The 8th (eighth!!! Wow!!!!) anniversary is fast approaching, so! What sort of feature do you think we're going to get? What are you hoping for? And what's your totally unrealistic wish that you'd LOVE to see?
I took a look back at my speculation post last year, and a lot of the things we were hoping for got added, notably a pose change scroll, the world map update, the hoard update (with SEARCH!)-- and a lot of us called a backdrop update, too! I had a hard time thinking of things that could be added between all of these, but I still managed to compile some tidbits of speculation from suggestions and hints.
Here's a few things that we could possibly suspect:
There's a number of things that are all but deconfirmed and/or seem to be Way too early in development:
I took a look back at my speculation post last year, and a lot of the things we were hoping for got added, notably a pose change scroll, the world map update, the hoard update (with SEARCH!)-- and a lot of us called a backdrop update, too! I had a hard time thinking of things that could be added between all of these, but I still managed to compile some tidbits of speculation from suggestions and hints.
Here's a few things that we could possibly suspect:
- Gotta mention a new modern breed, right? We have no clue where it is in development, though (the last update was in January 2020), so this is a pretty shaky possibility-- especially considering how the apparel & gene backlog has been continually increasing.
- A festival revamp would be intriguing, and it'd be best to get it over with at the beginning of a festival cycle. More ways to get festival currency? More forms of festival currency-- or would that be overcomplicating things?
- Some sort of Tidelord-centered lore update, though this'd probably go best alongside something else.
- Speaking of things that go best alongside other things, we'll inevitably get some sort of familiar or apparel set alongside whatever the Big Thing is!
- A new ancient is a perfectly plausible possibility! Possible flights include: Earth, Nature, Arcane, Plague, Water, or Lightning.
- Achievements update/revamp!
- A major site artwork update! To clarify, this'd be for things like the flight banners, and also the world map background sidebars. In the wake of the world map update, they very clearly need an update, but I don't know if they might be tangled in any other site code.
- Eliminate... 2! /j
There's a number of things that are all but deconfirmed and/or seem to be Way too early in development:
- Adventure mode, which (according to the last Ask The Team segment) is very, Very early in development. It hasn't been scrapped, though!
- Large UI updates that affect the whole site (e.g. dark mode or other "themes"). A previous post by Xhaztol mentions that the site rebuild would essentially have to be completed before such a thing could happen.
- There's absolutely no hint that permababy skins could be a thing, but... why not!