I cant adopt Dec. 18th pets? Im new.

[nickjr]

Glad to see you'll stick around! You could introduce yourself in this board; a lot of people check that board and can give you some more tips and advice on getting started with CS

[TacoTacoXD]

Glad to see you'll stick around! You could introduce yourself in this board; a lot of people check that board and can give you some more tips and advice on getting started with CS

I definitely will!! Thanks

[Aethubryn]

The analogy is more like "15 out of 20 kids had identical free response answers on this test (and all of you forgot to put your names on your tests), so now all of you lose recess"

OK if you wanna go with THAT analogy - you've got to add that right before asking the free response question, the teacher had everyone say what present they wanted for the holidays. Then immediately asked, "what is your favorite holiday activity?"

It's called priming. The kids will be thinking about that awesome thing they want, so they're more likely to reply "open presents" when asked what their favorite holiday activity is.

And in the case of chickensmoothie - well, family and friends get together around this time of year, and people are going to talk about chickensmoothie giving away super awesome pets now, or maybe people will walk in on a user collecting their stuff on here and ask "hey what's that?" Then, if they have any interest at all in pet sites/adopts/etc, they're likely to join. Whereas normally during the year, Chickensmoothie is probably not really brought up all that often in normal conversation, nor is there a natural opportunity to "spread" it to your loved ones you don't get to see often.

I mean I've been friends with someone I met through a different pet site for over a year now. Obviously we both like this sort of thing. It NEVER came up until we got together on the 17th that she even had a chickensmoothie account, and it only came up because she was checking stuff here and mentioned excitedly about the 18th being a special day for rares.

I decided to give it a try solely because of that conversation, and because I now knew that there was an opportunity to "catch up" a bit to all the older players. All that initial excitement I had to see if maybe I could snag something really great and start my game here off with a bang - it's gone. I'm basically just checking back to this thread on the very rare chance that perhaps someone in charge will see it and re-think their policy, because it IS unfair to legitimate new users.

[TacoTacoXD]

I agree. I don't think it is fair to new users. I mean if someone joins in October/November can they still not get that pet cause its considered cheating.?? Thays what ive wondered. Like i get people creating account ON the the day Dec 18th. But i would hate if someone created there account a month or two and had to wait even longer than a year

[Burrito Bunny]

I agree. I don't think it is fair to new users. I mean if someone joins in October/November can they still not get that pet cause its considered cheating.?? Thays what ive wondered. Like i get people creating account ON the the day Dec 18th. But i would hate if someone created there account a month or two and had to wait even longer than a year

The restriction only applies to accounts made immediately before and on the 18th. Accounts from October, November and even early December were able to adopt. This restriction is necessary because a ton of multiacounts are made on December 18th each year. You will be able to adopt the pets next year.

It's not a just few users who make multi accounts either - Its the majority of these new accounts. I'm sorry that you felt left out, but please understand it is necessary for staff. Already we are swamped with reports and help tickets. Allowing all these cheating accounts to adopt would only create an inhuman amount of work for us.

The oppertunity will be available next year. In the mean time you can check the free adoption board where older players are giving out pets. Watching it carefully and frequently checking it can score you pets better than what you would have likely received on the 18th: viewforum.php?f=22