WHY PEOPLE ARE QUITTING CS- A Discussion

[mourning dove]

i think a good way to do the old account thing would be to give them replacement names at least? or deactivate them until they’re reactivated again .. in which they’d be given an opportunity to pick a new username if it’s taken! so the name could just be changed to the account ID or something … just a thought ^_^

[melti]

honestly lost the person who said this, but considering the pound has almost near a MILLION pets, and they only release around 1k each opening? come on. im not mad, but.. come on lol.

i wasnt around for the pound event, but they should do one every year i feel like. the pound account has more than enough pets to give away 50k pets a year. also, YES, more pound openings, and less time waits.

they could also host more community driven giveaways/daily spins using pets the pound account has.

[Lokirin]

Here's the last thing I'll say as i've missed several banners just reading posts and should get back to grinding

It seems a lot of people are always close to quitting for one reason or another and it all boils down to the site's management.
There just aren't enough new things plus no opportunity to get old things. Even during one of the coolest events I've taken part in, all these people are upset enough to speak out on the hopelessness they feel while trading, the dread of seeing the site community die, and the feeling that things could improve with small, possible changes more often. I think the general consensus that has been around for years is that we need another coder.

shhhhh

last time i pointed out something that could be done code wise i got my post deleted and sent a warning by a mod

the feature, 'items i already own', was implemented later c:

combine this with rude people and i just dont generally talk as much on here anymore lol

[triangulum_mori]

Figured I'd put my two cents in, as an artist, I see clearly it is WAY easier to get high list/value pets.

If you make HQ art it is way easier to obtain high list pets through commissions, this is the way I was able to get so many valuable pets suddenly after coming back from YEARS of being inactive. Yes I now stay to collect all the monthly pets but most importantly I use this site to browse the looking for art forums to find either dreamies or USD commissions that provide for me outside of the site.

Trading is incredibly grindy and, although I obtained my first OMGSR from hard grinding trades, pretty much unfeasible for the average player. Not to mention all the younger players who will sometimes have to put up with older people deceiving them about pet values, getting overly angry over pixel trades, etc.

Anyways, the market is heavily benefiting artists with years experience in art whether it be through contests or commissions.

Maybe I should try to learn the sites art program, or participate in off-site program art honestly, I'd love to draw other people's characters and take on commissions, but the paint program here is overwhelming for me especially because it doesn't really feel mobile friendly.

FYI I cannot draw on oekaki to save my life, all my art is done on ibispaint. all that matters is that you are an artist whose work is regarded as "HQ" by at least one person with good value pets

i only get one comm every few days, and ive only gotten one VR from it, though keep in mind ive only done a handful
it just kind of feels crushing to know that you probably wont get many unless youre constantly bumping your comm thread
esp when i unknowingly broke the rules in my original one and got sent a kind of passive-aggressive message from staff (that also showed they were rooting through all of my social medias, which as a teenager, kind of makes me super damn uncomfortable) to the point where i stopped going on the site for a few days
the point is, i feel like getting rares arent as easy as you say it is. maybe for you, but not every artist, and esp considering a majority of people here arent artists, yk?

[bark]

I think a change to the pound would definitely make things a lot better in terms of accessibility to new players. As of right now, the pound has 849,438 pets. That's a lot of pets just sitting around that could go to new users that don't have any! One of the biggest problems (in my opinion) is the barrier between new players and old players, so I think making it easier to get pets from the pound could help, even if it turns out to just be a little bit of a change,

CS should hold another pound event again! (More is described here) It seems like the pound has enough pets to be adopted out.

this whole thread is so interesting, i would love to see some things listed in here come back. i was even around for this stuff and totally forgot about it. thank you for sharing!

No problem! That thread is super fun to read through. Due to the amount of pets the pound has, it's surprising the pound rush hasn't been done yet again.

[Loelya]

I would like a system implemented somehow for people like me that need things ordered to be able to get the dates changed for re release pets to fit in with their exact year.

Whether you need to use C$ or something to get that, I wouldn't mind. I don't care to change dates to try and get more trade value, I just want my collection pets to be able to have the order they're meant to be in with their dates. Because chicken smoothie has it so you're pets are ordered by the time and dates, for someone like me re-release pets aren't ones I can use, but I still want to be able to get those older pets of course.

It's more frustrating when I can't get the special release pets for that year and instead I just have a few re-release pets that will just be rotting in my trades. I honestly don't know if I'll ever be able to get any special release because I don't understand all that MA non stuff, so I just have the past two years pets unfinished (for probably forever) just because of those special release.

sadly, "rearrange pets in their groups" has been an unanswered suggestion for almost 10 years now, though it is still faithfully bumped and maintained to this day.

[CandyConstellations]

i think increased pound openings would definitely be helpful with putting more pets into circulation!! the problem for me is that my wifi is rather slow, so i don't get lucky most of the time unless if it decides to load faster some days than others. it would be nicer if they increased the adoption amounts more, even if just for once a month? it would come with the risk of dropping the pet amounts in the pound, but waiting ~6 hours have a bunch of snatched pets 0.1 seconds into the opening is. eugh.

having a monthly event like that would help boost the player numbers! even if for a bit, it'd still give users a date to put on their calendars. if that makes sense.

perhaps when they do their mid month updates!

[Artemystery]

i think they should switch the items in the item shops, theres so many permanent items, who wants those items who havent already gotten them? theres so many ppl wanting to be item artists, i feel like they can create new items for the store, or swap for older items.

[Runeliq]

I almost quit when I rejoined and started playing again. I had got free pets from those people quitting, so I decided to trade and get wishlist pets. Well one person I sent a trade to, went off on me because apparently my user had been their's in the past, and demanded that I change it. I just put in something random.. I didn't know someone else wanted to keep it theirs

[Weepy]

I don’t think inactive accounts should be deleted or the like, either username or pets, but their pets should be discounted from rarity listings. The calculator should pull from accounts that have been active within the last year so that we can get an actual idea as to how rare certain pets ACTUALLY are (there could be twenty in circulation for some of these istg). Pets with ridiculously low circulation should be weighted higher in mystery boxes so that more are added to the pool.

pretty sure this is how it works lol rarity of a pet is based on how many are on active accounts