u__wo_ on Toyhouse

Comments on Questions about a possible design trade-in! All Comments

Giving my initial thoughts, they're a bit rough.

- I value my own designs (MYOs made by me) higher than ones I received for the MYO price, so if I own two dreamies that are both worth $25, the one I designed in my mind is worth more to me because of the time I spent making the design. Idk if that seems weird or how it might factor into this, but I ultimately arrived at the conclusion that I'd be much more likely to give up a MYO made by someone else if I knew it was ultimately going to be used for monetary profit, especially if the worth I was receiving in return was the base slot price of $25.

- edit; you already decided to do this looks like, but I agree with the idea of letting designers opt-out of the USD option on their designs!

- This one is exceedingly brainstormy/not well thought out yet but for designs with extra art (or designs turned in by the artist that made them) could there maybe be some sort of a barter/haggle feature where based on the worth of the design that's being traded, rare traits might be added to the received MYO slot?

Examples:

I turn in a dreamy worth $75 total and ask for a Common + 1R MYO slot in return.
I have a MYO dreamy that I designed, and am not sure I'm ok with being used for USD if exchanged for a common MYO slot. However, I might consider allowing it to be sold for USD if I were able to get a common slot + 1SR trait (to cover the time I spent on the design/what I feel my art is worth).

I'm certain this would need to be refined some in order for it to actually work, but the thought of basically meeting in the middle with 'the designer gets the ability to sell for USD and the customer gets the perk of a chance at extra rare stuff' (i.e. extra perks for both parties, beyond how it's been done in the past) seems nice! And maybe above isn't the right way to execute that, but I do really like the thought of both artist and customer coming out of this with extra perks.

I've yet to participate in any of these turn in events (just haven't been around long enough to do so) so I'm sure there are some logistical issues with the suggestions above, but I just wanted to share my thought process anyway in the hopes that they might spark ideas or discussion! I hope I'm not too far off base.

u__wo_

Oh, I kinda like the second idea you proposed as far as the worth of the OG MYO goes! I'm not sure about extra art though, especially since it's obviously not coming with the new design T T;

Inkmaven

Yeah! Fair point there, I also think valuing based on extra art might be easy to manipulate as well (i.e. you might see people like, intentionally adding art to their gallery to eventually exchange for rare traits or something?) I'm not sure, but yeah!

Maybe you can also appraise designs for folks based on how hard or easy you think they will be to upgrade, and make an initial offer (i.e. "I'll give you a Common + 2SR for this design) and then leave it up to the person to accept or decline? Idk. I'm glad you like the idea though! I think it would make the turn in a little more exciting, and you might see different types of designs turned in than in past events if there's added incentive for it.