[OOC] Wattplants General

[King-Clod]

Ok! a bit late to this, but, thoughts

I was a big neopets fan growing up, so I'm probably leaning towards more of a neopets vibe, though, I hope Wattplants doesn't go down the same route Neopets has in-universe


4) what kind of world do we want to have for this? what kind of setting, what kind of overall vibe? how much of a focus on story is there? what do people make up fanon-wise in-universe?

What I loved about Neopets most of all was that...the entire world was theirs. Their lore, the important figures, all neopets. A whole Neopet society, run by neopets, for neopets. It was technically a petsite in mechanics, but beyond playing for, feeding, and having your pets in the battledome, they were sorta their own little guys. They had their own taste in food, books, etc, and that's something I'd love to see in this. Like if Wattplants came up on their own out of the ground, no intervention. Though, it does kinda clash with what's been set up so far, and with typical petsites, so I get if you don't want to go that direction.

I do think it'd be fun if the Wattplants were wholly their own people, and less so pets. Who can make comments on things and the like. And who's personalities may be more of an annoyance to some players.

6) is there a story to wattplants? how well does the site upkeep lore? how messy is it?

I also loved the in-depth lore and events that Neopets had that ended up causing lasting effects to the map, like when the Fairyland fell from the sky and never...really returned to the sky. Or like the one area that's in eternal war? I love having a world that seems too vast to know every bit of, and while they don't do lore on neopets as much any more (and more NFTs rip) I love how varied it is. I love the one time events, and ideas that were intended for the phone app that never happened so they're just unaccesible islands in the sea. Ideas that had a lot of heart that ended up being limited or breaking, along with the indepth lore. Clashes a bit with the minimal lore before lore was added later idea though.

Maybe there was always lore, in like, in universe books and stuff? that people didn't know about/didn't read, then got upset when it didn't match what they thought up? Not sure.

7) what kinds of ways do you make money on the site itself? obviously im not implementing any actual games or anything but itd be interesting to give characters something to complain talk about. how are items earned? what is the economy like (if there is one)?

Neopets does minigames and item shops, though, many of the minigames broke because of flash, rip. I'm trying to think of what other websites do as well...though I keep coming back to minigames and item shops. It'd be fun if there was a haggling system like in neopets, but maybe on Wattplants you can use it on player shops as well? And there was a lot of discourse on that before it was removed.

Honestly... not part of any of the questions, but I think a fun thing I could steal from 4dopts a little would be stats. But more uniform for all the pets. Maybe it's like Petz in that it affects their personality as well, leaving a wide range for how snarky your pet is, but maybe some stats could make them better at haggling! Who knows!