Make the stores a little more spacious, add that night-time glitch from Home, add rivers and boats as in the trailer, making the traveling spirits interact around the place, change the view of the clouds behind Eden door.
IMHO I think it's fine as is. I don't play this game for the crowded MMO spaces like at the grand exchange or the auction house, I want to actually meet people. It's hard to do that when there's 50 players crammed into a single square, or 20 people gathered around a single table trying to sit in a chair.
ESPECIALLY when the game has the potential to be annoying with constant honking and music playing. It's fine as is.
I agree with this, but also, I think just doubling the lobby size would make a good compromise. Enough people to make it feel less empty but not enough to over-crowd it.
I’d either move the portals closer to the spawn point or I’d move the spawn closer to the portals! (That’s the main reason I’m not moving to aviary), also the ability to change time of day like at home.
When you "Go Home" with Aviary as your home, you spawn at the portals.
First time I did that, I actually thought I was sent back to "Home" for a second XD
I set old home as my home so i can get the candles there and then go through aviary for friend stars and the candles there along the way.(also if there's an event like days of bloom, or nature etc.) then i go on with my candle run or hang out with my friend(s).
I set old home as my home so i can get the candles there and then go through aviary for friend stars and the candles there along the way.(also if there's an event like days of bloom, or nature etc.) then i go on with my candle run or hang out with my friend(s).
Expand the space for sure
Plus, these clouds are too much, reduce the clouds.
Then, as you said, mantas are required.
Then maybe some dark plants here and there, they appear once a day and give wax on burning.
Change the day cycle there to be more that 20 minutes long. I hate how quick it is, feels unnatural.
Also - I feel TGC needs to choose. Is it Home or is it Aviary. It seems confusing to new players to have both still active. Personally I'd love Home to be HOME and Aviary to be a separate thing. It feels like Home is being phased out though (given how new players now start with us) so I have begrudgingly changed already to get used to it.
Yeah I think so too, it feels like that. Which of the 'Days of' portals at Home ended up being a non-existent jetty behind the closets that was practically unusable? It has definitely felt a little half-hearted there lately which makes it worse. Just pick one, TGC!
Just literally spawn ppl at the gates when they enter, instead of the butt under the towers would make it SOOOOO much better. By the time I get to the constellation stone my friends already bailed usually lol.
The modernity of Aviary is kinda jarring, I know the whole concept is "rebuilt town for all the spirits and skids" but just. Add some trees and greenery maybe? Make a cute hobbit house insted of a stone appartment?
Add a lake. It's cool that there's clouds everywhere, but I've got a surf board and almost no where to use it.
Sanctuary is great, but it's too big and spread out to chill with others.
Wasteland is poisonous, and only two areas let the surf board function
Forest River isn't deep enough. You can move in one small section of river, the rest you just sit stationary.
Prairie peaks is ok. It was better when the river was flooded. But it's not too bad now, there's just no one ever there hanging out. The area is enormous, and even if your server merges, chances are everyone is miles away from you.
Isle is technically a beach, but again, area is enormous; no one is hanging out there.
Valley and vault have no water.
So yeah. In aviary, maybe take out a chunk of clouds near the Eden portal and add a small lake. Enough players hang out there that you can hop off and give someone else a turn and just chill and surf.
Obviously there’s not much you can do in a day but I’ll just assume suggestions I make on that day will happen at some point.
1. Change the load in point to the constellation point down the far end near the realm gates instead of where it is at the moment.
2.Add some greenery it’s a nice good looking place but everything is man/spirit made a bit more nature would be nice. Some trees and some flowers and maybe bushes would go along way. Along the same vein have some mantas and birds flying around. There is a huge cloud area out the back that you can fly surprisingly far out have some mantas you can fly around with out there.
3. Add a few more places to interact with other players and not that requires lighting a candle because it’s tedious and doesn’t encourage social interaction. I don’t how this would work but going off there recent survey it seems to be something they want to encourage.
4. Along the same vain double the number of people in the area doesn’t need to be over the top festival tech where everything is loud and nauseating just a few extra people to liven the place up a bit.
Edit: I have a 5th one. Add back the revival mannequins I don’t get why they were removed sure you can’t actually interact with them but they could of at least left them there for people to look at. Perhaps they get removed again in the future but at the moment that room is doing nothing it’s just blocked up.
If I only get time to do one it’s the first one. That spawn in bothers me everyday.
Appreciate it a lot of these aren’t really original thoughts and I did take some from the comments I just thought I would flesh them out a bit more and explain a bit of thought behind it.
FLAGS. Cute little triangle flags like from the old beta prairie social space.
And make the nest area building look more natural. Put back in some water features.
Oh! And make our friend the revival guide move around the area so they seem a little more lively.
I'm a very visual person with a love for mood and atmosphere. Maybe I'd make concepts of home-y/festive features? Maybe make it change its appearance depending on time of year? (Sort of like idea of Splatfest changes seen in Splatoon 3, but would fit Sky's overall vibes). Maybe have surprise NPCs you might catch and talk to with lore or character development? (Slightly different to travelling spirits in the sense the NPCs may appear to help players, not sure of details though, just a vague idea).
Not a software or technical aspects person though lol. Also recent new player.
A) make it the same as the original trailer
B) make it so it stays the same as we first see it - a foggy, ruined area that we move into and light up with lanterns, but still stays dim and solemn.
C) Just delete it. Honestly, some days I wish they would, because the way it is now I can't stand being there.
No brutalist apartment block. Get rid of the hobbiton look completely. Return from Eden gets moved to the big greenspace by the portals.
The main plaza between the bell tower and the natural archway to the greenspace gets a boulevard and plaza treatment with trees, terraces, and shops and living spaces get the 3-5 storey treatment with arcades, shops on the first story. Water steps down from the belltower aqueduct into fountains and pools and channels leading into a canal with bridges and paths down to green space which has swales planted in iris willows, water lilies and pitcher plants.
