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This is a long post, please bear with me.

Okay, you all know how there's a topic in General Chat about names getting freed up? Well, apparently they are because I just checked for a name that I originally thought up for my Spotted Koi, in case sometime in the future TNT let us change the names of our pets. It wasn't available then, but it is now. And I'm pretty sure it won't stay available for long.

So here's my problem, and why I can't just go create a pet with that name right now.

Roughly 41 months ago or so, I had just started playing Neopets. I had already created my first pet, an Acara (still have her). I wanted a friend for her, but decided to adopt a pet from the pound instead of creating another one. So I go there, and I come across this Blue Gelert named Drilax. He was probably the only pet in there with a decent name at the time, but was still languishing there for some reason. If I had to take a guess, it was probably because his stats were awful. Felt sorry for him, all the other names were stupid, so I adopted him.

Over the course of the next three years, he gets stronger via faerie quests, occasional training, and later by the lab ray, as I buy a map and zap him in the hopes of turning him Grey (he was still a Gelert at this point), which so far is still the only Gelert color that I really like and would fit his name and the kind of serious personality he'd 'developed' over time.

Drilax never turned Grey. He did, however, turn into a Koi, which threw me for a loop. I loved Spotted Kois then and now, and whoa, now I've actually got a chance to get one. Then I get a FF Quest. *heart attack* At the time, I'd met all my other pet painting goals. So, I use it to paint him spotted, thinking I shouldn't look two gift horses in the mouth. I'd given up on turning him into a Grey Gelert, as it would just be too expensive, even with the FF Quest.

But now? I sort of want to now, anyway. Now that this name I want is free, I want to move Drilax to a side and eventually paint him to what he originally was going to be, then create a new pet with this name and lab and train him to, well, be the fighting spotted Koi Drilax is now. But it's not going to be that easy. Go ahead and look up Drilax, and you'll see why. Look at that level. That adoption fee is going to be INSANE. Plus it'll take MORE NP to morph and paint him. I've never saved up over 2 million in my LIFE. Then I'll need MORE NP to train the new pet (though I've already got lab access on my main) and get him back up to speed.

So it would cost a lot to do all that, but I'd have the perfect name for both pets (and two dream pets, eventually). I don't want to reveal the name here because I don't want it taken until I make up my mind, but trust me, it would fit. him. to. a. friggin. TEE.

I'm sorry to have rambled on so much over a minor problem, but it's driving me nuts and I don't know if I should risk losing a pet I've invested so much time and NP in just because his name doesn't fit. What I want more than anything is just to have a programmer from TNT change Drilax's name right now, but that'll never happen. (Will it? There's *nothing* in Neopia with the name, not even an account...) What should I DO?

Wait, i'm lost. Do you not have room on your current account to make the pets you want? Or does Drilax's name not match the kind of pet you want him to be? If you don't have room, make a new account for the other pets you want to have. I wouldn't risk losing a pet I've worked hard on. You would regret it if you lost him, trust me.

You couldn't keep all three pets on the same account, and just change drilax's species/color on the account you have?...even if it's something lame (color wise) like a blue koi til you can save up for your dream pet. Or do you already have four pets on your main?

Anyway, I see it as you'll probably regret passing up the name eventually. If you can't decided what to do with Drilax, just create the new pet on a side account, just in case, or at least til you figure out what to do.

I'm a little confused, but I can say this: If you don't have room for a pet with your dream name,
I'd be delighted if I could help. I could hold the pet on a sideaccount for you, if you'd wish. :3

Otherwise.. I don't completely understand but.. I'd say go for your dream name if it's
really important to you. D:

Heh, sorry guys, for not being entirely clear. I guess I was just so excited by seeing that name free that my mind was all over the place.



The problem is both, actually. I've already got four pets on my main account. Drilax's name doesn't quite fit him as he is right now. I mean, it's an okay name, not like it's got a bunch of numbers in it or anything. But this name I'm talking about, the one that's free, would fit him a LOT better.

Like I said, it's embarassingly picky of me. Most people probably would not even fuss with it. But I'm a lot pickier with names now - I love it when I can create a name that sums up pretty much everything about the pet.



