Clothing - why??

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I hope they never have human avatars on the site! I find the complete lack of humans refreshing. I like how we are pretty much invisible, and the focus is all on the pets. I wouldn't want to be represented as some ugly human avatar. (and yes, I'm sure what ever they made would be ugly)

I like the idea someone had on another thread a while ago (sorry I forgot who) that your pet could wear clothes, you would equip them sort of like battle dome equipment, and it wouldn't show up on the picture (because that would be too much work) but it could be listed on the lookup, like with the stats-- wearing: pink quiggle scarf. It would be something at least.

[miz sparrow]

LOL that struck my funny bone... half hung up and half on the floor! That would be a nice way to equate them to the neohome items, and I like it. I think your idea has the best chance of being implemented, too.

I hope it was clear I wasn't trying to put down the clothing-on-neopets idea. I mean, if it was feasible server-wise I would LOVE that! I mainly wrote out the details on how hard it would be, for anyone who might not have realized the technical aspect of it.

The idea about "using" clothes like toys, along with a listing of what they're wearing, is very creative and I admire your good thinking! Still, I don't think that would thrill me any more than using Toys does, unless you get something out of it- not sure what though. I mean, toys make your pet happy. Food makes your pet non-hungry. Books make your pet smarter. What quality would clothes provide for your pet?

Extending that thought, I'd like to read some people's brainstorms on the following:

IF tnt added a characteristic for pets similar to happiness, hunger, and intelligence, that was to be modified by clothing... what would you choose?

What categories would you have.

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IF tnt added a characteristic for pets similar to happiness, hunger, and intelligence, that was to be modified by clothing... what would you choose?

Hmm.... how about beauty? Or charisma or something like that. It'd be pretty useless, just for fun, but then, happiness, intelligence, and hunger are pretty useless too. It would be an interesting idea. I'm all for more actual interaction with our pets, in any way.

I really agree that they should either find some sort of use for clothes, or get rid of them entirely. They're pointless as they are now, just junk that sits around.

[smudgeoffudge]

They should make a place to store clothing, sort of like the stamp album. But they could call it the clothing closet or something. You can just store all the clothing there and there would be a check list or something so you can see what else you need to collect. Maybe you can lay some clothing out for your pet to wear. You have to pretend it is wearing them or something.

[fishies]

but then, happiness, intelligence, and hunger are pretty useless too.

Happiness affects certain random events, such as the ones that turn your pet blue or red if they're unhappy or mad. Being hungry means no Battledome fights.

[Arctic]

IF tnt added a characteristic for pets similar to happiness, hunger, and intelligence, that was to be modified by clothing... what would you choose?

I think "comfort" would be a good one. Like during the winter months your pet would get cold so you could give it a sweater or something, and then lighter clothing for summer? I dunno. xD I was just thinking along the lines of in real life, where I live it gets kind of cold and people who have a skinny, short-haired dog like a greyhound will dress it in a sweater.

I don't really have a problem with clothing items being useless, though. I stick the pretty ones in my gallery.

[pipsqueeek]

I think whatever they do they shouldn't get rid of the clothes. Getting rid of any items would be sure to disappoint some people, and it's easy enough to just leave them how they are. I think they should either find some way to make them usable or stop releasing more, though, or at least much more/as often.

[sily_sicily]

I don't want a human av. Kinda destroys the whole neopets theme.
However, I think TNT can just make more use of the avatar they already have. One example is that you totally can't see it on your lookup. I think they should make it like:

User Lookup : usernamehere avatarhere

[Underdogpuff]

I really think it would be stupid to get rid of all the clothes they have created I mean TNT put a lot of work in their items. Of course, Not all Items can have useful things that can be done with them. Before the Battledome came out there was tons of useless Battledome items. I think if they added human counterparts they would be going into a different direction from the orignal site. I mean people were suppose to use their imagination how humans can live in a world where there is hardly any human influeunce. Not only that but some people collect lots of different things. I still collect NeoSchool Items because I think they are kinda cute. Not only that but someday maybe 4-5 years from now they might do something similiar do the NeoSchool.

So I figure why get rid of something just because of it's usefulliness?

[yvonne_l_d]

A lot of the things that are useful are not used in the way they were intended. A lot of cute toys are collected for galleries rather than for playing with pets. You only need one cheap toy to keep your pets happy, but a lot of the pretty toys are still popular.