Do you name your creatures?

[FennecFyre]

I seem to see more nameless creatures than named when I click around, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who names their creatures. If you do, do you try to name every creature in your keep, or just the ones that are important to you? What kind of naming conventions do you follow? Are there any clever or creative names you're particularly proud of, or names with stories behind them? And if you don't name your creatures, why not? (In the case of armies or hoards of one type of creature, I totally understand)

For me, I've collected so many over the years that it's getting harder to avoid duplicate names (I know I have at least two fish of different species named Gupp), so I tend to just combine letters and syllables that sound nice, unless inspiration happens to strike.

[VilaWolf]

Most of mine are named something having to do with folklore or mythology. A character name or legendary items/weapons/scrolls like a goblet that's immune to poison or sometimes place names. Names of books or chapters, critters of all sort the world over, gods and afterlifes and other-worlds, ghosts or goblins or the legions of boogeyman / vampire / undead and on occasion a folklore/mythology researcher or translator and catalogers.

Rarely it's something more normal than that and usually these end up either a memorial pet or a lineage when they become breedable. The only real exception to the naming theme is the army of undead rats. Most of those are named for actors who've played either renfield or dracula.

[blockEdragon]

I would name more of them if the site was better about things, but since naming a critter drastically lowers it's value and renaming is so darn overpriced I don't name things unless i'm absolutely sure I won't ever need to sell them or ever regret the name I give them.

So no, not really. I'd love to name more critters but it's got too many drawbacks :/
I'll name an stream critter on a whim or a critter that I need to immediately identify without opening up the pedigree checker but that's about it. If I may be so bold - the MS naming system is just plain bad and makes me not wanna name anything.

[Azima]

I would name more of them if the site was better about things, but since naming a critter drastically lowers it's value and renaming is so darn overpriced I don't name things unless i'm absolutely sure I won't ever need to sell them or ever regret the name I give them.

So no, not really. I'd love to name more critters but it's got too many drawbacks :/
I'll name an stream critter on a whim or a critter that I need to immediately identify without opening up the pedigree checker but that's about it. If I may be so bold - the MS naming system is just plain bad and makes me not wanna name anything.

I second everything you've said. People seem to never wanna buy named things. So I try to avoid it altogether.

[Rosehill]

I would name more of them if the site was better about things, but since naming a critter drastically lowers it's value and renaming is so darn overpriced I don't name things unless i'm absolutely sure I won't ever need to sell them or ever regret the name I give them.

So no, not really. I'd love to name more critters but it's got too many drawbacks :/
I'll name an stream critter on a whim or a critter that I need to immediately identify without opening up the pedigree checker but that's about it. If I may be so bold - the MS naming system is just plain bad and makes me not wanna name anything.

I'd just like to say that we are always glad to get concrete suggestions as to how to improve things. Telling something is "just plain bad" gets nobody nowhere, even though it would appear that in general on the Internet world making statements like that are fashionable and can garner some imaginery coolness points. More often than not phrasing things that way just causes unnecessary dividing between some imaginery "us" and "them" and doesn't bring anything good to anyone. (:

Everyone on Magistream is allowed to voice their opinions about the site features. If something isn't working well, or at all, or is "bad", the only way to possibly get any improvements on them is to tell us how and why you feel it's bad or not working, and what changes would make the issue better. Then we can at least consider the options and possibly make things better.

[Reima]

I want to name all the critters I keep. Or well, at least the adults, but I've just not been able to name things lately, like, I haven't cared too much or gotten a name in my head. I should name more things but mmmmmmmmmmh...... Mostly I try to name the Parentless creatures I'm armying so I don't have to check that stuff when I'm breeding. But there's one bred creature that's got a name in the army and I'm like. No, you mess up my stuff. And there's been a few typos. Those are irritating because they're accidental and then they cost a lot of money to fix like BlockE said. I don't name Everything because of the selling thing too and that's why I don't name eggs because I can't tell if it hatches as a 0.00% or below 1% or stops at 100% or 99.99% so I don't want to waste stuff on that. There's also a critter or few with like old memey names, and I'm like "Man, it'd be kinda nice to give them a proper name" but it'd cost..... So so much. Also guests, some of them, don't like named creatures
At least Magi doesn't have something where if the name is already taken you can't use it
I'm going to have to have like a 'trash' sale where I sell named critters that I don't need. Some day, some day

[blockEdragon]

I'd just like to say that we are always glad to get concrete suggestions as to how to improve things. Telling something is "just plain bad" gets nobody nowhere, even though it would appear that in general on the Internet world making statements like that are fashionable and can garner some imaginery coolness points. More often than not phrasing things that way just causes unnecessary dividing between some imaginery "us" and "them" and doesn't bring anything good to anyone. (:

Everyone on Magistream is allowed to voice their opinions about the site features. If something isn't working well, or at all, or is "bad", the only way to possibly get any improvements on them is to tell us how and why you feel it's bad or not working, and what changes would make the issue better. Then we can at least consider the options and possibly make things better.

