Apologies if this has already been mentioned, I checked the thread and couldn't find anything regarding the age minimum for pets.
I'm not sure if having the age minimum being 30 days old to explore is very user-friendly to new users who join, want eggs to hatch, but can't obtain them because they have no pets to explore with. (Unless new players get a free creatu or something? please correct me if i'm wrong.)
possible ways to counter or balance this could be:
a) rental creatu.
a new npc who lets you borrow or use a creatu for a gil fee. perhaps there's different tiers of creatu that will come back with 1, 2 or 3 items depending on how much you pay or how many food/health items you equip to this rental creatu.
this would need to be affordable for newbies, and by the time you have or can afford an adult creatu, the rental creatu would be no better than your own.
a restriction could be that you can only have 1 rental creatu at a time to avoid people just using 4 rentals to explore, if you feel this is necessary.
I want to emphasise that these rental creatu would hold no benefits over regular adult creatu with base stats, so it would still encourage users to own one themselves.
this npc could also double as a quest giver- requiring specific meats or plants so they can feed their rental creatu properly?
b) remove age restriction
but include different "weaknesses" the younger the creatu is. perhaps a young creatu can only carry 1 ob
ject as a baby, 2 as a teen, until its older- or maybe it can't 'learn' pacing strategies until they're more mature, and levels intuition more slowly. this would allow newbies to explore straight away, instead of waiting 30 days to be able to access what seems like will be a key feature of res.
if exploring truly will replace the traditional pop-up events of obtaining eggs, i think having the age limitation of 30 days locks new players out of this feature. this is a pet site after all, and it would be unfortunate for newbies to realize they can't obtain new pets very easily and leave not long after joining.
I know there are other ways to obtain eggs & pets, like trash isthmus & atqueen forest, but this seems like its going to be replacing the *main* way to obtain eggs. everyone should be able to access it.
edit:: this would also potentially help with candle usage, where if a user was a resident of reiflem and wanted to use the atquati candle, they wouldn't have to have an aged 30 creatu from atquati to explore and find new eggs. this seems especially difficult for new users to achieve with the current restrictions.
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