once again it seems I’ve magically disappeared again, largely due to technical difficulties. my projects have basically been ignored for days because my computer is utter scrap, but here’s something I thought of while I wait for an opportunity to resume being me:
PET STONES
yeah those things, they were supposed to be a “new level of pet customization” or whatever, but what I’ve noticed is that by presenting them in such a way that they’re intrinsically “better” than normal pet skins, they’ve counter-intuitively made nearly everyone’s pets look EXACTLY THE SAME.
how disappointing. ironically the way to have the most unique pet possible at this point is exactly the same way it was before, get a regular divine pet (although even default rares are becoming, well, “rare”). so I came with an alternative:
it’s extremely simple really, you get to put cloths/dyes on pets now!
those do wonders for making everyone using the same class skin look unique, so why not apply the same principle to pets? due to most pets being super small and largely one color, large/small dyes have identical effects on pets, meaning that they only have one dying map (one dye per pet unlike 2 per character). when you use a dye, you get to choose whether you want it on the pet, or on yourself. it’s consumed either way, but now you can finally make your geb artifact pet look different from all the others!
since pets never die, their dyes are permanent. this raises a small issue for those who would like to have a non-dyed pet after a while. solution: Clear Dyes! these are exactly like normal dyes, but when used they remove whatever dye was there before. these can also be used on players just like normal dyes.
alternatively to all this confusion of using dyes on two things at once, pet dyes can be released as an entirely separate item from normal dyes, whichever works out better.
samples:
pet dye item:
clear dyes:
geb artifact + red dragon scales =
(actually would look like this:)
redbot + spring green dye =
landfish + purple dye =
red karate penguin + yellow green dye =
sir bagston + slate gray dye =
penguin tank + medium blue dye =
nut artifact + white dye =
I’ll probably make more samples later.
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