Allow Datable Decors to Still Show Wolf Applied To

Allow Datable Decors to Still Show Wolf Applied To
Posted 2025-02-20 21:45:28 #1468899 Bit late in February this year for this suggestion, but I honestly thought this would have already been suggested, only to find it hasn't after a search. Not really sure if this is too close to an older suggestion (it is not the same, that's for sure), but in short I'm suggesting an option of some sort to allow the February event's datable wolf decors to not always hide the wolf they are applied to if desired by the player. Long version of this: For those who don't know/weren't around before the changes, the datable wolf decors we get from maxing out affection with the February event did not originally hide your wolf automatically. To compensate for this, the Translucent Jellyfish item was created, and 1 use versions of it were granted alongside the decor. This meant, originally, we had the "best of both worlds" option. Players who just wanted to use the datables as an extra decor could, and players who wanted to replace their wolf with them could as well. Now, by intention, the second option there was supposed to be the "correct" option, as many of the datables will cover up your wolf too much, but not all of them. Dera, for example, was a favorite of mine, because she looked like she was playing with your wolf Now, last year apparently there was a change made... the decors now automatically hide your wolf without using Translucent Jellyfish. Silly, minor rant about this whole thing in spoiler lol I do consider it relevant and on point, but not entirely needed to get my point across here. I got personally irked by the change, as I went on hiatus, the change occurred, and came back to think I was going crazy when one of my wolf's image was "clearly broken," and no matter what I did, it didn't fix. She was posed, and I thought, maybe the pose is broken? So I removed her pose... it wasn't fixed. I kept refreshing her page, regenerating her image, and clearing my cache, and nothing worked.. I rage quit somewhere in between for some time... I looked around to see if anyone else was having this "bug," and on seeing no one was, I legit thought I was insane; it had to be me, because certainty someone would have reported this "bug" if it was. That's what I was left thinking until I had the idea to just remove all her decors and slowly reapply them. I discovered, to my dismay, it was her friend, dear sweet Dera, who was the problem all along. After asking around, I learned this was by intention, and I got rather annoyed, but just went, "oh well then..." and out of spite gifted all my other datable decors to random users during December (so yeah... if you got a bunch of them from an anonymous user, that was me lol). I mean, if I can do this (a bunch of datables together), why can't I just have one with my wolf? (I mostly am pointing that out a bit more sarcastically, but still...) Now, I absolutely understand in part why the devs made this change. The free 1 use Translucent Jellyfish was a bandaid fix. They needed something better and more practical, I get it. It was a needed, positive change, just one that had some unintended downsides. Some of us (or at least I'm fairly certain I'm not alone here) really did enjoy having the datables be more flexible in their use. With creativity (right pose, right decor, etc.), you could make them blend very well with your wolves. What I'm suggesting is a compromise between the two. Practical Suggestion: I'll leave this open to other thoughts on how it could be implemented, but my main thought would be a toggle option in your wolf's setting. Essentially, it would just re-enable the wolf, but by default they would be hidden. With this option, I think a toggle in the decor equipper would also be needed for it to fully be appreciated, allowing you to figure out whether or not the wolf and the datable decor would work or not before applying the decor. Alternatively, and this may or may not be more easily done in terms of programming, making two versions of each decor exist, one that automatically hides and one that does not, with an option when you claim the decor to choose which version you get for that datable that year. Either option to me seems relatively doable and fair to all, allowing us the freedom and creativity to use these decors as we please or as intended. A third thought would be an item/decor in the event shop that re-enables your wolf? Bit of a spit balling thought there, but I think it would still be fair, as LB are not hard to come by, assuming LB cost is reasonable. Thank you for reading my suggestion!	Darklily #1058

Posted 2025-02-20 21:45:28

#1468899

Bit late in February this year for this suggestion, but I honestly thought this would have already been suggested, only to find it hasn't after a search. Not really sure if this is too close to an older suggestion (it is not the same, that's for sure), but in short I'm suggesting an option of some sort to allow the February event's datable wolf decors to not always hide the wolf they are applied to if desired by the player.

Long version of this:
For those who don't know/weren't around before the changes, the datable wolf decors we get from maxing out affection with the February event did not originally hide your wolf automatically. To compensate for this, the Translucent Jellyfish item was created, and 1 use versions of it were granted alongside the decor. This meant, originally, we had the "best of both worlds" option. Players who just wanted to use the datables as an extra decor could, and players who wanted to replace their wolf with them could as well. Now, by intention, the second option there was supposed to be the "correct" option, as many of the datables will cover up your wolf too much, but not all of them. Dera, for example, was a favorite of mine, because she looked like she was playing with your wolf

Now, last year apparently there was a change made... the decors now automatically hide your wolf without using Translucent Jellyfish.

Silly, minor rant about this whole thing in spoiler lol I do consider it relevant and on point, but not entirely needed to get my point across here.

I got personally irked by the change, as I went on hiatus, the change occurred, and came back to think I was going crazy when one of my wolf's image was "clearly broken," and no matter what I did, it didn't fix. She was posed, and I thought, maybe the pose is broken? So I removed her pose... it wasn't fixed. I kept refreshing her page, regenerating her image, and clearing my cache, and nothing worked.. I rage quit somewhere in between for some time... I looked around to see if anyone else was having this "bug," and on seeing no one was, I legit thought I was insane; it had to be me, because certainty someone would have reported this "bug" if it was. That's what I was left thinking until I had the idea to just remove all her decors and slowly reapply them. I discovered, to my dismay, it was her friend, dear sweet Dera, who was the problem all along. After asking around, I learned this was by intention, and I got rather annoyed, but just went, "oh well then..." and out of spite gifted all my other datable decors to random users during December (so yeah... if you got a bunch of them from an anonymous user, that was me lol). I mean, if I can do this (a bunch of datables together), why can't I just have one with my wolf? (I mostly am pointing that out a bit more sarcastically, but still...)
Now, I absolutely understand in part why the devs made this change. The free 1 use Translucent Jellyfish was a bandaid fix. They needed something better and more practical, I get it. It was a needed, positive change, just one that had some unintended downsides. Some of us (or at least I'm fairly certain I'm not alone here) really did enjoy having the datables be more flexible in their use. With creativity (right pose, right decor, etc.), you could make them blend very well with your wolves. What I'm suggesting is a compromise between the two.

Practical Suggestion:
I'll leave this open to other thoughts on how it could be implemented, but my main thought would be a toggle option in your wolf's setting. Essentially, it would just re-enable the wolf, but by default they would be hidden. With this option, I think a toggle in the decor equipper would also be needed for it to fully be appreciated, allowing you to figure out whether or not the wolf and the datable decor would work or not before applying the decor. Alternatively, and this may or may not be more easily done in terms of programming, making two versions of each decor exist, one that automatically hides and one that does not, with an option when you claim the decor to choose which version you get for that datable that year. Either option to me seems relatively doable and fair to all, allowing us the freedom and creativity to use these decors as we please or as intended. A third thought would be an item/decor in the event shop that re-enables your wolf? Bit of a spit balling thought there, but I think it would still be fair, as LB are not hard to come by, assuming LB cost is reasonable.

Thank you for reading my suggestion!

Darklily
#1058

Posted 2025-02-20 22:14:16

#1468977

Support! I'd like to see my woof with a companion!

Howling Fox
#149087

Allow Datable Decors to Still Show Wolf Applied To

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