I've already got 5 accounts. ^^; Otherwise, yeah, I'd do that in a heartbeat. 4 accounts are full right now, and the last one has 3 pets.

The reason I wanted the new pet on my main is because it'd be easier to train and change him there, as I have access to the lab that's just not being used. But I do agree with you about risking an older pet. I actually did lose one in a transfer once, back when poundsnipers were a much bigger problem than they are now, and I was pretty upset for a short time. Losing Drilax would be much worse. And because of that...



....I'm seriously considering just doing this, and creating the new pet on a side until I can work something out.

JC, thanks for the offer and the response.

Well I would create the pet anyway on a side. You never know if someone would guess the name or...well great minds think alike so someone out there might think like you and think of the name and everything and get it and then you'd wish you'd gotten it anyway.

No problem.



I completely agree and understand. My pets' names all reflect their personality, even if it isn't obvious. I really build up my pet's personalities because of many reasons; fun, functionality, and the NT comic I'm working on. I think it's a huge, vital part of Neopets. I don't think I'd still be playing if my pets didn't have some sort of personality or quirks about them.

And.. well.. without offering an insanely long explanation and picking apart said personality, if Honekun wasn't called Honekun, I don't think I'd be as attached to him like I am.

If you don't want to risk transferring Drilax, do you have another pet on the account you can transfer to free up a space? Perhaps one that's level is lower, isn't painted, or isn't as special to you?

I'd go for the name, one way or another. I know how you feel about names, I've very picky about them too. I consider names to be the most important thing about a pet, because they are the only things which can't be changed, and good names are so hard to come by. When I come across someone's lookup, I am more impressed by cool pet names than I am buy LE pets, expensive colors, or trophies.

I'm the same way Meer. x-x I have a pet named __pyewackett__, he's my first pet...but his name drives me insane. So when I'm able, I'm moving him to a side. I love him to much to let him go, but I can't stand seeing that name all the time. Now that I have pyewackette (sadly not capitlized) I can move her in his place, and just zap her 'til she's male and the species/colour I want. Her age fits his story better anyway. It makes me feel awful, knowing I'm such a name snob, but I simply get so picky about names with underscores and numbers.

And I love going to someone's lookup and seeing pets with excellent names, capitalized, no numbers or underscores...It is impressive, because it shows creativity and the thought they put into creating the pet. I am more impressed by an account with four unpainted, well-named pets, than an account with four plushie/royal/insertrarecolourhere pets that have 019402938420 after their names.

Sorry, this is a couple days old, but in case anyone was wondering what I finally did...

I wound up creating a pet with the name I wanted. He's sitting on a side now, name's Koitaro if you want to look him up. (It's a pun, see, from the Japanese name Keitaro, meaning "blessed." Taro = common male name ending, and well, he'd be a Koi.) He's not much to look at now, though - poor Flostams need a revamp.

I failed to mention (...okay, honestly, in my excitement, I forgot >< ) that I actually have lab access on two of my accounts: my main and my oldest side. The lab on my main hasn't been used in over a year, as I had no reason to (all my pets were painted how I wanted them at the time, and I didn't want to risk changing colors or species).

My oldest side also has a lab ray that's currently being used to zap pets that I adopt from the pound and, when they turn into something someone wants, give away to permanent homes. It's lots of fun for me to be able to give someone a dream pet, since I've already got most of mine. Therefore, I like to keep an open space or two on that account for zappable pets.

But anyway, back on topic...I have decided that, whether Drilax stays as he is or I change him, he's not moving. I've invested too much time and NP to risk losing him. If I do decide to make him into a Grey Gelert, I'm just going to dust off the lab ray on my main and target zap until I can either afford to morph and paint him, or the impossible happens and I actually get Grey from the lab.

As for the new pet - I'll either make some space on my side lab account for him and target zap, OR just keep him where he is and save up for a Koi Transmog + Spotted PB, which I'm pretty sure I can save up for in a reasonable amount of time. It's the multi-million NP+ PBs I tend to not have much patience for.

What's sad and embarassing, though, is I'm still trying to decide if this is in fact what I want to do, and if it is, where it fits among my other priorities. May not put this plan into motion for a good long while. But, as someone else said, I did get the name, so at least there's not going to be any regret over not getting it.