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Yukio's Suggestions to Neopets
As a player, I've encountered areas which I believe could be improved on Neopets.
The most current ones are listed below.
New Features
*** Guild Vs. Guild Contests. Added 6th December 2003
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Guilds were a great idea to Neopets. Unfortunately it is not achieving its goals
I believe it was initially created to achieve. This is because there is no
drawback card for players to actively participate in guild activities. Adding a
guild vs. guild contests, i.e. allowing guilds to attack another guild for
increased status - which can have benefits such as automatic guild funds that
can only be spent on upgrading guild walls, space, land etc would add another
dimension to Neopets which would be an additional engrossing experience (this
also leads to another game on Neopets, similar in fashion to already
existing online games such as Utopia http://www.swirve.com/utopia
and Dominion http://www.kamikazegames.com/dominion).
These games already draw in thousands of players and are extremely popular, and
adding something like this to Neopets, possibly using Neopets guilds as a base
to build on would cater for the 'leet' players and would incorporate strategy
into an otherwise straightforward game. A feature like this would also cater for
an older generation of players.
*** Freeze Reason Pages. Added 6th December 2003 ***
Neopets is inundated with "Why am I unfrozen?!!?" emails. If multiple
pages with the most common reasons could be coded into the system which allows a
Neopets Monitor to select to reason why the account is being frozen, these pages
could be used to show up on userlookups which have been frozen. For example,
instead of a 'this account has been frozen' page, it could be 'this account has
been frozen for scamming' or 'this account has been frozen for cheating in flash
games'. This would clear up a significant amount of emails which would allow
email staff to better spend time on issues which require their time rather than
wasting time replying to emails which are all essentially the same - "Why
am I frozen??!!?"
*** Upgradeable Battledome Items. Added 6th December
2003 ***
Throwing in extra elements into the battledome would result in more fun no
doubt. Adding in a specific ultra rare item, which can only be found via random
events, that would be needed to "harden" (make stronger - increase
weapon level) would result in a more strategy driven battle experience. I
believe the current setup (set weapons - set damages) is too straight forward
and too boring. Adding weapon levels also creates user pride in their own items.
Weapon levels can be done in various ways. For example, attempting to increase a
weapon level comes at a risk, as the weapon can break. The playing field can
also be leveled, by making it more expensive to upgrade HT artifacts than normal
weapons.
Improvement on Existing Features
*** Neodecks 'My Card' View. Added 6th December 2003
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The neocards are categorized into rarities such as green, yellow, black or gold.
Once placed in the deck, there is no indication as what the rarity is. Placing a
small text under each card informing the owner what rarity exists would be a
great feature!
*** Fixing the 'Neopets monitors are biased hypocrites'
mentality. Added 6th December 2003 ***
There needs to be some indication that they are not. Accounts are being frozen
haywire here, there, everywhere and implementing a "Freeze Reason
Page" (above) would help. This would also be inline with 'customer support'
or 'public relations' issues. As the staff are inundated with emails, the
'Freeze Reason Page' suggestion above would help rectify time issues allowing
more time to be able to be spent on important matters and to show players that
their questions and concerns are heard.
If a person cannot be unfrozen because a Neopets monitor must go by what the
account records show, then educate the member before the member contacts the
monitor by creating such pages on Neopets about unfreezing and such.
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