I feel like right now packs serve little function. The only thing I've noticed differentiating all of them mechanically is just which private forum you have access to and what cosmetic you get on your posts. The pack you choose doesn't impact the story at all (at least not now) and you're able to do every single packs quest line regardless of the one you chose. Which I do appreciate that the story isn't locked, but it makes your pack choice functionally pointless. I think the site would benefit from something like pack based events, like what pack can farm the most corn in a period of time or something for rewards. Something to make packs matter and give the community more reason to care about them.

I like this idea. There's so much potential to add some friendly competition, engagement and loyalty!

Support! I'd love to be able to engage a bit more with my fellow Goldsea members and enjoy some light friendly competition with the others.

I would only support these if they lack any real reward or there's a pity for losing (as long as the pack puts effort in) so that it doesn't turn out like flight rising's dominance issues.

It could also lead to issues like people shaming those that don't contribute enough (for example not farming in an optimal way.)

I actually kinda do wish the Campaign was pack-locked right now, at least until the Campaign was over, just to give packs something besides a private forum board. Icerun's isn't active at all, presumably because there's apparently private pack channels in the official Discord. I'm not in the server though, so it just seems like something to decorates my forum post right now. The fact that pack changes right now cost moonstones is strange seeing there's no benefit to being in one pack over the other right now.

I assume as time goes on and things are driven in more of a story-direction, the pack you choose will start playing a role, but it'd be nice to have something right now!

I would like to see packs be more meaningful but I don't know if competitions are the way to go about it.

I think it would be better if it was just that certain things weren't accessible unless you belong to a certain pack. Ex, maybe have some of the future higher-level maps be pack-locked, and there would be certain drops that can only be found there. The items should have a variety of rarities but none so rare that players would be unwilling to trade them to other packs. This would actually encourage cooperation which I think would be nice.

I also thought it could be fun to have little pack holidays where pack members get gifts. The quality of the rewards would depend on how long the player had been in the pack to dis-incentivize pack-hopping, with a cap of maybe six months so players don't feel locked into a pack forever.

@Ninetales

Darkspine's is pretty dead also ;; Only 11 threads. I'm not in the discord either so I have no idea what's going on over there, but the community is basically nonexistent on the site itself.

Adding onto my original idea, I think competitions are good as long as they aren't punishing. There should only be reward and not consequence, otherwise that causes infighting and drama like darkrat described. But I think having no competition at all wouldn't be good either, because while a lot of people aren't into competition events (myself included!) its a massive draw for a significant portion of petsite userbases from my experiences. Personally I enjoy none of the story being locked because I think that skews the experience for everyone a bit otherwise but I really like the idea of pack holidays. I think pack shops or something would be a good idea too, like a vendor that only sells certain stock to certain packs. That could also help the economy a bit and encourage trading between users to get different pack exclusive items.

11's pretty chatty! Icerun has 5, including the two stickies. :P

I think competition is fine, there could be site-wide competitions where the packs are teams. There'd just need careful balance for pack-sizes because overtime people will favor in one direction, especially if site-side competitions have juicy rewards. Don't want anyone losing before it even starts.

i think a meet the pack founder of whichever pack you chose would be a cool campaign event

Yes please, support! I don't know what would be better between competitions, exclusive stuff or something else but I too feel that right now packs are…kind of useless sadly.

Beside the forum posts decorations and acces to one private forum board, choosing a pack doesn't really have a purpose right now since you can play all the other packs campaign (and I like that, but is still something that could be used to give purpose to choosing a pack), there aren't pack themed holidays/events and even on the wolf page the pack banner changes to reflect the owner's and doesn't keep the one from its original pack (I was so shocked to see the Goldsea banner changing to Darkspine when I got a pup from a Goldensea player before. Like, what's the point of having banners on the wolf page if it doesn't represent it's origin? I see my pack banner everywhere, let them keep theirs XD).

Now I know everyone is tired of comparison with Flight Rising, but on FR flights do have some purpose. There is dominance, there are the holidays (with flight themed familiars, scene, skins and apparels) and a dragon born in a flight still has its original flight symbol (and eye colors) on his page when bought.

We need something like that too, something to build a friendly community spirit around the packs.

I agree with @/Hyatha's point. It's so disappointing that wolves don't keep their pack of origin. Even that, though minimal, would be more fun. It's probably not the sort of change that could be back-dated but I wouldn't mind that.

Also, 11 being a chatty amount of pack-exclusive posts is so funny to me, if a little tragic.