...........................................Hailey

[rose]

"Good boy."reads her book again

[Bear]

I managed to go through all the ideas suggested in this topic and so I'm posting this summary of all the ideas everyone suggested so you can know if they've been accepted or not and reasons why.

I will point out that I may not have included absolutely every single idea in this summary, because many ideas overlap or contradict each other. Also keep in mind that these decisions are NOT absolute. We can still change some ideas during the implementation if we see there'll be problems.
ACCEPTED SUGGESTIONS
I won't reveal details about the ones we accepted, because those would be spoilers then. =P

New Lottery Games - we will definitely add more, but it's low priority so it might be a while
More Achievements - a whole new achievement system is being worked on as we speak
Special Events - probably on some holidays if Thaz is willing to make something and not too busy, of course contests are organized on the forum
New Dragon Species - of course Thaz will be drawing more, but not many because it takes a lot of time and he always decides himself which species to draw
Vacation Mode - it's planned, but we have yet to discuss if it will be difficult to program
Improved Happiness System - new additions are possible with the dragon happiness, but we don't want to make it too complicated
Dragons go beyond level 110 - we're still thinking about this, but it's possible to make the dragons grow to infinity but extremely slowly, more things to do after lvl 110 will be augmented with a completely new feature
Dragon Families, Couples - considering the problems of dragons hatching new dragons, marriage and coupling, we have replaced this idea with Dragon Friends which will be interesting
Dragon Races - a completely new feature which I think will be fun for many users
8th Dragon Slot - will be available as an unique item for a huge amount of resources
Dragon Hoard, Treasure Hunt - new feature which will prolong the game considerably
Dual Elements - incorporated in the hoard feature, but will be rare; no new images for dual elements
New Stage: Sage - also incorporated into the hoard feature, but no additional images for dragons
More options in Dragon Care, Special Dragon Food - also something new which will liven the dragon care menu
New Unique Items - lots of them are planned for various aspects of the game

MAYBE SUGGESTIONS
Random Events - we're still thinking about this one, hopefully it won't be complicated
Dragonadopters in other languages - very hard due to so many ingame messages and text
Freeze dragon image - it's possible but there's logical problems, for example having a hatchling dragon at lvl 100 which doesn't look good
Interactive Map for dragons to explore - this would be a wonderful idea, but it depends if Thaz will have time to draw the map and program all its options, it's a pretty huge feature
Personal Dragon Descriptions - we're still thinking about this because there are possible spam problems, abuse and use of diffierent languages which we cannot moderate, as well as other moderation issues; we don't want to make the game over-moderated or these descriptions becoming spam attractions

DECLINED SUGGESTIONS
Dragon Battles, Tournaments - we're an adoptables site and we don't want to turn Dragonadopters into Dragonfighters or Pokemon games; we will NEVER put battles into the game, it's way too complicated and it would change the very nature of the game
Selling Backgrounds for profit - we cannot allow this because then artists who can draw backgrounds would get profit from it, it would be unfair for those who can't draw
Dragon Clothes, Furniture, House - dragons aren't barbie dolls or Sims, it's ridiculus to think dragons need furniture or clothes
Items visible on dragon images - this is simply impossible to do because it would involve drawing a dozen type of items on thousands of dragons images, so that would be tens of thousands of combinations
Toys, Plushies for dragon to play with - this would be fine if it was a site for 6 year olds who's parents allowed them internet, we don't want to turn this into a little baby game, besides it would be quite weird for an ancient dragon playing with a plush toy...
Flash Games - we don't know how to program in flash and it would require a whole team of people and months of work, if you want to play flash games as contests to win Dragonadopters ingame resources, then visit our affiliate Pets Galore
Dragon Breeding, Family - as I addressed earlier there are certain problems with dragons breeding, we have many users who are minors not to mention breeding would destabilize the whole game; the problem with dragon families are sexual in nature
Personal Trading between players - this could easily be abused by people who have multiple accounts, so naturally we cannot implement this feature; there's an unique item being considered for this purpose, but it's unlikely we'll add it
Trading and Selling Dragons - this is a big no because adopting dragons would become meaningless when you can buy a high level dragon, besides it would seem like dragons are slaves to be sold
Male and Female Dragon images - it would be nice if males and females could have different images, but this would require hundreds of new images being drawn, that's obviously too much work for Thaz
Merging/Fusing Dragons - this would obviously create new species and new combinations and would require a lot of drawing and programming
Using personal fanart dragons instead of official dragon sprites - this is certainly a no because the official dragons are Thaz's art, official trademark and artistic expression of Dragonadopters
More dragon animations - animating takes a long time and to make more animations for dragons would take a lot of effort for a small feature like that, it simply isn't worth all that effort and time
Dragon Gallery: dragons owned so far - this isn't necessary, you can view all dragons in the Dragonadopters Shop or fansites
New Elements - this is a no because we have enough elements already and making more would make the game more complicated and would require lotsa recoloring dragons and not to mention programming for new aura and items

Don't be discouraged because lots of ideas were rejected. I believe our reasons for rejecting them were reasonable and lots of them were rejected long ago so people have been only repeating the same things over again.

It was a long discussion and very well worth it. We got many cool ideas and made a concept for them. Now it will probably take months to implement all of them, so don't expect this to be complete anytime soon.

Thank you for all your wonderful ideas. Some of them are pretty great and we think it will improve the game considerably and make it much more fun.

Look forward to the new features!

Thaz & Draconis