Design a Creatu Contest and Other Ideas.


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Sciver

10:35pm Sep 12 2009

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Design a Creatu Contest
I see a lot of suggestions for new creatu on here but what about a competition for one to be made?

Anyone in the res community could participate and the judging could be split into appearance and backstory of the creatu so that non-artists could have a shot.

Each person could submit as many entries as they like (viable entries). When the deadline ends everyone could vote on the creatu they like best. To encourage a fair voting system the entrants could be anonymous and the identities revealed only at the end. This is so new users that don't have many acquaintances won't be at a disadvantage to established users.

Maybe the winning creatu could be made into a regular or at least a limited edition creatu.


Single CS Items
I think it would be beneficial to the users if we could have the option to purchase items like name tags, natural colored jelly beans and gender pendants in single quantities. A lot of users usually only need one when they buy items like name tags and sell the others to users.


Differentiated Alerts
I personally think it's a bit of a pain to receive an alert only to find out that it's a new rmail or a new respal request. I guess I'm just lazy, but it would be nice if the alerts could link us to the proper destination when the pop up message appears instead of always having to go to the alert page.


Send Rmail Link on Profiles
My laziness talking again. It would be nice if there could be a link on people's profiles to send rmail to them instead of copy/pasting their username each time you want to send them an rmail.
wolfspirit25

9:07am Sep 13 2009

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I think we have enough creatu for now, so honestly I don't support the design a creatu contest. We need to focus on making the existing ones look better (revamps for creatu like the Roditore) and getting colors (dye kits for the creatu). Again, we don't need any more species as far as I'm concerned.

The CS items are sold in packs to make them more valuable, being able to buy just one would decrease their value in my opinion, but I don't think I'm the one with the best knowledge of this, we'll let other people comment on this one some more.

Differentiated alerts are all well and good, but I don't think they're necessary. It's just a couple more clicks to get to the appropriate page. Plus, if someone has made an offer on a creatu and then withdrawn that offer and we were taken to the trades page for no reason, it'd be slightly odd, so I'm not sure about this one. Seems like a lot of coding for something that wouldn't be that much help.

Same as I said above for the rmail link, but I support this one anyway. I do find it kind of annoying that we have to copy and paste their name to an rmail to rmail someone. It would certainly be nice if there was an "rmail" link on their profile that took you to the "compose rmail" page, just with their username filled into the "To" category.

So, to summarize, don't support the first three, support the last one. 




MiaViper

1:54pm Sep 13 2009

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@ Send Rmail Link on Profiles
Love LOVE this suggestion... full support.
Since isn't not only a h*censored*le to have to go back to chat/profile/"backwards"in browser to find the name you wanted to mail too...
also i tend to forget who and what i wanted to mail on the way from profile to compose-r-mail... it's a long way with many distractions. Like unread or unanswered r-mails still in inbox, new allers popping up on the way etc. °XD

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@ Design a Creatu Contest
- how about a design an Item Contest instead?
I agree with Wolfspi that there are enough Creatu (+1) around already. Or at least enough so that they don't need to get more ever so often with each contest.

@ Single CS Items
Let them stay in bunches... the amount isn't too high just keep 1/2 for later or so... with thier somewhat stable value extras are nice things to trade with even.
(besides for beans, you never only need "1" unless you only want sepia pets... x3 Nametags you often need 2 too, esp if you're tagging some name onto another creatu.)

@ Differentiated Alerts (on alert popup)
hm... nice ideas for lazy people. (like me) XD But not necessary.
At least not for the popup itself in my eyes, that that leads to the alerts page is fine. On the "allerts"-page i would love if the listed events would link to the mails/ pet trade  /update or whatever place the new event happened.
But that... is not realy necessary too. XD




~Mia
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NekoLemur

4:47am Sep 16 2009

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Sciver i understand you completely!




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acidicfire

9:07pm Sep 27 2009

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@ Send Rmail Link on Profiles

complete, absolute support. it's incredibly annoying going to the userpage then backing up to rmail to copy/paste. It may sound supremely lazy, but it really is not user-friendly =__=




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Reeses

9:39pm Sep 27 2009

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Send Rmail Link on Profiles
My laziness talking again. It would be nice if there could be a link on people's profiles to send rmail to them instead of copy/pasting their username each time you want to send them an rmail.

I LOVE YOU FOR SUGGESTING THIS.

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TheMimic

12:58pm Nov 10 2009

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I agree with all of your suggestions, Sciver. For the design a creatu contest, I think it can be saved until all of the pets get revamped and all have colors so it can be easier to not accidently copy the future appearance of a revamped creatu.

Sure, we have enough creatus as there is, but many are forgetting the it's the variety that can benefit the ranchers since the many more types of creatu we can sell, the better their value due to the different species we have.




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