Why GoPets and its community ROCKS!

Lately I wasn’t feeling good so I haven’t posted much. I was starting to feel tired and I know I needed to do something to take my mind of everything that has been bothering me for the past weeks and since the trip to Puerto isn’t up yet I had to find another way to enjoy myself. I used to play GoPets back then. I had taken a long hiatus from the game since last February 2007 since I was experiencing my cluster headache crisis plus the problems I had with my leave of absences at the university I decided to check it out again even when I knew there would be so many changes and many people probably had forgotten me.

In case you don’t know what GoPets is, the homepage says :

GoPets is a community that is made up of both real people and virtual 3D pets that live on their owners’ desktops. Each GoPet is a visually and emotionally unique creature that eats, sleeps, and plays with its owner. When a GoPet gets bored or restless, it leaves its home desktop to wander the net, visiting the desktops of other GoPets users.

When it travels, your GoPet visits your close friends and also introduces you to other users with similar interests. The GoPets service provides several modes of communication (including Instant Chat, web messages, and IKU, a unique icon-based message system) that you can use to strengthen your ties to your friends.

You can purchase items for your and other users’ GoPets through the Shopping link of the GoPets website. Items can be purchased using Shells, the GoPets currency. There are three kinds of Shells: Gold, Pink, and Green. Green Shells are automatically earned through activity in the GoPets service (for example, just staying logged in to GoPets earns you a continuous trickle of Green Shells), while Pink Shells are given to users who undertake creative activities (like making new IKU icons). Gold Shells are purchased using real money. Each kind of Shell can be used to purchase particular items at GoPets stores (some items have Green Shell prices, some have Pink, and some have Gold).

When I got back at the forums, it was like coming back home. Though there are many new players and a lot of the old players I knew had left, much of the community I know still exists. I was welcomed by old players such as Asynjur, Meep, Shirley and Chii who have been my friends there. I was having client troubles but Asynjur helped me so much that I am very thankful to her. I wouldn’t have gotten the new installer without her help. After installing and logging in, I was really overwhelmed by the changes that had happened. Good thing many players were again there to help me out and thats why I’ve started to enjoy the game once again. There is a new specie already which are Pandas which can be adopted using MSN and boy are they cute. xD I have 4 pets already 3 of which are female cats and one male dog.

I have taught my pets crafting. My Pixie is a farmer, Minea is a chef, Benjie Bean is a fisher while Celeine is learning to tailor. Its hard at first but with the help of the GP community I was able to start over and get into the changes. One of the most significant changes would be GoLand. In here we can now have 10 lands each and travel there as well to our friends lands to check their desktops. We can finally setup our favorite theme lands without having to get alternate accounts. My main land is currently under construction since I’m trying to make it my farm where I can harvest fruits and plants with Pixie, so Minea would have ingredients for her cooking and Celeine for her tailoring.

Here’s a screenshot of my two sheeps and my banana trees:

The sheep drops fleece which is picked up by my farmer and then used by my tailor. The banana trees drop bananas which my chef uses in making her banana split recipes.

This is my other land which is at 118, 134 which will be used for my April Fools Birthday Beach Party in GoPets:

The pets have many stuff to play with there since I filled it with toys and other beach stuff. (I’m just too excited for my outing that I had to make a beach land in GoPets, hehe.)

Look at Pixie cook barbecue while Celeine rests and looks at the wonderful beach view:

Below, Pixie got a bit tired cooking so she went and started playing with an RC car that we won before when the new minigames such as Eets and Diner Dash were first released in GoPets. (Yup we can play the DinerDash2 and Eets full versions by paying with gold shells. Wheeee!)

Then I saw Minea lounging around in one of the hammocks there sleeping lazily while her Sad Penguin micropet (which I really think looks like Linebeck in Zelda’s Phantom of the Hourglass Nintendo DS game) circles around her.

I then spotted Benjie Bean trying to fish in the Arid Pond we bought earlier while Celeine rests on the hammock after using the Jungle Swing. (The Jungle Swing is an old premium item its the huge tree there.)

After that muscle-aching fishing trying to catch some trouts, Benjie decided to go try the diving pond and rejuvenate his sore muscles. xD

At least I can enjoy the beach with my babies right now. xD I can experience the real thing once Kath and I push through with our vacation. Since my birthday is on the April 1st, I’ll be celebrating it in GoPets too so everyone’s pets are invited. Menu consists of many tropical drinks, barbecue as well as desserts and coffee in case some pets get too much of these “drinks” and can’t drive home to their owner’s lands. xD

P.S. In case you are interested to try it out, please join through my inviter link ok? ^^

CLICK HERE TO JOIN GOPETS

Do send me a message in case you are lost or something and I’ll try my best to help you out. I can also help you start out with a few green shells and some food to help you level up.^^ My beach land is also always open for visitors so you can bring your pets there to play and eat. I place food and drinks there at different times when I log-in so it will help in your leveling.

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