Say for example I go on a shell and adopt pets from the pound with crappy names that no one wants. Every time I adopt a pet, does a new pet get put out into the search thing? Would doing this on a massive scale raise the chances for the rarer old pets from old frozen accounts to be released? What do you guys think?
If your account gets frozen the pets get frozen too. Once an account is frozen the pets are gone forever.
I don't think that's the case. What about all the pets in pound_release then? Don't they adopt out the pets from frozen accounts after it's been a long time?
Nope. Again...Once the account is frozen, the pets are gone with it. FOREVER. Think about it...If you self-ice your account and you have some pretty cool pets (Draiks, Krawks, Painted pets, etc.) and then after 5 years you dont come back so TNT just decides to throw your pets away because they dont think your coming back. Then you suddenly decide to come back and your hard earned pets are gone because you were inactive...? No.
Well, in my experience, that isn't *entirely* true. If pets disappeared after they were frozen, then why is it that when you get your account unfrozen the pets are still there? They stay there for awhile. I know I know what you mean because I had an old account that was frozen some time in like 2002. I came back and emailed them in like 2007 and asked about the account and what the possibilities of it getting unfrozen were. And I only asked because I had made a new account and looked up the old account and pets on it. I could view the pets' profiles but it said that their owner was frozen. So they clearly still existed. However, after exchanging a couple of emails with one of the employees, they suddenly said something about not being able to find the account. I get the feeling they fucked up and got it deleted when looking through the database, but whatever. After that I just remade the account & pets I remembered. BUT that's completely off topic anyway! What I'm talking about is this: does the pound cycle through pets or have only a certain number of pets out every so often? If so, would it be possible to get rid of pets that have crappy names like 387429fjds8329 by adopting them on shells so that ones with better names could appear. Like if the pound was all the sudden empty, do you think that pound_release would put its pets in the pound instead of waiting till the 9:47 am/pm or whatever time.
Pound_release ONLY releases at 9:47 and when it does get released the pets get instantly snagged by other players. Clearing the pound would be near impossible since people pound their pets every other minute.
Ok lets think of it this way. YOU have an account with a Draik on it. You decide that you wat to do something else wit your life and self ice the acccount. Then aftr 3 years of you not coming back TNT decides to put your Draik in the pound. Then I see it and I adopt it. But then a year later you decide to come back to neopets and you un ice your account...Then what happens with the pet. Does the Draik run away from my account and go to your account? No. It is not possible.