Post by dreamseeker on Sept 17, 2013 20:27:24 GMT -5
Well, um.
Hello.
I... just found out that I wasn't the only one still playing this game.
It's still a bit of a shock.
I'm Song, or Dreamseeker. I don't care which.
It's been a looong time since I had anything to do with the online petz community, but I have been diligently playing on my own.
I don't know what the average age range is around here, but given how old these games are, maybe it's not too crazy that I started playing before Petz 3 came out. In, what was it, 1998? Good grief...
All that I-Feel-Old stuff aside, I've gone through three major returns to the game, triggered by changing computers. In the very beginning, I had no precise goal for breeding, but within my original family of catz there was one individual who just plain stunned me with her looks. She had a body-type somewhere between her Calico and Russian Blue grandparents, with the orange-brown speckles over white that you sometimes get when mixing Main Coons with solid-colored cats. It was the first time I'd seen that pattern. It stood out to me as the most unique mixing result out of all my experiments.
When that computer died, I lost the first family, including that one. A few years later, in my second try at avid playing, I focused on trying to recreate her. It didn't take too long, and the process resulted in several other variations of that coat pattern I was so fond of. I took to calling them Pandora Catz, as the original one had been named Pandora.
Much to my disappointment, all the old kennel and show sites I'd known had closed down by then, so I was left breeding Pandora catz all by my lonesome.
Then I moved away for college and left the family PC behind. For another few years, I only had Macs, and couldn't play the original Petz games. A lot of my files have since been cleared off that old computer, so the catz were once again lost.
This year, I finally bought a new PC, and the breeding has begun anew. I don't have a perfect Pandora yet, but I'll get there. In the meantime I've got some new friends I've grown attached to, and now that I know the rest of you folk are still out there, I look forward to showing them.
I'm kind of a purest when it comes to selective breeding vs. hexing. Hexes are awesome, don't get me wrong, but I've always been more satisfied when I get what I want solely by using what the game provides.
Part of this does stem from the fact that all the old fan sites closed down and I was unable to find and replace the files for the petz I'd had who were hexes, or hex mixes. There's a bit of old paranoia attached to that loss.
This just means I'll admire hexes, and even keep a few of my own, but any petz I show or devote to long-term breeding projects will be purely derived from the original, unaltered breeds.
That got a bit long. Sorry.
Um.
Yes.
Hello.
I... just found out that I wasn't the only one still playing this game.
It's still a bit of a shock.
I'm Song, or Dreamseeker. I don't care which.
It's been a looong time since I had anything to do with the online petz community, but I have been diligently playing on my own.
I don't know what the average age range is around here, but given how old these games are, maybe it's not too crazy that I started playing before Petz 3 came out. In, what was it, 1998? Good grief...
All that I-Feel-Old stuff aside, I've gone through three major returns to the game, triggered by changing computers. In the very beginning, I had no precise goal for breeding, but within my original family of catz there was one individual who just plain stunned me with her looks. She had a body-type somewhere between her Calico and Russian Blue grandparents, with the orange-brown speckles over white that you sometimes get when mixing Main Coons with solid-colored cats. It was the first time I'd seen that pattern. It stood out to me as the most unique mixing result out of all my experiments.
When that computer died, I lost the first family, including that one. A few years later, in my second try at avid playing, I focused on trying to recreate her. It didn't take too long, and the process resulted in several other variations of that coat pattern I was so fond of. I took to calling them Pandora Catz, as the original one had been named Pandora.
Much to my disappointment, all the old kennel and show sites I'd known had closed down by then, so I was left breeding Pandora catz all by my lonesome.
Then I moved away for college and left the family PC behind. For another few years, I only had Macs, and couldn't play the original Petz games. A lot of my files have since been cleared off that old computer, so the catz were once again lost.
This year, I finally bought a new PC, and the breeding has begun anew. I don't have a perfect Pandora yet, but I'll get there. In the meantime I've got some new friends I've grown attached to, and now that I know the rest of you folk are still out there, I look forward to showing them.
I'm kind of a purest when it comes to selective breeding vs. hexing. Hexes are awesome, don't get me wrong, but I've always been more satisfied when I get what I want solely by using what the game provides.
Part of this does stem from the fact that all the old fan sites closed down and I was unable to find and replace the files for the petz I'd had who were hexes, or hex mixes. There's a bit of old paranoia attached to that loss.
This just means I'll admire hexes, and even keep a few of my own, but any petz I show or devote to long-term breeding projects will be purely derived from the original, unaltered breeds.
That got a bit long. Sorry.
Um.
Yes.