With me no longer being a part of staff, I see this as an opportunity to maybe stir up some input from the community. Remember that I'm now basically a member like anyone else here, except with some behind the scenes privileges. But I no longer have access to the Mod area, and I no longer have the ability to discuss things with the team.
That being said, I think there's things we could suggest and/or implement if users got to give input on it. It's different when things are discussed between staff, than when things are features or concepts that the community — the people the staff should be working for — actually wants to see.
That being said; does anyone have any comments and/or suggestions on the potions currently available? Maybe you want more Ballama-like potions? Maybe you want potions to be better and more useful? Do you want something to be tweaked just a bit?
I find potions to be an interesting asset of Evelon, and being able to use them more and/or tweak them feels important to me.
That being said, here's my own major suggestion:
Make the Impel Liquor become an instant-growth potion.
As it stands, the potion shortens the amount of time it takes for babies to grow from 5-7 days to 1-2 days. Sure, it sounds nice in theory...
Thing is though, with the way the breeding system is right now, this potion is literally useless and basically wasted:
- Babies usually grow within 4-6 days. Long gone are the days when staff would wait an actual 7 days to grow babies;
- Staff actually has a rule that if a litter is done after too long a period of time, then the babies will be grown much faster to compensate for the wait;
- If the potion makes babies grow within 1-2 days... why is staff wasting their time with baby forms? The staff is the first party to mention how they don't have any time to do anything, and yet with this opportunity, they keep making baby forms just for the sake of 24 hours;
- As an artist, I've actually refunded an Impel Liquor before because the breeding had been sitting for God knows how long; rendering the potion completely worthless, since at that point, I just gave the breeder grown babies.
If breeding were a true focus — which it isn't, since Evelon is about RPing, not breeding — then maybe the Impel would have a bit more purpose with its current feature; but as it stands, it's a worthless potion. Making it that the babies grow instantly saves time for the staff and avoids more waiting on the part of the breeders.
That's my current suggestion. Any one else got anything they'd like to see? Personally I wouldn't mind more potions with little floaty spirits, though that's a relatively big project. Also not sure how popular things like the Ballama are?
Anyhow. Comment and discuss!