WHY PEOPLE ARE QUITTING CS- A Discussion

[onion]

i like the idea of a login reward but how would that work for people that stay eternally logged in like me? :0 just wondering haha!

[lady beneviento]

“Some people are so beyond greedy”

Alright but how are new players supposed to get old pets without being “greedy”

I don't think this is what they're talking about.
I think they are referring to asking for a higher-value pet just because the rock has "demand" currently/is hard to find.

agreed. for any new players who may be following this thread, "banner" pets (the rock and the snakes from this event) are never above a rare, and you can usually snag a fair trade later into the event when the hype dies down. don't let anybody talk you into paying an arm and a leg for one. this becomes especially relevant in Halloween events, where banner pet demand is actually insane. I remember auctions with insane amounts of C$ and older rares just for one banner pet. however, i do think this is because it is so hard to trade for older pets to begin with, people will take advantage of high demand pets to try to get a foot in the door so to speak, which is understandable but contributing to the nightmare issue that is trading in general nowadays.

[Lavish ❀ Lioness]

Every time I see someone say their only goal is to have a complete CS collection, my soul dies a little bit LMAO

Tbh me too. Like I want to collect every (non-store) snake but that's bc I genuinely like the snake design. CS is supposed to be fun not stressful! It's v disheartening seeing a lot of people complain about not getting rares from a pound drop in the CS server I'm in. Y'all got a cool looking pet, why so down?

And the snake lineart is recent!! Imagine wanting to collect all the Malk pets? Forget about it I'm like two precious lions away from a complete collection AND I KNOW YOU ALL CAN GUESS WHAT TWO THOSE ARE LMAO

[Light Bringer]

Log in incentives would absolutely boost activity! Especially if you're able to get a sweet pet or item at the end of it. I don't mean EVERY DAY log ins because people do have lives and are busy but something to try and achieve. Maybe even 1C$ every few days or weeks to help battle the currency situation and give those with no income a chance to get C$

Unfortunately i feel as though something like that would further diminish the value of C$ and make it even harder for most players, apart from the ones with tens of thousands of C$ to throw around.

[Venøm]

Actually a limit on having extremely rare pets would help battle the circulation issue. Stopping players from having more than say 3 of the same super rare pet would help stop inflation from people hoarding.

Also suggesting a set of nick store pets with all profits going directly to Nick!

[Purgatory K9]

Just wanted to add in this post from the thread I linked a couple pages back. Lacuna mentioned that they are taking some of the ideas from that thread into thoughts.

[xiaojun]

let’s say we can all agree on something, not to be rude and, nick is a wonderful coder but we need another one.

definitely!! it seems like a large reason why suggestions go unanswered/unimplemented is a severe lack of manpower! more hands on deck is nothing but a good thing in a case where there is one sole coder for a site…

[melti]

i like the idea of a login reward but how would that work for people that stay eternally logged in like me? :0 just wondering haha!

just a wild guess, maybe just a login reward that resets every rollover, regardless if you stay logged in or not. i guess that idea makes sense aha, im pretty out if it so my apologies if it doesnt

[blues clues]

Actually a limit on having extremely rare pets would help battle the circulation issue. Stopping players from having more than say 3 of the same super rare pet would help stop inflation from people hoarding.

Also suggesting a set of nick store pets with all profits going directly to Nick!

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[Ryugetsu]

Stumbled across this thread, and I see some people are speaking about similar topics that have been discussed and some have had mod responses! I strongly recommend sifting through this thread. :)

This is excellent, thank you for linking this! I'm going to quote Lacuna here so everyone can see what she said.

Hey, just wanted to pop in because I'm seeing some things discussed that we are actually doing, but you might have missed the news about! A lot of these changes were based on suggestions given here or in other similar threads, so I do want you to know we are listening. However, it can be hard to do anything with posts like "the overall community doesn't trade in a way that's welcoming" because there isn't much we can do about people who are asking high value for things or not being as nice and understanding as you wish they would be. Of course, if people call you names, attempt to mislead you about values, or are actively hostile we can and do deal with that when we get reports (and please do submit those reports!), but it will honestly have to be the initiative of a lot of people to be kinder overall or a large movement of people agreeing to compress the value structure. Us trying to do that artificially probably wouldn't work, and that's nearly the same reason we don't have a CS endorsed value list or a moderator who answers trade value questions (as their answers would then be taken as fact, and we don't want that). We are leaving this thread open to discussion, but please remember to be as constructive as you can.

Anyway:

- An older one, but we implemented mid-month updates with a featured dress up, and standardized our rarity updates to coincide with those updates.
- Most know, but newer users may not: We used to just release bi-monthly store pets and very occasional new permanent store items. We implemented monthly rotating store birthstone items and bi-monthly rotating limited store items in an attempt to keep the C$ economy circulating. I hope we'll be able to add more permanent items soon but that's not something I have explicit control over!
- We have celebrated a lot more small holidays recently, and we do have a staff chat/thread with plans for more. If there is interest, perhaps we could have a suggestion thread just for small holiday releases, separate from simple pet/item design suggestions? I would especially love this for lesser-known holidays that might have a cultural food component or something similar to our past Eid release, and to keep any suggestions together so threads do not have to be bumped as much. Let me know and I can probably make that this weekend if so! Do remember though that an extra release every week is probably not in the cards, that is a lot of work and our artists would probably get burnt out quickly.
- There were some comments about Pride Month specifically, we have celebrated it with free pride flag item releases two years in a row (you can get them here as well as multiple pride litters. I personally have been making a yearly pride month litter for even longer than that.

Onto newer stuff:

- We held a poll and comment thread to discuss CS Sponsered writing comeptitions and when we received good feedback, we implemented them. There were also a lot of affirmative results for more competition types, and I hope we can introduce those soon because the writing contest doesn't seem to be the perfect solution, as there haven't been a huge number of entries.

- We held another poll here to get user input on our New Year's release, and (credit to Aaron I believe) even tallied the comments to show that cat was one of the top favored species to make that change. That pet was released! I hope we can add more user input in this way in the future as well.

I just want to reiterate that we are listening and doing our best! I was very excited that we were able to release Dark Mode as part of the Summer Event, as I know that's something people have been asking for for ages. I have also directly suggested merch and that is something a lot of the moderators would love to see in the future too!