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Paradrake Adopts; what I learned, what I'll do going forward
6 months ago
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All in all, I'd consider this a success, since I still managed to sell all of them, even at the relatively high base price of $100. Compared to the last time I did adopts, this is a big improvement.
But, a lot stuff I thought would happen didn't.
I thought interest would be somewhat spread out across the diverse designs I made, but instead interest generally coalesced around a select few. Except, I don't have even a rough number for those select few, since they were AB'd immediately. The ones that weren't, won on time pretty close to base price. Banana Split being an exception with a comparatively large duration between the first bid and her Autobuy, and Blueberry being and exception because of the person who bought her, specifically.
Tiramisu was going to be an obvious favorite, but I seriously thought that Chocolate would've done better, especially after the work I put into her rework.
Overall, having "big crotch-boobs" was seemingly the most consistent decider of success, which was the most "no shit" realization I've taken from all of this.
Pistachio, Raspberry, and Chocolate had few bidders, and they all had small (or no) teats.
So, the message is clear: if I make more paradrake adopts in the future, I should give them big teats. Any idea I get that does not have big teats is likely to not sell as well.
Whether or not I should even bother making male Paradrakes is another matter; but that could just because of two reasons;
1. The content I normally produce does not attract people who are that interested in getting male characters.
2. Paradrake males don't have a lot of distinct features that make them stand out from normal dragons.
I don't really have any ideas of how to reasonably remedy this.
As for my plans of making Paradrakes an open species: I'm gonna pause that. They will remain a closed species for now.
This means I'll be either directly making Paradrakes for people via commissions, or explicitly giving permission to make/commission their own.
My reasoning is that I'm still not sure there is a greater demand then what I'm reasonably able to produce.
If there's only a dozen or so people who want their own Paradrake (with maybe a new few once in a while trickling in), then I can just do it myself. No problem.
At the end of the day I'm still a fairly small-time artist. Expecting Paradrakes to "take off" like xenoforge's Felkin, let alone Protogens or Sergals, is an unreasonable expectation to set for myself.
So I'm gonna stay in my lane for the forseeable future.
If one of the new owners of a paradrake adopt manages to (unintentionally?) send an overwhelming number of people my way wanting their own paradrake, I'll reconsider this position.
But, a lot stuff I thought would happen didn't.
I thought interest would be somewhat spread out across the diverse designs I made, but instead interest generally coalesced around a select few. Except, I don't have even a rough number for those select few, since they were AB'd immediately. The ones that weren't, won on time pretty close to base price. Banana Split being an exception with a comparatively large duration between the first bid and her Autobuy, and Blueberry being and exception because of the person who bought her, specifically.
Tiramisu was going to be an obvious favorite, but I seriously thought that Chocolate would've done better, especially after the work I put into her rework.
Overall, having "big crotch-boobs" was seemingly the most consistent decider of success, which was the most "no shit" realization I've taken from all of this.
Pistachio, Raspberry, and Chocolate had few bidders, and they all had small (or no) teats.
So, the message is clear: if I make more paradrake adopts in the future, I should give them big teats. Any idea I get that does not have big teats is likely to not sell as well.
Whether or not I should even bother making male Paradrakes is another matter; but that could just because of two reasons;
1. The content I normally produce does not attract people who are that interested in getting male characters.
2. Paradrake males don't have a lot of distinct features that make them stand out from normal dragons.
I don't really have any ideas of how to reasonably remedy this.
As for my plans of making Paradrakes an open species: I'm gonna pause that. They will remain a closed species for now.
This means I'll be either directly making Paradrakes for people via commissions, or explicitly giving permission to make/commission their own.
My reasoning is that I'm still not sure there is a greater demand then what I'm reasonably able to produce.
If there's only a dozen or so people who want their own Paradrake (with maybe a new few once in a while trickling in), then I can just do it myself. No problem.
At the end of the day I'm still a fairly small-time artist. Expecting Paradrakes to "take off" like xenoforge's Felkin, let alone Protogens or Sergals, is an unreasonable expectation to set for myself.
So I'm gonna stay in my lane for the forseeable future.
If one of the new owners of a paradrake adopt manages to (unintentionally?) send an overwhelming number of people my way wanting their own paradrake, I'll reconsider this position.
Not really sure what to do about males either. Unique coloring, patterns, or physical traits to lean into an avian "attractive male" bit? Hefty nuts would be an obvious counterpart to the fat teats but I don't think the appeal quite matches up, lol
I was asking the people who did buy them if they wanted any changes (within reason), and changing Banana's hair color would've been super easy.
I didn't include this option anywhere public because I didn't want people potentially buying, and then demanding big changes. I might just make this public, going forward, with the caveat that you should be willing to accept the character as-is if negotiations fall through.
You basically can't go wrong with earthy-tones, yeah. Like half my OCs are predominantly some combination of orange, brown, or creamy-white.
The problem with the males is I don't really have anything to "give" them that wouldn't just be a variation within the already set bounds.
I think it's moreso I make stuff that mostly appeals to straight or "straight-coded". Hypothetically, if I made a whole lot more full-on gay stuff, I would probably have a bigger audience who would've been interested in them. But I don't, so interest is limited. I bet if I made a super girly paradrake femboy it would do a lot better than some kind of hunkier paradrake himbo, simply because people who would be interested in the latter do not know about it.
But yeah, any colors that drift too far away from natural hues kinda put me off, though hair and manes are a bit more likely to get a pass than fur.
Won't really speak on attractive male design as I'm not at all qualified to give an opinion :p I will say that a lot of beefy male dragon designs hit for me, but I'm looking at them through a specific lens, lol
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