make dec.18 pets original year *BUT NOT TD DONT YELL

[Lierre]

this is a good idea, but unfortunately i don't think it'd be possible because pets are sorted by their id numbers, not their adoption date. sometimes there are even true date pets that don't sit with their littermates because the pet had to be recreated for one reason or another. (you see examples of pets like this on this thread!)

i do agree it'd be awesome if their original month/year of release was easily visible on their pet page though! or if pets could be sorted by the order they are in in the archive.... that'd tank the td overvaluing overnight lol

[azza]

this is a good idea, but unfortunately i don't think it'd be possible because pets are sorted by their id numbers, not their adoption date. sometimes there are even true date pets that don't sit with their littermates because the pet had to be recreated for one reason or another. (you see examples of pets like this on this thread!)

i do agree it'd be awesome if their original month/year of release was easily visible on their pet page though! or if pets could be sorted by the order they are in in the archive.... that'd tank the td overvaluing overnight lol

probably a reeeeeally silly question but what would happen if you took the ID number of the last of a random ‘09 pet to be adopted normally, lets just say it’s 18383838, and then pasted it onto a re-release but added a decimal so it was 18383838.1? would the pet theoretically sit after that pet but before all of the seceding normal releases? what if december 18th pets went into the decimals after each of their respective, normally adopted pet’s last distributed code HAHAH sorry it’s 4am so im thinking so far beyond the realm of possibility

like i know the boxes just pop out a randomly generated, completely ‘new’ to the system pet with a whole new ID but what if instead of creating a whole ‘new’ pet they create a complete duplicate/replica of an ID that is already in the system and added another numerical variable to it as a decimal? so on december 18th, pets just keep duplicating and duplicating instead of summoning ‘new’ ones but each time there is a new duplicate generated on the 18th the decimal changes to keep the IDs unique

like how when you download multiple of the same image you have jpeg, jpeg (1), jpeg (2)

[Felicity<3]

eh, no support, sorry. I find the CS trading system complicated enough, and this feels like it'll add more factors into when deciding trades and stuff.

[Wookieinmashoo]

this is a good idea, but unfortunately i don't think it'd be possible because pets are sorted by their id numbers, not their adoption date. sometimes there are even true date pets that don't sit with their littermates because the pet had to be recreated for one reason or another. (you see examples of pets like this on this thread!)

i do agree it'd be awesome if their original month/year of release was easily visible on their pet page though! or if pets could be sorted by the order they are in in the archive.... that'd tank the td overvaluing overnight lol

probably a reeeeeally silly question but what would happen if you took the ID number of the last of a random ‘09 pet to be adopted normally, lets just say it’s 18383838, and then pasted it onto a re-release but added a decimal so it was 18383838.1? would the pet theoretically sit after that pet but before all of the seceding normal releases? what if december 18th pets went into the decimals after each of their respective, normally adopted pet’s last distributed code HAHAH sorry it’s 4am so im thinking so far beyond the realm of possibility

like i know the boxes just pop out a randomly generated, completely ‘new’ to the system pet with a whole new ID but what if instead of creating a whole ‘new’ pet they create a complete duplicate/replica of an ID that is already in the system and added another numerical variable to it as a decimal? so on december 18th, pets just keep duplicating and duplicating instead of summoning ‘new’ ones but each time there is a new duplicate generated on the 18th the decimal changes to keep the IDs unique

like how when you download multiple of the same image you have jpeg, jpeg (1), jpeg (2)

Decimals are not possible. URLS generally do not accept decimals and it would be more complicated than it's worth. Even if the URLS could be amended, there is no guarantee that the decimal character would have the pets sort correctly. It's better off we have a manual sort option for pets to sort by "archive". Unfortunately each image in the database would have to be coded a value to get them to sort properly. They may already have those values, I'm not sure, but sorting would have to acknowledge those values to get it to work. Unless there's a drag and drop system implemented like there is on dragon cave. I am not a coder, I only know some basic web design, so I don't know which one would be more complicated to make.

[Minimanta]

Support.

They could have their actual release date, Dec 18 as normal and below that they could have their original release date. Would make scamming a whole lot more difficult if newbies know they don't just have a random newborn on their hands.
And with their rerelease date still visible people can still tell it's a rerelease for those who care.

Unfortunately that's not gonna fix the sorting issue as others have stated above. Personally I still naively wait for the day when we can sort pets as we wish in our groups. No standard "sort by _blank_" just "you go there and you go there", a girl can hope.

[Felicity<3]

Actually, wouldn' that just make a whole new way for people to scam-? Like, scamming newbies who dont know the italic date and asterics thing by trading them a RR for a TD or some.

[Calaco]

Actually, wouldn' that just make a whole new way for people to scam-? Like, scamming newbies who dont know the italic date and asterics thing by trading them a RR for a TD or some.

That is a good point but even just selling them a RR for a TD is better than giving them an uncommon monthly for an expensive pet ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Minimanta]

Actually, wouldn' that just make a whole new way for people to scam-? Like, scamming newbies who dont know the italic date and asterics thing by trading them a RR for a TD or some.

Not if it says "original release date" rather than simply having a date in italics.

[Felicity<3]

Actually, wouldn' that just make a whole new way for people to scam-? Like, scamming newbies who dont know the italic date and asterics thing by trading them a RR for a TD or some.

That is a good point but even just selling them a RR for a TD is better than giving them an uncommon monthly for an expensive pet ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

true true

Actually, wouldn' that just make a whole new way for people to scam-? Like, scamming newbies who dont know the italic date and asterics thing by trading them a RR for a TD or some.

Not if it says "original release date" rather than simply having a date in italics.

yeah! this is better

[thesims2]

as a ninja victim in 2013, supporting at least something being implemented for dec 18 pets reflecting their true date counterpart!!