Chibivolk

Our first Autumn event has begun! Here is a small giveaway for some event currency. Reblog and comment your answer to the question and your username/ID to enter!

Winners will be drawn on November 14th!

any kind of tenny, no matter what, is a good tenny

This is a long post and I’m putting it most of it under the cut for convenience, but please do read it if you’re thinking of defending this system.

So there’s more than just ethical issues of the premium gatcha system they’re considering - there’s also the legal issues surrounding loot boxes and gatchas currently.

Gatchas of certain kinds are illegal in Japan, but that isn’t the same kind DV is probably going to use.  The Wiki article for Loot Boxes has a bunch of info legalities and such, but overall there seems to be no cut-and-dry distiction of whether it’s legally gambling - and, if it is, whether it should be considered more like an arcade claw machine or more like a roulette table.

Which is why I’m concentrating on the ethics of this system, because those are pretty cut and dry.  And the evidence suggests:

It’s a predatory business practice, we all know it, and it should not be used, defended or legitimised by anyone.

Least of all by a petsite that was crowdsourced, and applied via the primary means in which users can support the site going forward: premium currency.

The TL;DR of this is: the system is unethical; it is user unfreindly; one of their supposed stopgaps is (accidentally?) a great way to blame users for engaging with the system and not liking it; it goes against dev’s previously stated desire for fairness; the system is unethical; it discourages people from actually buying premium which can lead to financial issues down the line; the system is unethical.

The solution is exceedingly simple though, and that is to get rid of the chance aspect of it.

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(you’ve been warned)

As a gentle reminder, if you want to check out Dappervolk sneak peeks from streams (keeping in mind NOTHING is confirmed, EVERYTHING is subject to change, and this is USER-GATHERED, and NOT ENDORSED BY STAFF), I have a spreadsheet of pics. It’ll give you an idea of what may be to come! :) If you’ve heard chatter about “that one spreadsheet” or “pics from streams”, it’s likely that it’s this one here. 

Check it out here!  |  Other Misc Dappervolk Sheets & Guides

Dapper Avatars 100+ followers giveaway!!

(Excuse the graphic looool)

DA hit 100 followers a couple days ago, and my personal DV blog @visindy also hit 100 a… while ago, so here’s a big ol’ giveaway to celebrate both!

Prizes:

Six (6) people will win one (1) beta bundle of their choice!

Rules:

No reselling the prizes for IRL cash.  Against DV ToS so.  Illegal.

Only enter once please!  Anyone who enters more than once will be disqualified.  Also to clarify: it’s once altogether rather than once per blog I’m celebrating!  I doubled up on prizes rather than prize draws :Y

Winners have 48hrs to respond before being redrawn to accommodate time differences and people having lives outside Tumblr.

How to enter:

If you’re interested in entering, reblog this post with:

Your DV username and ID number - if you don’t have one then you can still enter, just mention you’ve not managed to sign up yet!

If you have a preferred method of contact - if you don’t put one down I’ll contact you through whatever is easiest for me at the time.

Do not tag as giveaway please!  Apparently it messes up the notes and I,,, need those,,,,,,,

You don’t have to know which bundle you want straight away, but it would be super useful if you knew by the end of the giveaway at least aha.  I’m willing to wait a week but after that you have to either choose or I’ll redraw.

Giveaway ends 2 weeks from now, on 10th April 2018!

Since I’ve found there’s a few specific bits of information I’ve been explaining multiple times in the DV discord recently–information that has only been disseminated through the discord or through streams, so there’s no official sources to point through–I decided to compile some of it.

Please keep in mind that because none of this has been officially announced, it may be subject to change.

Here is a link to all of the currently known pets by @pesh-tigo–officially released ones on the first tab, ones that have only been shown in streams/on the instagram in the second.

Premium Accounts and Turnips

Premium accounts will cost $5 a month, and you can buy 1 month, 3 months, or 6 months at a time (it is unknown if there will be a discount for larger bundles, but it seems likely).

Premium perks include a higher daily potato earning cap, the ability to do more quests per day, and sets of fancy underwear you can put on your avatar for as long as you have premium.

