Site Suggestions

So, we as staff on Ardent want to know what you, as members, suggest we do to improve the site!

Feel free to post suggestions here -- for anything! Don't feel shy when it comes to suggesting things. If you would prefer anonymity, let me know and we can set something up for that as well.

Pending Suggestions

Store

• Breeding items: jumbo litter pass (Litter can exceed 5 Pups to reach 8 pups max when parents are in a pack, and exceed three pups to 5 when parents are loners), early heat breeding pass (A female can conceive before her prior litter is a year old) (suggested by briena)

Fight System

• take highest of score in melee fights rather than averaging (suggested by lunarcat7)
• injury penalties (suggested by lunarcat7)

Skills/Specialties

• specialty suggestions: panic button (suggested by beau), reroll lowest dice in a fight (suggested by relevantkoala)
• misc skill claim suggestions (points for failed hunt, etc)
• double skill point days
• see specialty description on hover (suggested by skelle)

Other

• flock/herd option for companions [non-combat] (suggested by bluetick)
• allow more than two companions [non-combat] (suggested by lazuli)
• more systems for hunting, healing, nav (suggested by kingpedle)
• rolled races for navigation (suggested by ali)
• sort member list by various groups (i.e. loners) (suggested by ali)
• some ghosty things (suggested by laz and bri)
• A custom threadlog (ability to sort, remove threads? add threads, "watched" threads, notes) (suggested by RK)
• Post templates tweak (ability to sort) (suggested by Joe)

FINALIZED SUGGESTIONS

• "Last Post" jumps to last post in thread (suggested by Joe)
• Add blank weekly form in alpha activity checks (suggested by Kat)
• Options other than pack page edits for Alpha Activity check (suggested by Lazuli)
• Allow two specialties
• Other-species bonus to fight rolls, in lieu of size bonus that wolves get (suggested by relevantkoala)
• Add "Playable date" to Pup apps (suggested by cloudynight)
• Self assign bot for pronoun roles (wicked)

Okay so this might sound weird and please, feel free to reach out to me if I do not explain this clearly.

A button in the 'new replies' that allows you to upload a saved draft you already have. So, what I mean is, when you click into a new reply for a thread. In that window, have a button (maybe next to the post templets?) that allows you to upload a saved draft you have already made for that thread. Honestly, I forget about drafts I have saved and it would be very helpful.

Bands allowed to stay in a territory for 1 season (2 months) while still having the monthly activity check & a new thread each month

Bands allowed to expand up to 18 members through a different method than raiding
Suggestions:
- all members having a certain amount of posts (not including pups & slaves, etc)
- being a band for an entire in-game year (8 months)

Bands allowed to have multiple ranks

Maybe an intellect specialty that allows a 10% chance for a character to talk themselves out of a bad situation? Like infiltrator (receives a 10% chance of going undetected when trespassing) but for smooth talkers

A pass we could buy in the gemstone, for a steep price or something, to move something from one character to another.

For example, a character who is super decked out but turned out not to be a fighter would move one of their companions or mutations to another character?

Or a way to refund a character who has passed 10 posts.

Maybe consider allowing the creation of threads in the discord- mainly for the marketplace channels and the Plot/Skill classifieds. It's so easy for things to get lost in a single feed. That would help organize ISOs a little better c:

A surface anatomy diagram and maybe muscle anatomy diagram to go with the fighting stuff in the guidebook could be cool ^^

Intellect specialty idea that I was shitposting about in discord actually sounds hella fun
Heckler - inflicts a -20% (or whatever percentage makes it balanced to the other specialties and worth taking) penalty to enemy perception in fights (seeing red/tea said "can't see through their tears" also which is fking funny)

the pixel for the specialty can be a rotten tomato, because you know, hecklers throwing rotten fruit at people

I had a thought with there being single person threads for skills that do not require a second or third? With a healthy predator you would need help with a large group of course. No single wolf could take down a leopard seal by itself. But weakened prey can be taken down with one wolf. Especially those of large or dire wolf size. Medium would need help and of course small would need a group for that to even count as SPs. Giving it a more wide range to hunt larger prey and earn points in the process.