04/19/11
First of all I have to say these little buggers are really cute and know how to steal ones heart in a split second. I have to admit, it's especially the noises they're making that made me fall for them.
Now, after having my wild bunch for a day and playing around with the HUD and the Meeroos for a while, some questions started to raise in my head and well... since this is open beta and questions, thoughts and suggestions are to be raised I better start sharing. ;)
1.) Meeroo Stats only visible via HUD
While this idea is neat and helps to keep chat spam to a minimum, I'm wondering how this is going to work in secondary market. When I first came into breedables, I loved clicking on animals on markets and look at their stats, trying to learn from them. Since Meeroo stats are only visible if you have a HUD, I'm wondering how this will effect the secondary market. It will be really hard to attrack new possible breeders to Meeroos if they can't even see stats to compare what's on the market and in the end decide to join the Meeroo-Mania. Are there any thoughts how to help out new folks here so far?
2.) How to sell a Meeroo?
Since a Meeroo needs to be rezzed close to its home stump I'm a little confused how this shall work out later when people want to offer their beautiful breed out Meeroos for sale. Will everyone need a "market stump" for their Meeroos then?
3.) Meeroo display option missing
So far I couldn't detect any kind of button telling a Meeroo to pose for auction or market purposes. This will be needed pretty soon. Otherwise we're having hunting parties at auctions and on markets. ;)
4.) HUD messages toggle on/off
The Meeroos I have for open beta are set in the front of my store area. So, sometimes people pass by and at other times there's no one around. I really like the fact Meeroos react to the fact they're alone and go in a sleep-like phase and also react to lack of free sim-scripttime to help out with the lag. What I don't like are all those yellow messages I get every 2 minutes telling me, Meeroos are going into normal activity mode or vice versa.
My suggestion would be to have an option page in the HUD where every user can decide what kind of messages he/she wants to receive.
Same for oracle question notices. I don't know how often I already almost jumped out of my pants when that oracle voice came up to tell me there's another question. At times I want to play and enjoy to play oracle questions, but then at other times I'm not in the mood and would like to turn oracle messages off for a while.
5.) Fellowships
I'm missing the possibilities of interaction here. So far I joined a Fellowship (and folks, I'm glad you took me!), but I'm not seeing the point what it's good for so far. Maybe my Meeroos are too young yet, but well... just thoughts, you know ;)
6.)Oracle questions
Please don't get this the wrong way, but for my taste there are way too many song lyric questions in that pool. Some more trivia like would be much appreciated. (And they're already starting repeating themselves after 6-7 hours...)
Okay... so far my thoughts, questions and suggestions.
I'm really looking forward to this breedable. They are horrible damn cute!!!
<3 Vila