EmilineRose wrote:Does anyone have any advice for making a checkered hoard? I've never done one before, but I want to try. It's just about the pet ID numbers right?
yes!! i love checkered hoards and have a few! for me the easiest way to do it is to trade for a small surplus of outcomes (i tend to do checkered hoards of 15 and trade for around 20 to have extras to time swap for), and then arrange as many as you can to fit the pattern and timeswap for the extras. i've found the easiest way for me personally is to have the main group with all the pets that fit my theme, and then a separate group for timeswaps. the ID numbers are a Lot of numbers and my brain doesn't mess with that too well, so i usually go by the pet adopted date. if you hover the adopted date of a pet it'll tell you the exact time they were born! i also think it's easier for people to check their own pets that way. i do a combo of asking for date swaps / sending out trades for more to get more date options. being flexible helps - sometimes you'll get a lower outcome and your group will start on a diff outcome than u were thinking ;p
last thing i'd say in my Wall of Text is: depending on the outcomes/how many sit in a group, you may need to give them special names to checker. if there's only 4 that easily sit in a line
like these ponies they will end up striped not checkered. if you give them all special names
like these mice then you can play around with how many fit in a row / you can checker!
tldr;
1. trade for a few extra outcomes
2. organize and figure out what dates to swap for
3. use a spare group and rename the pets to the time/id you want and post that in the
date and id swap thread4. don't be afraid to send out swap requests! most people are super nice or just don't understand why you wanna swap but still accept, haha
