[OOC] Wattplants General

[skinstealer]

yeah i can't imagine prickle going the NFT route- he'll probably make some Questionable site decisions, but nothing too horrible. more along the lines of like...introducing something that absolutely fucks up the economy for a bit, stuff like that. or like. lettucepocalypse from 4dopt, weird bugs/exploits that break things for a bit.

a world of their own...hm!

i do like that as well, personally! i do love the idea of a scientist...let me pitch this to you all, actually. it's a bit out there, but...

the world of wattplants has died, a long time ago. there are some survivors, but not many- and those that exist live in far reaches of the globe, communicating only via a long distance network of computers. one of those survivors managed to find a way to bring back more animals from extinction, namely from plants...and others copied their techniques, leading to the creation of different species of wattplant. whether they are sapient or not is up to the player, but they cannot communicate with their creators- leading people to both work with lore involving "oh, wattplants are taken care of by the survivors" and lore where they have their own societies, isolated from "civilization" a la warrior cats. make it kind of have wiggle room- both cases probably exist!

as for communicating with the player...i want to say it could be done via text blurbs conveying body language, with players able to visualize their own personality for their pets. this kind of reminds me of how petpets could be talked to in neopets, with a set of randomized responses- but for these, it could be controlled by hidden personality stats skewing what kind of interactions are more common. i could see this creating a very anthropomorphized reaction in players, without going fully into construct territory.

i like the books idea, especially with how it ties into this weird apocalyptic thing ive just. bullshitted out of the aether. there's less in the way of big wars or stuff like that for active events, and more just...scientific discoveries (like introducing new items, pet species, etc), disturbances in biomes, and lore that you can read through books (psypets/poppyseed pets actually has readable books too, so this isn't too out there)

i like your ideas for making money! the haggling idea is especially cute, yet another one of prickle's bold ideas that ends up being extremely clunky in practice.