Equine Transformation Project - VOTING CLOSED

[wye]

I personally feel that it would be a big shame to update the old horses. I understand the reasons, but I feel that they are so beautiful and a lot of time an effort has been put into them, it wold not be right to change them.

I do LOVE the new drafts though.

[Dirtie]

Overall I would love this to happen. But, like most people, there are certain pets that - to me - wouldn't have the same appeal in the new lineart. And as of yet, I'm not actually sure that a total revamp would be worth losing these beautiful pets.

So far the only way all of us can get our way is the proposed idea of being able to choose lineart yourself. I have this mock up of how it could be done:


The idea is if you click [change], you will be able to choose between Equimagine's original lineart and the new, revamped lineart by Yulynh.

I understand if this is too much of a hassle to do, but in my opinion it's the best option available.

[sapiosexual]

Overall I would love this to happen. But, like most people, there are certain pets that - to me - wouldn't have the same appeal in the new lineart. And as of yet, I'm not actually sure that a total revamp would be worth losing these beautiful pets.

So far the only way all of us can get their way is the proposed idea of being able to choose lineart yourself. I have this mock up of how it could be done:


The idea is if you click [change], you will be able to choose between Equimagine's original lineart and the new, revamped lineart by Yulynh.

I understand if this is too much of a hassle to do, but in my opinion it's the best option available.

This exactly, especially since so many people have suggested it so far.

[slug]

I would be sad if you changed the design for all of them cause I simply love the linearts and would hate to see them die out

[stxrdog]

do the ones we have get updated if you do start to update them?
you could always make new items for the old designs and just the old designs!

[delani]

I feel like the detail on the examples is amazing and I would love to see more of our horses like that. It would also help tremendously with my pony hoard by being able to hoard them all instead of just the new ones. The new draft lines are gorgeous as well and I'd love to start seeing them around. However, I am a little caught up with a few of them. Some of them I hoard just because of the way they look now, and I'm not positive if I would like them on the new lines.

I really, really like the idea about being able to choose. If there was simply an option, sort of like the one where you can change if the rarities show up in your groups so that you view the old lines if preferred... I feel like that might become complicated however. For example in the "Fun Ways to Use Items" thread, I feel like this version-changing might not work. Would people view the pets as the version they have, or as the other version? This might mess up how people view the items on the pets. If one person sees a new lineart pony with new lineart pony items, then would the people viewing the old version see the old version of that pony with random items all around? Sorry to use such a weird example.

[kibbleeCat]

I honestly don't think you should! I mean, what makes equimagine lines so special: that fact that they aren't around anymore! And plus, how would she feel if all her designs and lines were just gone? Not so good huh? I have quite a few equimagine horses, and I love them because they aren't like any other horses or ponies on chicken smoothie! However, the new draft lines are quite nice.

[slug]

I honestly don't think you should! I mean, what makes equimagine lines so special: that fact that they aren't around anymore! And plus, how would she feel if all her designs and lines were just gone? Not so good huh? I have quite a few equimagine horses, and I love them because they aren't like any other horses or ponies on chicken smoothie! However, the new draft lines are quite nice.

I Agree with that

[tawnypelt3]

I kind of don't want the old lines converted over, because it takes out some of the specialty of owning these horses. Now, instead of being unique, they'll look like all of the rest of the horses. I do like the new draft horse lines, though I am still quite fond of the old ones. I just wanted to say that even though the official value of these horses and ponies will stay the same, value will go down in my eyes and maybe in some other user's eyes too.

^^^^^ You, my friend, make some excellent points.


I like them the way they are. I always have. Changing them would, as DangerousSmile said, take all of their "specialness" away. I also feel it would be sort of a diss to Equimagine for their work all those years ago to just be wiped away.

Yeah, the items don't really fit on them all that well, but that is not something that concerns me as much as losing the actual linearts does. They're history now, important history that I never want to see fade away, especially simply because "the items don't fit." They're special, they're important, they mean something. At least, they do to me.

As someone who owns old lineart horses, draft horses and ponies, and as someone who adopted them herself and watched them grow, it would pretty much devastate me to see them changed. They wouldn't be the same. It would be as though they were taken away from me and replaced with poor imitators, someone cruelly telling me, "They're exactly the same, but better."

They wouldn't be the same. I would hate to lose a single one of my precious equines. I own every single draft horse, every single Equi horse but ONE, and am missing merely four ponies. I love them all. Changing them would be a nightmare for me.

[Tess]

I feel like the detail on the examples is amazing and I would love to see more of our horses like that. It would also help tremendously with my pony hoard by being able to hoard them all instead of just the new ones. The new draft lines are gorgeous as well and I'd love to start seeing them around. However, I am a little caught up with a few of them. Some of them I hoard just because of the way they look now, and I'm not positive if I would like them on the new lines.

I really, really like the idea about being able to choose. If there was simply an option, sort of like the one where you can change if the rarities show up in your groups so that you view the old lines if preferred... I feel like that might become complicated however. For example in the "Fun Ways to Use Items" thread, I feel like this version-changing might not work. Would people view the pets as the version they have, or as the other version? This might mess up how people view the items on the pets. If one person sees a new lineart pony with new lineart pony items, then would the people viewing the old version see the old version of that pony with random items all around? Sorry to use such a weird example.

Yes, if we implemented a "click to change type" button, it would look really odd if you saw someone else's pony which had been dressed up in a different display setting to the one you're using. This is one reason why we'd prefer not to implement something like that, it gets confusing when 2 people view the same pet and see something different.

On the other hand if changing the pet display changed the view for EVERYONE you'd have other problems, with it appearing that there were 2 completely separate pets existing on the site since you could put them side by side and have each one displaying a different version. We would not offer that, since it could be confusing in trading, having 1 outcome appearing as 2 different pets.