WEEEE

So pretty, I love my tealy blue-green sproot <3

Myla

Can we expect the threads to be unlocked again soonish? :D

Tsaiah OH YEAH I meant to do that last night!  Gimme a few secs :D

Edit: Unlocked!  Roleplays can continue!

Wished it was a wee bit more blue, but I’m so relieved I got a cool tone one! Love oregoncoast’s color!

Myla
awe!! i really appreciate that! ♥ ♥

Myla
gonna be honest here… that’s actually really arbitrary and disappointing, since drifts “looking nice” is so much up to personal preference (for example, all these yellow-neon-green flowers floating around, a lot of people seem pretty keen to be rid of them.) at least if you’d left the entire color wheel in, people wouldve had more potential colors to choose from. :<

i know it can’t exactly be changed now, i’m just… sad about it, i guess. i was hoping for a warmer-colored sprout, and i know i can drift it but it would’ve been nice to find a trade instead.

Gonna echo the above posts. Maybe those hues WOULDN’T look good, but someone like me would take a red or an orange over a pukey yellow-green haha. Plus I’m sure there’d be someone out there who did genuinely enjoy the colors.

Plus I love seeing a bunch of different colors when I flip through the coat’s tab and without the reds and stuff it’s a lot more boring. Obviously that’s a personal problem, but I’m still sad :<

(edit: I edited my post here because I originally called the reason “trivial”, but I think that’s just how I see it, and it’s probably pretty non-trivial to other people who didn’t want the ruddy-coloured pets).

Is this the first time random prize mechanics have been manipulated? Was it done with EoLs or other stuff before?

Myla I’m not too worried about the choice to select colors out of the mix (maybe next time also snag a bit out of the yellow-green drifts/a few more shades of green) and I know you usually don’t take suggestions but!!! Maybe for the next drifty pet in the far future, it could arrive with the actual drift button? :0 That’d be really neat I think, and with the effort you’d have to put in with an event like the RP event, I think it’d be a neat little thing!

In the meantime I’m eagerly scooping up as many unwanted babies as I can… I Love…........

When designing a coat, our artists use their experience, judgement, and often touch upon color theory in order to design a color palette for the coat. Typically we release coats with one available color scheme, although this time we released several ranges of colors. As with any pet, if you would like to experiment with unreleased hues, you are welcome to use a driftshroom.

Jacq There has been exactly one other time in which we have released pets in multiple colors, which was the Essence of Love. In that instance, the coat was designed with all possible hues in mind, so we drew from the entire hue spectrum in the initial release.

Jacq Unless I’m missing something (I am admittedly tired), she did answer your question. The only way they manipulated this at all was just to exclude certain hues - this manipulation type would only have been an option with the essence of love pets (and mabel, of course, but mabel is designed like the EoL). She said they specifically designed those to work with all hues, so they included all hues in their release - thus, didn’t withhold any colors.

I think it might be best to see how the final coat looks. There might be edits in the baby or adult forms that aren’t hinted at in its flower form that might clash terribly in those excluded hues - and while that might be desirable to the right people, it also potentially puts users that get them in a really difficult position where they might find it incredibly aesthetically displeasing and have a very difficult time trading it for the colors that don’t clash. Those users could feel like they were cheated in a way - they worked on the event to get the pet, only to have it grow into something like they can’t stand looking at just because their drift doesn’t work well, and can’t even get a trade for because only a handful of users would be interested in oddball color combos.

Diglett
Yeah you’re right. I think I might be over-sensitive and reading too much into the responses on this point.

My question was “Is this the first time random prize mechanics have been manipulated?” - and I didn’t receive a yes or a no - just reassurance that, in the specific case of the EoLs, they used all hues. I didn’t read that as necessarily meaning that none of them were “rerolled” for any user for any reason - nor did I read it as a reassurance that the site hasn’t previously manipulated the random mechanics for other prizes.

So I’m just gonna step back and think about this a little bit more, I think, and try to give more benefit of the doubt.

Jigawatta
Although it will be possible to continue playing this adventure for a couple of weeks (up until Glitch begins working on the system again, and the existing mechanics break), it isn’t possible to earn prizes for doing so. This is because the crystals and sprout were intended as prizes for the event, which ran from February 17th to March 11th. At this point all threads that existed as of the 11th have been marked, and prizes delivered in the usual manner (i.e: sent directly to the eligible accounts), allowing us to unlock the event forum for those who want to finish up their roleplays for fun. However, since the event itself has ended and we will not be marking any further threads, no further prizes can be earned for continuing this adventure.

Can I just say how cute I think these are? ;-; The crystal shards on the cheeks remind me of cat whiskers for some reason. xD And the super long tail and hair are super pretty!

I came here to say the same thing, Miku—omg, are they adorable!

And they totally look like kelphkittens xD

Shima this was posted earlier in the thread by bone monster, if that’s what you’re looking for!
edit OH…. unless you meant the babies XD sorry IGNORE ME…..

Shima

AH yes now I see why certain drifts were locked LMAO

^ That’s kind of rude to people who might like those colours. The peacock spider coat has a similar palette, and even though lots of people don’t like it, it still has its fans.

edit:
I also quite like this one, which was likewise locked out. Different strokes for different folks, right? Or maybe, different shades for different babes B)

(different shades for different beyblades? beyblades are what the cool kids are into, right?)

^^

Yeah, I think it looks pretty cool honestly. Looks like rust and faded bone.

I really love that drift, actually, it looks super swampy and cool. I wonder if anyone’s got it for sale…

EDIT: just heard from a friend that it’s locked out of that color, dang

Not trying to be sassy, but was the drifted aspect of the coat like an afterthought?
Myla said the essence of love was designed with all possible hues in mind, so why wasn’t this one? And after showing the preview of the flowers in all the colours, it just seemed unfair to cut out a chunk of colours. I personally adore the red drift!

I can’t wait to see them all grow<3 And I hope I can get my hands on one!

I definitely think the browns that were locked out are more niche than the colors that they did end up releasing, so there might’ve been a complaint either way, haha.

Anyways, at least it’s possible to manually drift to the colors that were locked. One day, Swamp Ketchup Color…one day…

Ah, the drift Kippie posted is actually so perfect for one of my characters haha. Maybe one day

I also super love the one Jacq posted, now I wish I could afford a bunch of driftshrooms and pets lkajlkdj