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It would be good if someone at neopets reads this, and passes it on to her some of our concerns and fears.
We should make a big do and don't list of things we don't mind happening and things we really are adamant about not happening.
Actually, I'll just say Do, because it is more positive. No one likes don'ts.
DO
Have more freebies for all people. Freebies are fun and if everyone can get a freebie, we are happy.
You can reduce some inflation by making some items easier to get, but this should happen slowly. Sudden drastic changes would ruin neopets. Imagine if one day you had to pay millions to get a paint brush and the next day it was nearly free. That wouldn't be fair. To reduce prices you can make them slightly less rare over time.
People will be highly ticked off by drastic changes in the way people make money or if the prices of items change overnight.
Do continue to have wars and plots. If you want to have a few plots now and then that are geared towards younger kids, and therefore very very easy to solve or complete with little or no thinking or effort, that is fine.
Remember to have a few hard wars and plots for adults and you can give out clues or provide some way for assistance to be given to frustrated children. Or you can just have plots for adults and just state that this WILL be hard to solve and that younger children may get frustrated, but that's ok, because it isn't meant for everyone to be able to solve it.
Do continue to have the battledome, we like it. Some of us play only for the battledome, and some of us don't. We don't have to play the battledome if we don't want to, and that isn't what neopets is all about anyway, but to remove it now would mean losing a part of what neopets has become.
Do continue to have more worlds! No one would mind if worlds are free to go to for everyone. But making worlds where you have to get a totem to go to them, or have premium, isn't really a good idea. In the past this has been done, and I can tell you I did sign up for sponcers because I wanted to go to those worlds, but I cared nothing about the sponcers and I didn't use the accounts I made. It was wrong, but the majority of neopets users did that very same thing. It isn't fair to the sponcers, but I can tell you that is what happened and is likely to happen again.
Do continue to update the news EVERY day, even more news would be appreciated. Even better would be if you had something like the editorial on the news and answered peoples questions every day.
Do continue to take ideas from the public, you'll find we have a lot of good ideas for the site! If you use an idea it may be good to even say something about it on the news, so we know you are listening.
Do continue to have the Neopian times, beauty contest, random contest, poetry, and other contests, and if you want to make a section for little kids who may not can draw or write an advanced story or comic, that is ok. I wouldn't mind seeing stories written by very young members or veiwing their artwork. I don't want it all to completely change so that just anyone can get in. I don't want to see silly stories or scribble sent in and accepted just to be fair to younger veiwers. Not everyone should get in.. For younger children you can loosen the rules as to what is acceptable, you know what each age group is capable of writing or drawing. We realize a four year old's drawing isn't going to be a good as a seven year olds, but don't accept anything that anyone sends in! They should have some effort put into their creations!
Do continue to draw artwork in the current style, not sacrificing anything for the sake of being cute, or not to scarey for kids. For example, continue drawing pirates that look like pirates, mutants that look like mutants, ect.
Do keep Dr. Sloth and his minions. Do keep other villians. If you make up a new villian, don't be afraid to make him as scary as you like! A world where everything is goodie goodie all the time isn't really fun. Sometimes we need a villain to liven things up. Don't cutesy them up to make them less scary. Darigan in his flaming demon form was scary, but I didn't hear of any little kiddies having nightmares about him.
Do keep our pets exactly as they are, without redrawing them to fit what you think would be a better style for your new population. Do keep some of the pets looking ugly, or mean, or lazy or fat. Just keep everyone like they are, because your users like variety.
If you write stories or have new content on the site, please don't steryotype pets. Not all Darigan pets should be bullys, and not all skeith should be fat and lazy. Not all pretty or cute pets are nice.
You should twist up what people assume about the pets and show us examples where some pets aren't exactly what we might have come to believe they are.
