The concept has 3 main components to it, but primarily consists of a hybrid between traditional pet sites and card collecting.
Pet/Card Collecting
So pets and the cards themselves are initially collected separately, but can be combined. The cards themselves are more background treatments if anything, until combined with a pet. Each set of packs we release would have a specific theme to it and would release with a number of unique pets, unique pet skins, and unique cards. The twist is that each of these item types actually have their own drop rate and will come in limited numbers. If you combine the correct pet, skin, and card background, you create the rare card it's meant to be and the rarity is more than the rarity of each of those items separately.Trading/Selling
Beyond just collecting packs, you can also trade pets/cards/skins as well as put them up for sale, or purchase them for a set price by other users. Additionally, the system would allow you to destroy cards and get currency back directly. This would be a quicker way of getting currency, but the exchange rate would be a set amount and generally probably not as profitable as selling manually. Mostly useful for getting rid of a lot of low-end duplicates.Chat
Collecting is a social experience in my opinion. Showing off your prized collection and getting to see what rare items other people have is part of the excitement. So one component of this concept would be a sort of Discord chat system. This allows people to be more active and chat synchronously than traditional forums (like VPL) usually offer. There would be a sort of user card next to everyone in order to show their best cards and other cosmetics (like avatars).Misc. Ideas
- Seaon-based leaderboards. With each season, new sets are released and users are ranked against each other based on who has the most items collected. Users would get awards based on ranking certain rank tiers within a season.
- Events and/or Drops. Events that are either time-limited (ex. you only have 10 minutes to participate), or you must perform certain actions to participate. The items in these events/drops would be unique and maybe happen a few times throughout a season.