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Redfeather1975 · Mar 12, 2007, 03:52 AM // 03:52

A firework with unlimited uses?

lucifer_uk · Mar 12, 2007, 04:05 AM // 04:05

I'm all for more mini pets because i'll just sell them and get my loyalty back in gold.

Slightly off topic but how about a birthday gift to Guild's when they reach a year old etc? An addition to the hall or a cape trim or even just more logos for the cape?

Corinthian · Mar 12, 2007, 08:18 AM // 08:18

I'm still with the chaos dye. It's so perfect. Nothing can go wrong. It would be tradeable. If you don't need it, sell it. Perfect. What POSSIBLE arguments can there be against this? A random colored chaos dye to make any, even green, item glow. Then you can show it off and be happy about it.

arkadiusz · Mar 12, 2007, 01:44 PM // 13:44

a pve-only skill, or a title with an effect like lightbringer, that raises all attributes by one, similar to the gods' blessing. the attribute bonus might raise by one for each year. call it veteran's insight or something like that.

oh, and no more minipets please.

combatchuck · Mar 12, 2007, 03:09 PM // 15:09

Nothing random, please. I'd like something like /bonusitems honestly. Except that it doesn't spawn a crappy Ithas bow. Instead it spawns a set of unique-skinned weapons that are customized, worth zero, and cannot be salvaged, but CAN be modded and are inscribable. I guess the mods could be salvaged when you put them on, but i don't know how it would work. I think that would be nice, and make it so much less expensive to equip my heroes.

If it were me, I'd host a Design-A-Weapon contest just before the 2-year mark rolls around.

truemyths · Mar 12, 2007, 03:17 PM // 15:17

I vote with the others on moving away from mini-pets.

New Emotes (random list?):
you could even make it an item, like the squash serum, so when you click on it you get an effect (except that it stays in inventory)
- A birthday cake, or a glowing 2
- An overall yellow birthday flame glow
- A big uber glowing dwarf that brings his hammer down twice ;-)

Birthday disguises

If it's a mini-pet:
- Please add more actions to them (flying, jumping around, etc.) ... I think that's what makes kunnavang so popular (at least with me). And btw *I like the sound effects*
- A mini-me (a miniature of yourself)
- A glowing ball mini (since it follows you around in town)
- Minis that float by your head vs. floating near the ground
- Mini-Moa!
- Mini-penguin, that waddles
- Mini-rabbit, that hops
- mini-elf
- Mini candy corn warrior
- mini pumpkin head person

Barek_NO · Mar 12, 2007, 05:19 PM // 17:19

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Originally Posted by truemyths

I vote with the others on moving away from mini-pets.

New Emotes (random list?):
you could even make it an item, like the squash serum, so when you click on it you get an effect (except that it stays in inventory)

OH! Good idea there ... how about a re-ueable serum (remains in inventory when used) that lets you take the appearance of any minipet in your inventory (random if multiple minipets are in personal inventory)? That could get confusing in explorable area - so maybe has a different effect in explorable areas.

Lexar · Mar 12, 2007, 06:00 PM // 18:00

I think it's not surprising that the most popular request for a 2nd birthday present is minipets because to be honest people in general just aren't very creative or imaginative. If the first year present had been a hat everyone would now be wanting a 2nd birthday hat now and nobody would even ask for minipets, period.
So asking a large group of people to come up with ideas and then taking the most common idea will definately not result in anything creative, and as such asking a big group of people to come up with anything creative seems like a flawed concept to begin with.

That came out a bit meaner than I had intended

Minipets just get sold to whoever wants to spend a lot of cash and almost never has anything to do with the actual character itself, not to mention a lot of people get screwed over when they get a 'worthless' minipet that's very common.
Birthday presents shouldn't be about some people getting rare pets and making a lot of platinum by selling their presents to grinders, and others who don't get a rare pet seeing other people around them selling the pets for a huge profit.

I think birthday presents are supposed to be actually be character related and should stick to the character because it's a gift to them and not to someone who has farmed extensively. The minipets are the opposite of this. If you keep on giving people minipets each year you may as well make a minipet trader and simply give people platinums for their birthday and then they can chose to spend it at that trader. (please note that this is a worst case scenario for me)

Instead a weapon (if it comes pre-customised), an armor, an aura, more storage, an emote, all of these don't have to upset any gameplay balance and seem much more character related as a present so that's what I would go for.

So please Anet don't assume we want minipets again. The only reason it's mentioned so often is because people either don't think you guys have the imagination to come up with anything new or they themselves don't have it. That would be a pretty crappy way to decide on policy wouldn't it?

truemyths · Mar 12, 2007, 06:52 PM // 18:52

Adding on to my previous thread:

If I had the opportunity to influence aNet:

Preferred to mini-pets
- Emotes, auras
- reusable items that create graphical wowzas

(fireworks, flameheads, etc.)

If Mini-Pets
- Add uniqueness to minipet actions, eg. rolling versus walking, flying, hopping, etc.
- personally, I like items that float near your head, another thread mentioned butterflies, hummingbirds, etc.