Not all the heros are aishas and lupes! We need to see more attention paid to some of the lesser used species. I mean, I can hardly remember when I saw anything new about the Chomby or a Chomby featured in a plot or war. Buzz, Lenny, Kiko, and peophin also don't get a lot of attention. Many pets don't get enough attention on the site, and it seems like they use an aisha and a lupe in every plot!
Do continue to make neopian foods that are neopian foods. You know, weird fruits and items that would only be found in neopia. A few sponcer foods are ok, but we don't need whole shops just to sell hamburgers or a whole new world devoted to some sponcer. For example, no one really wants a Lucky Charms land, Coke Land or a McDonalds land. This is neopia, and we have weird foods like tigersquash and Chokatos. The majority of people don't even feed their pets the sponcer foods, so continue to make a few foods that will always be under 100nps, since that is what the majority of people feed their pets anyway. A few more freebie feeding spots, like the giant jelly and omelette should open up as well, because the newest people have to use free foods to get on their feet.
Do continue to have more polls on the site. It would be good if even more were added. We like to feel like we have some control on what is added or removed from the site.
If you decide you really MUST redraw something and have given that a lot of thought and consideration, please let us vote on the outcome. You could draw several version of the final pet, and let us decide. I think you'll find if you do have to redraw something, that it may surprise you that most people, even kids, might prefer something that isn't too cute. We like our pets to keep some dignity about them. If we want something sickenly muppet nickoledon cute, we go for baby pets.
Do keep Neopia mostly separate from the real world. Nick charactors or Disney charactors should not be seen running around in Neopia! I know I really don't want to see that happen, or see a Nick land, or Nick Pets. We shouldn't be able to "adopt a Mickey Mouse" or "Adopt a Dora the Explorer Worm" or some junk like that.
Do continue to make more neopets. Some lazy ones, some cute ones, some ugly ones, some mean looking ones, some really tough ones, and a whole lot of variety of pets. Not all cute. We don't mind if our pet look scaley and spikey and like it could bite your head off, some of us want a pet that looks like that.
Some people want five and are fully able to care for 5 neopets. I think there should be a limit to how many you can adopt. But I think having five would not be too many.
Do make some way of renaming a pet out of the pound. I don't know if it would work, but if it will, find a way if you can. People like the pound, but it is hard to find a good pet in there with a name you like. If we could rename our pets that would be great.
Adam says it isn't possible to rename pets. But it really wouldn't be renaming them. Really what it would be is that a screen would come up with the pet on it. It would say "Do you want to adopt "12345Ieatpoopoo2?"
and rename it?
You'd get a screen that would show all the pets stats, colors, books read, and any memories it has. This would in effect allow you to create a pet that will already have all those stats, memories, books read, and any items it might own.
So you'd in effect, be cloning the stats of the old pet. This old pet would then no longer exist. It would be deleted from the database, but the stats and stuff would go onto a new pet.
No one would really be aware that the old pet was deleted, and really it doesn't matter, since the new pet is in it's place and has the same "memories" as the old one. It is basically the same thing.
Do work with staff to find a way of making clothing usable on neopets and other items that have no use, let's find a way to use it!
Also, if you want to add something new to the site, don't talk and talk about it until you are like 100% sure it is going to be something you will add to the site. I mean, we heard about neoschools but they never happened. Then we heard about the Dr Sloth space plot and that never happened. It would be better if we never had heard about that at all.
Would anyone be terribly upset if some of the rare pets were easier to get? I don't think I'd care if krawks, Draiks, Cybunnies, and other pets were easier to get. But I don't have a potion or egg or something that I could sell. I think it might upset those who have items to sell. But I know a lot of people beg me for "The secret" of getting a krawk. And it really is sad because I know most of the people will never get one, because the only secret there is to getting one is to be rich.
Basically what I would like is if the site carried on just as if nothing happened at all, we didn't notice it had a new owner, there wasn't a sudden explosion of toys and cartoons added to the real world just before Christmas, and if nothing really changed, but at the same thing things improved some.
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I never really took the time to see who Neopets was run by, quite frankly, so yeah...
