according to the effects bug megathread, effects that don't work with with line breaking terts/eyes is working as intended as a known limitation of the system. so i wouldn't count on a fix for that.
Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
1. incompatible with non-basic eye types 2. incompatible with line-breaking terts 3. incompatible with older devices and mobile
...and it was a feature that no one asked for, that these three things /cannot actually be fixed on/, despite the mind-numbingly repetitious suggestions for /existing/ features to be better-compatible with all three of those things? Am I reading that correctly?
Lol. Lmao even. I was in camp "eh, not for me" but this is lowkey so hilariously counter to everything people keep yapping in circles about wanting it almost feels intentional.
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AYRT Yeah, after I posted here I saw the official bug thread - but that just sounds worse, like, ultracool linebreaking terts are one of the biggest selling points of ancients and the new customization option just doesn't work with it (and likely never will) and that's a totally normal thing? Bizarre, especially as I don't think that this limitation was mentioned anywhere in the announcement, so it's one more 'little hidden gem' that you just have to know, like randomly bugged genes that may or may not be fixed any time soon.
Also, poor ancients - no apparel, half of effects, just label them 'lesser' dragons and be done with it.
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They still cover tertiaries, only the lines and shadows are broken. For example try the sun and moon effect on a big linebreaking tert. Primal eyes just don't work at all though.
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AYRT The more you try to explain - and everything you say is true - the worse it sounds lol I've tried it on an Antlers Dusthide and I'll let you know that I actually liked the ghostly antlers, problem is, I cannot do anything with it because it's a kinda-sorta bug-inconsistency, so it will always teeter on the edge of being fixed-corrected.
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They also decided to remove scenic mode's save button from *all dragons* because it wasn't working with effects. Not waiting to release until they had a better solution, of course not. Just taking it out without comment.
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I don’t disagree that it could use some work and hopefully they can figure out a way to make it work better with line breakers and eyes, but I do just wanna point out that this actually opens the door to more options on ancients - specifically in the form of the Butterfly effect. This could be a way to get ‘apparel’ onto ancients and permababies.
I’m kinda meh on the current options and implementation - I like a few effects but most of them are too overwhelming on my dragons. I really hope we get options to tone down the effect or even change the color. But I’m staying optimistic that future effects could be better as staff learns what the user base wants more. I’d love to get some sort of flowerfall or aura for ancients.
(I’m also personally not a fan of ‘no one asked for this’ critiques of new features, because as much as I want say a nesting ground update or better blocking or something, or how other people want coli pvp, I don’t think new features should have to be shelved entirely until absolutely every revamp requested is done first. We’d never get anything new in that case. And it’s not like staff isn’t working in other areas, this is just one they chose to launch now. I think criticisms of it being a little underbaked are valid, but really, it is asked for because people always want more customization on the dragon customization site. I’m all for an option to completely turn it off (like not just static images, but reverting to pre-effects pages) if possible though and get back proper saving, etc. At least at the end of the day, it’s fairly easy to ignore this entire feature for people who do hate it.)
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Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)1. incompatible with non-basic eye types
2. incompatible with line-breaking terts
3. incompatible with older devices and mobile
...and it was a feature that no one asked for, that these three things /cannot actually be fixed on/, despite the mind-numbingly repetitious suggestions for /existing/ features to be better-compatible with all three of those things? Am I reading that correctly?
Lol. Lmao even. I was in camp "eh, not for me" but this is lowkey so hilariously counter to everything people keep yapping in circles about wanting it almost feels intentional.
Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)Yeah, after I posted here I saw the official bug thread - but that just sounds worse, like, ultracool linebreaking terts are one of the biggest selling points of ancients and the new customization option just doesn't work with it (and likely never will) and that's a totally normal thing? Bizarre, especially as I don't think that this limitation was mentioned anywhere in the announcement, so it's one more 'little hidden gem' that you just have to know, like randomly bugged genes that may or may not be fixed any time soon.
Also, poor ancients - no apparel, half of effects, just label them 'lesser' dragons and be done with it.
Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)The more you try to explain - and everything you say is true - the worse it sounds lol
I've tried it on an Antlers Dusthide and I'll let you know that I actually liked the ghostly antlers, problem is, I cannot do anything with it because it's a kinda-sorta bug-inconsistency, so it will always teeter on the edge of being fixed-corrected.
Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)I don’t disagree that it could use some work and hopefully they can figure out a way to make it work better with line breakers and eyes, but I do just wanna point out that this actually opens the door to more options on ancients - specifically in the form of the Butterfly effect. This could be a way to get ‘apparel’ onto ancients and permababies.
I’m kinda meh on the current options and implementation - I like a few effects but most of them are too overwhelming on my dragons. I really hope we get options to tone down the effect or even change the color. But I’m staying optimistic that future effects could be better as staff learns what the user base wants more. I’d love to get some sort of flowerfall or aura for ancients.
(I’m also personally not a fan of ‘no one asked for this’ critiques of new features, because as much as I want say a nesting ground update or better blocking or something, or how other people want coli pvp, I don’t think new features should have to be shelved entirely until absolutely every revamp requested is done first. We’d never get anything new in that case. And it’s not like staff isn’t working in other areas, this is just one they chose to launch now. I think criticisms of it being a little underbaked are valid, but really, it is asked for because people always want more customization on the dragon customization site. I’m all for an option to completely turn it off (like not just static images, but reverting to pre-effects pages) if possible though and get back proper saving, etc. At least at the end of the day, it’s fairly easy to ignore this entire feature for people who do hate it.)
Re: Odds of flight/festival themed effects next cycle?
(Anonymous) 2025-02-13 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)It just feels too underbaked and disappointing for me to use past isolated cases.