And a really weird idea: how about a emote "nerf bat" LOL I am quite sure that this would be really popular

Tide to Go · Mar 12, 2007, 08:20 PM // 20:20

update the distance they can be away from you, i hate it takes them two minutes to notice u have moved and so they run after you like litte....hmm shouldn't use that word........

mini halo

mini devil horns

mini heads (spirited away)http://www.stomptokyo.com/img-m6/spirited-away-c.jpgid kill for this one

................................./run

not a mini, but like the lazy cats that lay around in cantha....ya one of those to follow ya

mini u's would suck, w t s a mini me, who would want a mini you?

mini emperor of Cantha

mini ettin
omg id love it, knee high

mini you(the kind that you fight, not the one that looks like u)

Barek_NO · Mar 12, 2007, 08:47 PM // 20:47

Back to my comments above ... a tonic that let you take on the appearance of any minipet in your inventory would be better to me that an additional mini pet. Better yet, an emote that only works after your second birthday to give you the appearance of a minipet from your inventory (tonics take inventory space, emotes don't).

Other ideas would be other emotes that only work after the 2nd birthday - maybe a half dozen or so potential effects on or around the player (small fireworks, butterflies, halo, "trailers" when they move (glimmering marks or even a blur factor), etc.

If anet is bound and determined to throw me more inventory hogs for me to sell off (ie: Minipets), then I would say a mini emperor, or a mini doppleganger, or a mini Gwen.

Gear853 · Mar 12, 2007, 08:57 PM // 20:57

how about a BIGGER STORAGE SPACE!? lol

mini pet are cool. but i think bigger storage space would be pro..

or a chance to change your character hair from any of the other expansion would be pro too

Fentarez · Mar 12, 2007, 10:36 PM // 22:36

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Originally Posted by Corinthian

I'm still with the chaos dye. It's so perfect. Nothing can go wrong. It would be tradeable. If you don't need it, sell it. Perfect. What POSSIBLE arguments can there be against this? A random colored chaos dye to make any, even green, item glow. Then you can show it off and be happy about it.

I think this would be really awesome, just something to make armor prettier.
I prefer it to be untradeable, it is YOUR birthday present, but well thats my opinion..

The only thing that could go wrong is that GW would soon look something like this: http://www.tron-sector.com/gallery/show.aspx?id=861

Feels a bit non-GW

But anything except a mini makes me happy, unique weapons, aura's it all sounds good!

byteme! · Mar 12, 2007, 11:12 PM // 23:12

Mini anything...

Have our new mini's PICK UP LOOT for us. ^^

Spazzer · Mar 13, 2007, 03:04 AM // 03:04

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Originally Posted by lucifer_uk

Slightly off topic but how about a birthday gift to Guild's when they reach a year old etc?

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Hakuin · Mar 13, 2007, 03:39 AM // 03:39

auras FTW

i like the minis, but they take up a space, and then i always forget i have em... and noone will buy mine (i like 2 of the ones i got though ^_^)

wakimon · Mar 13, 2007, 01:15 PM // 13:15

1. Special Costumes!!!

something like an inventory item when u equip/double click/use it you change into something like a clown, barney or the teenage mutant ninja turtles hahaha

2. Mini me!! mini pet!!

err i mean a mini pet of your character.

4. Plastic Surgeon!!

lol a npc that lets you change the way you look, your face, your hair style your skin color etc etc, it would be great if i can change the hair my TYRIAN necro into those styles in factions.

Cynix · Mar 13, 2007, 05:36 PM // 17:36

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Originally Posted by Spazzer

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See but that wouldnt work because all the idol/unactive guilds with just 1 person that hasnt been on the game for a year would get it and it wouldnt be used.
Cynix

IAL · Mar 13, 2007, 06:27 PM // 18:27

Hello ppl.
Alot has been mentioned, some good proposals and some quite bad (imo ofc).

I'd say that bad ones is;

Easily sold or cashed in for a few extra golds.
None char specific, meaing it's not cutomised - it is this single one char's birthday right?
Something totally new, it should remind us of why / when we first started playing right?

I will repost some suggestions that i see as a good option.

1. Aura - Your char gets an aura based on your choice of god / profession with a title - using the title would show the aura.

2. An armor, why not make the substiute for the FoW age required, thus making an eternal armor (not salvagable).

3. An item, a truly unique item (why not white with bonuses on it) rare, green or other that is customised, not destructable and inscribable (without those bloody ugly names for the inscriptions).

4. Token (account based) to move ONE char to GW2 (whenever it comes), unless this is going to be possible anyway.

5. This would actually be quite fun, many have proposed some kind of elite mission, instead (as someone posted) re-open the catacombs in tyria and let 2 year olds access it.
*Show a piece of tyria that wasnt destroyed and let the old char's find it in some quest or mission.

6. An Emote, god/profession based - maybe even an emote of the char itself if its doable.

7. Something useful for the account in general, key ring, more storage, minipet/green storage...

8. A movie, about how tyria got restored (unless chapter 4 will be about that

- sorta a happy ending to the tale of tyria.

If youre missing good proposals from former posters pls feel free to type down a few to keep ppl up to date with what has been said.

Funk ee Monk ee · Mar 13, 2007, 09:15 PM // 21:15

I agree, there are enough mini's to lag a third world nation right off the map.

How about a visible Character Aura? Like the green glow one gets with the Chalice of Corruption quests in Factions but different colors? An Ele with a red glow, a Nec with a green or black glow, a Monk radiating white light ... you get the idea.

OR

How about a character-redesign signet. After 2 years my poor monk is about the ugliest thing in the world to me. What WAS I thinking when I made her bald? Say perhaps adding a key which allows you to redesign a character's LOOK OR NAME one time only.

(sorry if these were suggested, I did not have the time to browse 31 pages)