alasre Mountains to unlock those eggs. And so on until all the world 'streams' are unlocked.

You would need adult creatures to complete those quests, but after you can return to them as you want. The only real delay would be in unlocking the world streams, then you can return to all of them as frequently as you want.

Of course, that's just my opinion of a way that would minimize how quickly they all get accessed. It could also work that you can do all the quests in a single day if you really want, and have all the creatures available already. :derp: I just really like the idea of world streams either way.
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Ryutana wrote: Whoops, I must not have explained what I was thinking as thoroughly as I meant. What I meant about the few days was this:
You do the quest to unlock the world stream in the Silva Forest, and therefore have access to the eggs for that area's creatures. You can take the max number of eggs (2, perhaps, similar to the Grass Forest quest?) after this, and repeat it daily from then on as you want.
However, instead of being able to move straight to the quest to unlock another world stream, you have to wait a one or two days to begin the next quest. The in game reason would be for traveling back to the keep and prepping for the next exploration mission, perhaps. After waiting the required time you can then travel to, for example, the Jungle of Raza. There, you can complete that quest and unlock its rewards. Another delay of a day or so, then travel to the Alasre Mountains to unlock those eggs. And so on until all the world 'streams' are unlocked.

You would need adult creatures to complete those quests, but after you can return to them as you want. The only real delay would be in unlocking the world streams, then you can return to all of them as frequently as you want.

Of course, that's just my opinion of a way that would minimize how quickly they all get accessed. It could also work that you can do all the quests in a single day if you really want, and have all the creatures available already. :derp: I just really like the idea of world streams either way.
OHHHHHH, Yea that is a pretty good idea, one more issue though, small one but it's kind of a hole, why would your first egg hunting trip be in one of the most dangerous areas possible?

If I where making the mechanics i'd work up from least dangerous to most.
I think the "urban stream" example I gave would be the best place to start, because if I was allowing a newbie magi go out alone on their first exploration to find eggs i'd be sending them to a town to look for stray(/up for adoption) eggs or something, let em hunt meowls and winged cats.
Not only is it the least dangerous area with the least dangerous creatures but it also gets them used to travel.

Which sounds better?
"For my first try at egg hunting I should go to the forest filled with Cerverids, Eldritch Dragons, wild Direwolves, and Whatever It Is We Worship knows what else, and try and egg some eggs while i'm at it"
(I know none of those are stream creatures but they all live in that forest!)

Or

"For my first try at egg hunting i'm gonna go to this town and get used to different people from different places while dealing with some of the most harmless and tame creatures out there, and maybe adopt an unwanted egg or two while i'm at it"

After that all the areas are pretty dangerous so then they could just go from least to most or just let people pick after that.
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I'd like to see a space on each tab page where a player can add a description for that tab, such as "Army of Unicorns, I must collect them all like King Haggard!" or sales information if it's a sales tab. It doesn't have to be long, but enough so that when someone goes to the tab, the description could show right above the table, and the user can get more info. This could also be great for info about giveaways, or even role play and family lineages.
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blockEdragon wrote:OHHHHHH, Yea that is a pretty good idea, one more issue though, small one but it's kind of a hole, why would your first egg hunting trip be in one of the most dangerous areas possible?

If I where making the mechanics i'd work up from least dangerous to most.
I think the "urban stream" example I gave would be the best place to start, because if I was allowing a newbie magi go out alone on their first exploration to find eggs i'd be sending them to a town to look for stray(/up for adoption) eggs or something, let em hunt meowls and winged cats.
Not only is it the least dangerous area with the least dangerous creatures but it also gets them used to travel.

Which sounds better?
"For my first try at egg hunting I should go to the forest filled with Cerverids, Eldritch Dragons, wild Direwolves, and Whatever It Is We Worship knows what else, and try and egg some eggs while i'm at it"
(I know none of those are stream creatures but they all live in that forest!)

Or

"For my first try at egg hunting i'm gonna go to this town and get used to different people from different places while dealing with some of the most harmless and tame creatures out there, and maybe adopt an unwanted egg or two while i'm at it"

After that all the areas are pretty dangerous so then they could just go from least to most or just let people pick after that.
I was just picking places at random, really, for examples. Perhaps the first quest, like you mentioned, could start in the keep and be a lesson for the magi? Then from there they can go to progressively further from the keep areas, or something like that.
Kesstryl wrote:I'd like to see a space on each tab page where a player can add a description for that tab, such as "Army of Unicorns, I must collect them all like King Haggard!" or sales information if it's a sales tab. It doesn't have to be long, but enough so that when someone goes to the tab, the description could show right above the table, and the user can get more info. This could also be great for info about giveaways, or even role play and family lineages.
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I stupidly posted this as its own thread, so now I'm putting it here. :derp:

I just thought of this, and it may or may not be a great idea but I'm trying. :lol:

Well, I thought maybe we could do a 'stocking stuffers/candy cane hunt' thing where we might randomly find candy when clicking on creatures (maybe only other people's) that we haven't clicked on that day, and the candy can be used to get pets/items from a special shop. This will encourage pets to grow faster during the Christmas period so everyone can get out of egglock faster and get many more eggs than they otherwise would have been able to get. It will also be fun to hunt for candy to trade in for rewards.

The other idea is that we may randomly find a pet instead of candy when doing the clicking.

Thanks for reading. Do let me know what you think and sorry if it's bad. XD
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