iām a special snowflake my issue with the crepes game is the customers are all so boring looking. i know the art team probably just wanted to keep things simple to get it out in time for release but my kingdom for some customers who arenāt triple basic
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So I've got a thought or two as for why this is.
Basic is the only gene in the game with "plentiful" rarity. Its been many years since it earned that title in-practice. To put it simply, I think that Staff intentionally design NPCs with full basic as often as possible for the secondary purpose of making it look plentiful in-lore, since players dont generally want their lairs full of flat colours.
If you've ever attended a LARP, you'll be familiar with Oversaturation of Protagonists, which is to say that when everyone is a main character, everyone looks pretty unremarkable. Players all want to be the chosen one, or the best warrior, and have the flashiest costume, and nobody wants to be the town cobbler. It makes sense, because the town cobbler probably doesnt want to get eaten by a mimic, but a healthy world has Really Really Boring NPCs to make it actually livable for the main characters, because slaying monsters doesnt help when you need a new pair of shoes.
Anyway, these are all dragons with day jobs. They make up the bulk of the population in-canon, and thus statistically will more often than not, have plentiful traits unless they have a reason to be flashy.
I will concede though: not one? not a single Stripes or Freckle? Surely there's gotta be someone with Underbelly. We have multiple Wildclaws and not one common gene, surely someone's parent treated themselves to a cheap scroll somewhere down the line.
