What happened to the writing adoptions? O_o

[Dawby]

Happy Birthday!

For me, I think it worked the other way around. I never had a scanner when I was heavily into adoptions, so I never did any of my own adoption agencies, but I had long complicated, interwoven pages meandering around a fictitious island where my babies all lived, which was never finished and which was always being redone and moved around so much that going into college, I created a sort of guidebook for all my adoptedses, so that as stuff moved around, at least there would be one page where you could be guaranteed to find a specific creature. I still have both, and the more "rp" feeling one is of course still not finished, though it is pretty durn close. So yeah, I'm sorta guilt of stats pages.

[Indy]

Yes, a lot of candidate-based agencies have only a selection of adult images in various colors, and they hand out the colors based on the candidates. Usually, I will avoid this, but if the information and art quality are spectacular, I might be tempted.

Agencies that have a selection of adult images in various colors and types/levels are more appealing, especially if the information is good. I could be tempted.

Places that offer stages of growth in different colors and types are even better. Glenn Dragons fall into this category, and there were a few other dragon species that used to, although their sites aren't active anymore. I would definitely go for something like this, even with recycled outlines. Being able to influence color and type, as well as have a few stages to work with, is a good reward for writing.

Agencies that offer stages of growth, different colors/types/mutations, with unique outlines are very rare. Bishen Realm is an agency like that, which is why I require extensive writing for candidates. It takes a lot of my time to do all the dragons, so small clutches, lots of emphasis on writing and developing your dragon. I /love/ stuff like this, but there are very few agencies out there, probably because of the time it takes on the part of the adopter and the artist. These are the best creatures to work into my huge stories.

With me, the major thing is writing and having that affect the way the creature develops. Even if the art isn't top notch, I will still be tempted to adopt if the agency has a good variation in its colors/types and good information. I love complicated things... lol I did find a few good dragon agencies at The Nexus link that Myr dropped, so I'll have to start dropping by that board and finding agencies that don't frown upon my complex novels... haha

Edit: Oh, as for click-and-takes, I use those as filler characters in my stories. The art quality has to be good though... for example, I love Skyhaven. It's a great place to find interesting creatures for my stories.

[sera]

heh. growing adoptions are cool. ^^ i've always wanted to try one *remembers old naa foal stages. *.*;;;* but it never came together. hehe ah, well, maybe someday, ne? ^~

*chews on indy b/c she can*

[Myrror]

They are cool. But they take forever--not just the drawing, but the adopting. Getting people to update so they can grow, finding new adopters when they don't, people not updating the images.

Yah, going to adult only was one way to keep my sanity (which I'm lossing slowly now). I do have one growing critter--but you have to be a loyal adopter in order to get it.

[sera]

*glompchews myr* *nods* that makes sense.

sanity is /so/ overrated. ^^;;;;

[Indy]

*snickers* Oh, yes, occasionally I have to go on "Wrath of the Mighty Gratira" rampages to organize dragon updatess and readopt out abandoned ones... but luckily, most of my adopters are pretty good, and because I'm so lenient with updating restrictions, dragons don't tend to get abandoned very often. Although the rules say "one week", that usually means "until I get fed up with your excuses"... Seriously, some people are still working on their stories from 2001, and I don't mind, so long as their stat pages are updated. XD

[ixris]

Indy said:

...I'm so lenient with updating restrictions, dragons don't tend to get abandoned very often. Although the rules say "one week", that usually means "until I get fed up with your excuses"... Seriously, some people are still working on their stories from 2001, and I don't mind, so long as their stat pages are updated. XD

gunnhild: *glares at lilu*
lilu: *totally has no idea how to end that story*
gunnhild: *gets ticked off and rift clouds over to play with devgan, who isn't so flakey as to completely and totally forget about her all the time*
lilu: *LOOKS INNOCENT*

meanwhile, XD elsewhere, I think I need to go update things. <3