I think a suggestion similar to this exists already but it's old and I wanted to flesh it out a bit. Or, more like, a lot.

We can all probably agree that it'd be cool to customize our pets in some way, and there are a few different ways to go about it, all of which could technically work. So here are my thoughts for it.

(I had this written out from mobile before but now I think I made it look a bit better)



Variants of rules and restrictions

1. Simple layered accessory
- no changes to pet pose or expression or general design
- only a piece of clothing or outfit
- could be layered over the pet image so that it can also easily be used with variants and vivids, due to no edits to the pet art itself

2. Accessory with minimal pet art edits
- besides an accessory. Makeup, an expression change or small alteration of pet markings is allowed
- not layered over the pet image, but rather the entire image is replaced, so vivids are out of luck and will need separate art/image files made

3. Accessory with small pose edit
- majority of the pet should still remain the way it is but some parts could be repositioned
- clothing, expression and small marking edits also apply
- once again vivids would need to be separate from regulars


Additional restrictions:

• has to stay within the original size of the pixpet's image (which includes the transparent space around it)


• some kind of coverage limit, like say 50% of the pet's image maximum


• I'd assume it can't stray too far from pixpet world's rules and also has to stay within TOS of course

How the player would create accessories

In my opinion, players should be able to exclusively commission these from official site artists, much like deco. It'd give another use for PPT and also ensure that the art remains within Pixpet's style and that the images are all correctly sized and all that.

I'm not 100% sure on Komodo's stance on allowing user-drawn content alongside official art but so far it's not a thing likely due to the specifics of the pixel style. For the sake of consistency, having them drawn by site artists would work out better.


On-site functionality

When it comes to distribution of said accessories, there are multiple possibilities:

• Dappervolk approach: original owner has infinite uses of the accessory and can grant uses to other players. Applying it to a pet could involve an SPC potion, such as "accessory super potion" or something



• Flight Rising approach: the accessory is an item of which you get, say, 10 individual copies of, you can sell them on the market or in usershop, and maybe if you want to withdraw more copies, it costs more PPT (or pixcoins idk)



• Pixpet approach: like deco, each commissioned accessory could become part of the site and available for everyone through hoards or some special shop. That would, however, discourage creation of more personal designs, which some players may want for their favorite pets. Upon requesting the commission the user could maybe choose whether they want the accessory to be universal or not, but idk how plausible that is.



• There is also the option of having official, non-commission accessories exist, something everyone could get through hoards or from a shop, while the supply of user-commissioned accessories would be controlled by their respective commissioners.



• One issue with user-controlled supply, however, means that the user getting banned or deciding to quit essentially also retires any accessories they commissioned. Whether that's a bad thing or not is up to the site creator but could definitely be seen as an issue especially if the art is technically official assets drawn by the team.

The way the accessories apply to pets would probably be fairly simple as there is not much that can be tweaked there.

• The accessory would only be equippable to the species it was designed for. Depending on whether accessories allow pet art to be tweaked or not, vivids of the same species may still need their own separate versions of the accessory commissioned.



• One pet would, naturally, be able to wear only one accessory at a time. Accessories should be free to remove but depending on the system may cost to reapply.

Disclaimer: I also don't actually know anything about coding, I have no idea how much work implementing a system like this would take (probably a lot), I have to make assumptions based on pretty much just what makes sense in my head and what I've seen on other petsites; for example some layering code already exists in house decorating which I thought could be helpful when applying layering to pet images but those two may easily share no similarities at all. And also it's a big suggestion in general which means it'd be a long time before anything like this gets added. But hopefully that's not a "never"!

Okay I had some time to edit/organize this. Long post but I wanted to really detail all the possibilities and potential issues.

hopefully accessories will be a thing someday :D

having accessory commissions be PPT exclusive would ensure at least the possibility that someone buys PPT or subs to the patreon, so that the artist drawing them could actually get paid. but it also doesn't lock free players out of the system completely

the nice thing about deco commissions is that they will be available to everyone once commissioned, plus non-commission deco exists, making it so no one misses out on any deco whether they are able to get PPT or not. The question is, should commissioned accessories be treated the same as commissioned deco, or should their supply be left up to the commissioner? Possibly both? that'd be Komodo's decision

that said, if Komodo did agree to allow users to draw and submit their own accessories, there could be a pixcoin option. I just don't know how plausible an usermade accessory system would be since the pixel style is very specific.


If commissioned accessories were given out in limited supply, ideally the commissioner would get at least 10, like they do deco. Whether they get to choose a more specific quantity or not is also up to Komodo.

Pricing could maybe possibly be set by coverage, rather than detail? Maybe also dependent on the pet's evolutionary stage? Complexity could definitely be tough to price; the commissioner could maybe be required to assess the complexity level of their accessory idea themselves, and for something that's detailed enough, add on some PPT (in the same way as you can add animation or rotation to a deco commission, to an accessory you could add an "extra complex" option). And if you don't select the complexity option and the artist deems it necessary, the commission gets declined. But yeah there are a lot of rough edges on the pricing side of things that would need to be figured out.

It would only cost (not PPT, like maybe a low amount of PC) to apply/reapply accessories if accessory use was unlimited, much like on dappervolk you have unlimited use of your accessories but you need an item to apply them to your pets. That said, if Komodo decided there would be no need for a fee, then that'd be cool too, just that, a currency sink always helps. But if the accessories are items like skins on FR then there would be no need for a cost, since you'd have a limited amount of them and you'd probably have to pay (in pixcoins) if you wanted more copies generated. Also limited copies of accessories should not disappear under any circumstances.

Oh, yeah, good points. I honestly got nothing against user-made accessories, trade-able or not, but the reason it works well on other petsites is because they're not restricted to pixels only, welcoming a larger variety of artstyles and skill levels. So I was pretty much just weighing pros and cons of an user-submission system that's a bit less artist friendly than what you normally see but ultimately it still wouldn't be a bad idea imo if Komodo was actually ok with it. Plus users could commission artists with pixcoin to make accessories for them and stuff.

there's also the option of allowing user-made accessories to be non-pixel but I feel like it'd maybe clash too much with the aesthetic. I wish I could say with better certainty what Komodo's style limits are but so far, everything is very strictly pixel-oriented, to the point where the arcade artwork feels very out of place lol.