I've noticed that the cost of pixpet inventory expansions double for every 10 extra slots at some point. While I can understand that there should be a higher cost associated with carrying more pets, consider this.

I guess you could say I'm the kind of person trying to pokemon the pets here; gotta catch em all. As it currently stands, there are 212 total pixpets (66 pets + color variants), plus vivid pets and those color variants, for roughly 405 total pets to collect. This is going to cost a ridiculous amount of coins.

Expanding 200 to 210 slots cost 12,800; the next tier is 25,600. I know that expanding from 240 to 250 costs 204,800 so I'm guessing that every 10 pet slots doubles the price.

This means that expanding from where I am now to the needed 410 pet slots to have my lovely collection of each pet is going to cost an absolutely staggering 26,843,520,000. Yeah, that DOES say 26.8 billion

Why is this? If the pet slot cost MUST increase every time, why is it exponential growth instead of linear?

I suggest the cost either be capped at, say, 10,000 PC, or the increase per level changes to something manageable like 500 PC. I agree that there should be a kind of grind associated with collecting tons of pets, but billions of coins is insane.

And yes, I know I could release pets, but that isn't the point. I don't want to release pets, I like having a collection I can look through, and why would we have color variants, tons of pets, pet levels, and Adventure, if the point was to just hatch and release? But I suspect that this is simply an oversight, something that's gone unnoticed over the years as the number of pets and colors has greatly expanded. But hey, I'm bringing attention to it!

omg YES! This is absolutely needed. I've been holding back on spending pc on pixpet inventory because I hope it will be changed in the future. I remember people saying it should be like the item inventory ones.

@bgyoshi

oh right yeah I didn't consider each color that a pet could get then, my bad! dang that does make the total waaay higher than 190 pets

Yess great post, I already had to delete some pets when vivid pets came out :c

Bump, this is a necessary change.

Huge support here! I know I'm a new player (it's been exactly a month since I joined!), but in the future I'm planning to get them all too, and lowering/capping the prices would be a HUGE help.

That amount of PC looks dizzying...

Not to worry, please hang in there, we've worked on a fix for this, and intend to port it over with the pixpal system (cause interlinked) from the test server very soon.

Another bump! I'm dying over here x.x

An additional thought is that once the price is adjusted, users should be refunded PC = the difference between the new price and the old price of the same progression.

For example, someone that purchased up to 250 pixpet slots should be refunded the cost different between what they spent to get to 250 slots vs. what it would have cost with the new progression cost. I know some users have spent close to or over a million PC just on this alone!

Holding both pets and eggs would be a fine solution, but it looks like there's a more suitable idea being worked on with this last update post. Yay!

With a refund, that may be difficult now that it's changed. I would have taken a log of every user's capacity at the time before the update, put it all in a giant spreadsheet or an array or something, and found the difference between the new and old price.

It's been so long that I've forgotten, but if the update from 220 to 230 used to cost less than 40k, and the update from 230 to 240 cost 40k or more, I would have isolated all users with 240 or more pet slots. From there, every increase is calculatable. Having 240 pet slots means that user gets the difference between 40k and the cost of that upgrade. 250 slots means that user gets back the total cost of going to 250, minus 40k (since it now costs 40k and you aren't going to lower their capacity). The same applies for going to 260, 270, etc.

Now that users have been upgrading capacity at 40k a shot, it's going to be harder to isolate users that purchased their capacity before or after the update.