avaloafe wrote:Darkcloud! wrote:
Honestly, ban the bot. That's the solution. Players should get on the site, look in the pound group themselves. Traffic to the pound shouldn't be driven by automation, it should be a natural reward of logging onto the site and checking the page, and setting yourself a timer if the page is giving a time til open. If they really want a reminder, subscribe to the thread that post the pound pets group breakdown as they post whenever the group gets refilled in preparation for the pound. Use the site, not bots.
keep the bot. i’m not chronically online all the time and cannot continuously check this website. i am an adult with a house and full time job, so i love being reminded automatically when it’s close to the pound opening. AND the lost and found for that matter. i’m only on this site these days for pet collection. i’m sure a lot of others are too. there’s nothing wrong with coming on just for the pound, and then logging off again. there’s absolutely no harm in that. :) the pound bot does literally NOTHING besides give reminders (which is also good for banners during events) and give an image of what rare+ pets are in the next opening. that is something EVERYONE can do by looking at the pounds profile and viewing pets ^^
you also CANT ban the bot. it isn’t made by CS admins/apart of CS in a way. it’s made by an individual user. so even if cs mods take away being able to see the next pet opening, the bot will still remind us that it’s opening soon. :3
I'm pretty sure there's a way for CS to protect/hide whatever code the bot is pulling to make the announcements, and force the creator to enter it manually. Or disallow site scraping- other pet sites do so.
I'm in the same group as you. I don't make every pound, and it's fine. The pound should be a natural reward for participating in visiting the site whenever you do (on your phone, or on your computer). I see a lot of people on this thread arguing that new players need to study the pets and learn pets, which is time consuming too.
In order to appease everyone, there should be no offsite resources used for advantages in the pound. Everyone should only catch the pounds they would naturally run into, and all pets should have to be viewed manually by players who want to know the values.