Since joining this website three years ago, I've bonded with familiars daily and made a big effort to acquire every familiar possible. At the beginning, the chests this provided were a major source of income for me. Now I have every familiar except for a handful from the gem marketplace, a couple of bosses, and the retired familiars. I'm down to my last twenty or so which aren't awakened.
The site regularly introduces new familiars which is great, but I don't think it's really possible to introduce them quickly enough for long-time users to be able to get new ones for all their dragons. The result is, after years of hard work, there's a bunch of "completed" familiars who no longer pay out (the gold you receive each day from bonding is negligible). I feel like awakened familiars should give you an ongoing reward instead of becoming useless.
The problems with awakened familiars:
(1) No one except for the owner can see that they're awakened, so it doesn't have a cool display factor or show the time I've put in.
(2) No longer provide income in the form of chests, thereby making them less lucrative and redundant in terms of gameplay.
The solutions:
(1) Display the level of affection of a dragon's familiar in the corner to all users so it carries some prestige (maybe a pretty icon)
(2) Introduce a feature where you can use your awakened familiars (I'm thinking maybe you can send familiars out on missions to collect items and the higher the affection level the better the rewards)
(3) Introduce an item which, for a reasonable price (preferably in treasure), can reset the affection progress of a familiar. That way it doesn't feel over when a familiar is awakened.
(4) Make awakened familiars have a small chance of also giving a rusted treasure chest or maybe some gems. It's really sad to know that the familiar will never give out a chest ever again.
tl;dr: Awakened familiars need something to do, to be able to be reset, or to at least be visibly awakened, otherwise the maximum level makes them sadly redundant in gameplay.
The site regularly introduces new familiars which is great, but I don't think it's really possible to introduce them quickly enough for long-time users to be able to get new ones for all their dragons. The result is, after years of hard work, there's a bunch of "completed" familiars who no longer pay out (the gold you receive each day from bonding is negligible). I feel like awakened familiars should give you an ongoing reward instead of becoming useless.
The problems with awakened familiars:
(1) No one except for the owner can see that they're awakened, so it doesn't have a cool display factor or show the time I've put in.
(2) No longer provide income in the form of chests, thereby making them less lucrative and redundant in terms of gameplay.
The solutions:
(1) Display the level of affection of a dragon's familiar in the corner to all users so it carries some prestige (maybe a pretty icon)
(2) Introduce a feature where you can use your awakened familiars (I'm thinking maybe you can send familiars out on missions to collect items and the higher the affection level the better the rewards)
(3) Introduce an item which, for a reasonable price (preferably in treasure), can reset the affection progress of a familiar. That way it doesn't feel over when a familiar is awakened.
(4) Make awakened familiars have a small chance of also giving a rusted treasure chest or maybe some gems. It's really sad to know that the familiar will never give out a chest ever again.
tl;dr: Awakened familiars need something to do, to be able to be reset, or to at least be visibly awakened, otherwise the maximum level makes them sadly redundant in gameplay.