When you purchase premium, it comes in the form of a premium token that you can either activate or trade, so it will be possible to buy them off other people for potatoes. (All KS backers will get 1 premium token that they can use during beta specifically–it won’t come back for official launch)

Premium currency is called turnips (as opposed to the in-game currency, which is potatoes).Turnips are account locked, and cannot be traded.

Premium accounts are not tied to the premium gacha*–you don’t need to be on premium to spin the premium gacha, you just need to have turnips.

Each premium gacha spin* will cost the turnip equivalent of $2.

You’ll be able to earn turnips by watching ads, though there will be an as of yet unknown limit.

There will be new premium items (and new non-premium items) every month, that retire at the end of the month. There will only be 1 premium pet each month, and an as of yet unknown number of avatar items.

*If you’re not yet aware, every shop in Dappervolk is gacha-format, meaning that you put in a set amount of potatoes or turnips and a random item from the pool of possible items pops out.

Pet Affection and Evolution

When you raise a pet to max affection, it will evolve. This does not mean it will turn into another pet–there will just be some small changes to its appearance.

All pets will receive a new color palette upon evolving, while fantastical pets may gain some pattern changes, and legendary pets may have some small edits to their features.

All pets evolve, including the KS pets (though likely not including custom pets). No pet has more than one evolution, and you do not get to choose the color, as there is a single set alternate palette.

If you don’t like the evolved form, you have the option to keep the pet the way it was instead.

When you trade a pet to someone else, its affection becomes 0, and it will de-evolve if it was previously evolved. Even if it’s traded back to the original owner, the affection will still go down to 0. (anji voice: they’re SUPER mad at u)

Classes, Characters, NPCs, and Quests

You cannot change your class after you create your character, due to the fact that it affects your stats, which affects your quest progression.

The only thing classes determine, though, is your initial stats and a handful of class-specific avatar items and skins. You can still wear other skins and items so that you look nothing like your starting class.

At some point in the far future, you will be able to create a 2nd character, essentially making a 2nd game file where you can play through the storyline with a fresh slate. This will give you a chance to play a different class than the one you started with.

You will need certain amounts of certain stats in order to talk to some NPCs or finish some quests. In addition to your starting stats, you can gain stats from avatar items, completing quests, and your active pet (which can have natural stats, gain stats permanently from eating food, and gain stats temporarily from holding totems).

There will be points in the story where you have to choose sides between NPCs, and unlocking one of their stores will lock you out of the other. This is to encourage trading with others. If you work hard doing quests to raise an NPC’s affection to max, however, you can still unlock their store even if you were initially locked out of it.

Custom Makers and Pet Accessories (most of this info has been released, but still tends to cause some confusion)

Custom pets are one-of-a-kind pets that can be gained through Custom Pet Makers, which are available through any gacha but are the rarest item on site. They are designed by an official site artist.

Custom avatar items are one-of-a-kind avatar items that can be gained through Custom Item Makers, which are also available through any gacha, and are slightly less rare than Custom Pet Makers (but are still very rare). They are also designed by an official site artist.

We don’t know yet how the item to get pet accessories will be released, but it does also happen with an item. Unlike customs, all pet accessories are usermade.

A pet accessory is not an item that you can just take off and store or trade. When you use a pet accessory item, you will select the pet you want to put an accessory on and upload the PNG file directly to it. If you ever remove the accessory or trade the pet, the accessory will disappear.

Users will be able to sell accessories via selling others the right to upload their designs.

Usernames

You will need to have both a “login name” and a “username”. Your login name is just an added security measure, and will be secret to everyone but you, while your username is what is displayed to other people.

You cannot change your login name.

You can change your username as many times as you want. The first 3 times are free, but after that, you will need an item.

Both usernames and login names must be unique–no two people can share the same ones. It’s a little unclear, but it should be possible for your login name and username to be the same as each other.

Pet Hatching and Alchemization

You will have to alchemize 5 quaint pets to make 1 fantastical pet, and 5 fantastical pets to make 1 legendary pet.

Some alchemized pets will require specific combinations of lower rarity pets to create.

The Obsidian Dragon and Jeweled Unicorn require alchemizing the Onyx Dragonlet and Opal Valkyrie, respectively, along with 4 other fantastical pets each. It’s unknown if they can just be any fantastical pets or if it will have to be specific ones.

Quaint pets will most likely take about 9-24 hours to hatch.