I agree that it's nice it doesn't at least take up the same cauldron, yes. If I were to make it more unique, I would have made players play a simple minigame to create some thread (First thing that comes to mind, probably not the best: a game about untangling different colors of yarn, like the mobile games). OR Make thread drop from Familiar Bonding, though in that case I would probably overhaul bonding to make it easier. OR Add an easter egg hunt mechanic to the site's UI, where you can find "recolor tokens" hidden around sites' pages every 20-30 minutes, that you would trade for recolored items.
Alternatively, forget the thread, and make it the long-awaited bounty NPC that will reward you with "recolor tokens" for completing tasks that you can spend on the new apparel recolors. They don't have to be Coli tasks either, it can be a mix of Pursuits and Coli quests.
Or, even more elegant, put it in Achievements Association for points, and rehaul Pursuits to be more visible/give you notifications (I always forget they exist). I would maybe make the daily pursuits replenishable, so when you do them all, you can keep grinding for more points and buy more recolors. But that wouldn't "feel" like a new feature, innit? Not as Anniversary-worthy.
Lastly, I feel like this whole apparel recolor feature would have been a great fit with Joxar, so maybe introducing an additional feature to his recolor store could have also been a good fit C: It can be available year-round as well.
Anyway, again, these are raw ideas that just came to my mind now, and I don't hate the current feature. As someone mentioned, I wish we could at least transmute junk scenes and vistas, especially since Sophie already isn't picky about item types and transmutes them into only 2 thread types. Nonetheless: YAY HALOS
Re: 12th Anniversary
I agree that it's nice it doesn't at least take up the same cauldron, yes. If I were to make it more unique, I would have made players play a simple minigame to create some thread (First thing that comes to mind, probably not the best: a game about untangling different colors of yarn, like the mobile games).
OR
Make thread drop from Familiar Bonding, though in that case I would probably overhaul bonding to make it easier.
OR
Add an easter egg hunt mechanic to the site's UI, where you can find "recolor tokens" hidden around sites' pages every 20-30 minutes, that you would trade for recolored items.
Alternatively, forget the thread, and make it the long-awaited bounty NPC that will reward you with "recolor tokens" for completing tasks that you can spend on the new apparel recolors. They don't have to be Coli tasks either, it can be a mix of Pursuits and Coli quests.
Or, even more elegant, put it in Achievements Association for points, and rehaul Pursuits to be more visible/give you notifications (I always forget they exist). I would maybe make the daily pursuits replenishable, so when you do them all, you can keep grinding for more points and buy more recolors. But that wouldn't "feel" like a new feature, innit? Not as Anniversary-worthy.
Lastly, I feel like this whole apparel recolor feature would have been a great fit with Joxar, so maybe introducing an additional feature to his recolor store could have also been a good fit C: It can be available year-round as well.
Anyway, again, these are raw ideas that just came to my mind now, and I don't hate the current feature. As someone mentioned, I wish we could at least transmute junk scenes and vistas, especially since Sophie already isn't picky about item types and transmutes them into only 2 thread types. Nonetheless: YAY HALOS