New Pound System?

[Pokadottie]

Has anyone seen the new Pound system?

What do you think of it?

Pros? Cons?

Do you think it will now be easier or harder to get a good pet?

[Shadows]

I wish that all the pets opened...

[Pokadottie]

I think I agree with you... It's a bit frustrating.

[abstruse.]

I guess it's just something to get used to.

I think it's updated so that there's not always that mad rush when all of the pets are displayed. ;D

[Pokadottie]

I agree, and it definitly makes sense... it just seems that the chance of getting a really good pet is much slimmer now.

[BlissfulFarrago]

Huh? Whut? I missed the Pound opening. Someone please describe? :3

[Mara.]

Huh? Whut? I missed the Pound opening. Someone please describe? :3

The pound has a new system. =3 It displays a number of random pets every 30 seconds or so instead of leaving them all open at once. So there is about 10 or so you can view at once instead of the whole pages and the page of pets changes to another page of random pets every 30 seconds. ^^
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I sort of like it. It is easier, but bad to people with slow internet connection. I have to say, though, I got better pets with this new system than I ever could with the old one. x3

[Wavesong]

It won't be first come first serve anymore aha XD;
Wish you all luck, because that's what this new system is based on!

[Khemo]

I've been able to catch it twice on the new system so far. What I noticed:

First time: I had loading problems. :< Baaw. AND there was a rare on that page. But other than that, I dealt with random selections, some loading issues, and was a little late with what I wanted so I didn't snag it.

Then second time around I notice what I did for the first one after a while: All the pets I tried to avoid pages of in the old system pop up in the new one. Over and over. I also look at the amount of pets in the pound, and see it dropping by lower increments the longer it's open. It gets me wondering if rarer pets are offered at first, or there's just so many people stalking the pound vs. the amount released that time which determines it.

But my biggest issue with the new system is that I'm stalking for much longer. Old system, pound trip was about 10 minutes, sometimes less. I spent about half an hour yesterday refreshing selections of pets. xD And since I kept getting the same pets over and over when there was a bit over 200 left in the pound, I started to suspect that the rarers were somehow thrown into the random selections first. (Of they get picked up that quickly.)

I have no clue, but it's going to be a lot of trial and error before I get used to it. The pages do tend to load faster for me, that's for sure.

[Nick]

The random selections are truly random. The rares will go more quickly simply because more people want to adopt rares.. .

Keeping the pound open for longer was actually a design goal. More people get to see it open..