I did not just say "it's bad" and then nothing else I said exactly how and why it's bad just like you said I should. The price and devaluing of a critter is the "how", the "why" is because it severely discourages anyone from naming anything lest they regret it later and pay out the back to fix it or loose the critter's re-sale value. A naming system no one wants to use is a very bad one.

The current naming system is a gold sink but it is an overpriced, barely used gold sink that makes things less fun. Instead of being something that removes large amounts of gold to slow inflation like a good or even okay gold sink it just makes no one want to name anything, and since no one wants to name anything in the first place the gold sink is also self defeating on top of being un-enjoyable - nothing to rename if nothing is named, thus no gold is eliminated. On top of being bad naming system it is a bad gold sink because a goldsink no one spends money on is a bad gold sink.

[Rosehill]

I'd just like to say that we are always glad to get concrete suggestions as to how to improve things. Telling something is "just plain bad" gets nobody nowhere, even though it would appear that in general on the Internet world making statements like that are fashionable and can garner some imaginery coolness points. More often than not phrasing things that way just causes unnecessary dividing between some imaginery "us" and "them" and doesn't bring anything good to anyone. (:

Everyone on Magistream is allowed to voice their opinions about the site features. If something isn't working well, or at all, or is "bad", the only way to possibly get any improvements on them is to tell us how and why you feel it's bad or not working, and what changes would make the issue better. Then we can at least consider the options and possibly make things better.

I did not just say "it's bad" and then nothing else I said exactly how and why it's bad just like you said I should. The price and devaluing of a critter is the "how", the "why" is because it severely discourages anyone from naming anything lest they regret it later and pay out the back to fix it or loose the critter's re-sale value. A naming system no one wants to use is a very bad one.

The current naming system is a gold sink but it is an overpriced, barely used gold sink that makes things less fun. Instead of being something that removes large amounts of gold to slow inflation like a good or even okay gold sink it just makes no one want to name anything, and since no one wants to name anything in the first place the gold sink is also self defeating on top of being un-enjoyable - nothing to rename if nothing is named, thus no gold is eliminated. On top of being bad naming system it is a bad gold sink because a goldsink no one spends money on is a bad gold sink.

Again, this is just stating that it's bad without suggestions on how to make it better. As if the only feedback we get from a feature is that it's bad and it's not working, and we don't get opinions on how to make it, or the things that make it bad, better, it brings into question whether that kind of a feature should be in place at all. If the renaming system is so bad, should there be a renaming system at all? Vs. Are the renaming fees bad? If so, then what would be better fees? Is the renaming system not fun? How would it be more fun?

The renaming system was never intended to be a gold sink, thus it's not meant to work effectively to that purpose. Just because something on the site requires gold doesn't mean it's a gold sink or meant to be one.

[SouthernCryptid]

The renaming feature does make it quite discouraging to name a special creature, such a donation creature, due to the cost of fixing any possible mistakes or renaming a creature one bought in a trade. As such, creatures maintain their value more if they are not named, so if one thinks they may need to resale a creature in the future, it is generally a better choice not to name it.

A good way to improve this issue (because I would agree, wanting to rename donation creatures is not fun due to the exorbitant feeling costs) would be to lower the cost by some degree. Not everyone enjoys the game by goldmining- and the cost to rename special creatures feels harsh to members (like myself) that don't goldmine.

(Yes, I know there are ways to 'easily' goldmine. Yes, I know that goldmining is fun to some folks. c: That's fine and dandy. There are lots of opinions and they're all fine!)

As for myself, I tend to name my donation creatures and then just deal with it later if I don't like the names, because that cost is often more than I'm willing to pay to just rename a creature.

Perhaps the cost could scale a bit instead of being flat? Or perhaps removing the cost altogether would be a concrete suggestion? (Suggested removing it altogether because I'm not sure if there is anyone that specifically finds this restrictive aspect 'fun', though there are probably a ton of people that feel neutrally about it or would prefer it not be removed because it's been here so long and they've had to throw gold into the metaphorical void over it)

[blockEdragon]

Again, this is just stating that it's bad without suggestions on how to make it better. As if the only feedback we get from a feature is that it's bad and it's not working, and we don't get opinions on how to make it, or the things that make it bad, better, it brings into question whether that kind of a feature should be in place at all. If the renaming system is so bad, should there be a renaming system at all? Vs. Are the renaming fees bad? If so, then what would be better fees? Is the renaming system not fun? How would it be more fun?

The renaming system was never intended to be a gold sink, thus it's not meant to work effectively to that purpose. Just because something on the site requires gold doesn't mean it's a gold sink or meant to be one.

Every issue I listed explicitly came from the fees in some way. The game is less fun with them there because it makes no one wanna name anything due to the drawbacks listed above. They're stifling the one of the creative aspects of a petsite. The fees are what is making the system bad and should be removed.