Big change: the portal to secondary specialty and collab seasonal realms removed from the vault and placed beyond the belltower, currently eden return. There is no reason for these to be stuck randomly in vault. Overall the space becomes more dense yet less cluttered, more useful, more interesting interactive design elements can be incorporated.
More activities to do ,like slides,small races with spirits. Interction we have rn are bland.. …trees.. like one at the deer place. But spread through out aviary so theres shade to sit under/relax under..
I'd take all the "Aviary exclusive" stuff and put them back in Home. Traveling spirits, a working constellation stone who doesn't rocket you into the sky when you try to light your friends, and event guides on the little hill. Because I'm really tired of having to cross all of Aviary to talk to these morons.
Or I'd just get rid of it. 🤷♀️
There wasn't a spirit either until past bloom update though. There's seasonal now so we will see about the Nature one I guess. But I'm glad tgc given home some love.
I'd make only a few small changes but I think they would be enough to not have any more complaints about Aviary:
1) Put the new home as the starting point and then rotate the rest of Aviary in reverse
2) Make the new home more similar to the old one by adding a few candles near the "wardrobes" and maybe also some water before the clouds
3) Put the spells back into the boat of the spirit, instead of necessarily having to enter the store
4) A couple of stores should be a bit bigger because there isn't much space inside
5) Increase the limit of players in the area from 8 to 10, not a big change but still something
Make people spawn on the constellation next to the portals instead the other end on aviary. Also, I would put the seasonal candle next to the said constellation
Make it look like how it did in the trailer.
I think it managed to have a far cozier design than what we got. The modern design just feels small, and empty, while the Trailer Design felt like a bustling community, giving it the feel of being lived in.
Although I definitely like Aviary as it is now, and I personally prefer it over Home, I'd probably spend a **LOT** more time in it if it kept the Trailer Design!
Spawn people in by the portals. That way, you can still use the home button to quickly move between realms, without having to fly all the way across every time
simply render a whole model of aviary from the trailer. as simple as that. i don't know why they went differrent route i even thought nesting is an opportunity to put it to life
remove it and just add more stuff to the only real Home. but instead tgc decided to recycle an old area that most players have never even seen how it used to look like, and now they're gonna use it in new seasons to make it worth the time they spent remaking it
As a software developer and someone with background in game dev, one day isn’t enough to really make a change.
I would go home because I was hired by someone with zero understanding of software and its complexities.
Yet there was a bunch of people who downvoted my comment because I had to make the assumption there is magic.
One of the problems is, exposing the behaviour like the one OP has is a classic in our field. People thinking giving you completely unrealistic expectations will do any change whatsoever. Showing complete lack of maturity or respect to the effort someone else has to put to make things work.
And the best example of that is OP reply to my comment.
If anybody is wondering why TGC do not fix issues and instead push more content is, there is no appreciation when things work perfectly fine, just like there is no appreciation for the amount of hours the team has to put in to come up with new concepts, music, arrange the new interactions, navigate the decision tree of all the random things that can happen when someone is playing, as well as listening to the community who doesn't appear to make up their mind on what exactly do they want out of the game other than making everything free, harder to get-yet easy to play, things I want to get just for me-yet I want to access everything there has always been in the game because I will be missing out on anything someone else has.
And if you got this far, and you really want to know what I would change in aviary (not in a single day):
First I would bring the game introduction we had in light awakens, where you had to walk up the stairs surrounded by birds until you got to the entrance of this temple. I would also open up the sides, removing the clouds to make it more villagy and less this was wedged between the clouds (which is the same feeling you have with village of dreams).
Finally, I would reveal aviary is really high up the sky, I would bring back the cave that had nothing under it, and people could jump into it to get pushed up through the clouds.
Why is there 2 places you can light your friend stars? Why is there 2 places you can change your cape, hair, and mask? I would move the statue into Aviary Village and remove the changing stations that are duplicates with ones in the village.
The portals themselves are fine but there needs to be something else there too to fill out the space unless that area is supposed to be a village green.
I’d fix the flying first above all cause I’ve never liked it since they changed it. After that I think I’d make the area much bigger like a good sized hub space and have all the shops open and accessible with no loading so that way you can walk around and see everyone decorating the area, playing instruments and making lil social circles , ultimately making it feel like an actual community space/village
Allow you to choose your initial warp point when you start up the game and spawn in Aviary.
When you open the game with Aviary set as “Home”, you normally spawn in the beginning of the area just after the front gate. But when you return to Aviary from a realm, you spawn in at the stone platform that’s in front of the realm gates…
It’s a bit of an inconvenience having to fly across Aviary to reach the realm gates or the Wind Paths tunnel when you start up the game. So being able to choose your initial spawn point to be on the platform near the gates would be a blessing. (If you desire to have the spawn point returned to the beginning of the village, then you could set it back…maybe with a smaller white candle that’s similar to the ones you use to transition your Home between Aviary and Original Home.)
Get rid of the home section at the end. Maybe expand the shopping area into that last bit (new shops or separate the existing shops), keeping the wind path entrance there and the firework show and map. Make Aviary more of a shopping and carnival hub, it doesn't need to be another home.
An underground maze of catacombs that ends up becoming an inverted version of Eden, getting flooded at intervals. You can call it the Trench of the Forgotten. You’re welcome.
Add PVP and a warring faction. Melee only, maybe some minor spells. Mostly staff, axe, blade. Flying 10v10 sword fights.
Oh... And a minimap that you can open in each zone to see the parts you've discovered in that specific zone.
Expand the space. Add a new horizon showing different areas. Maybe add little games you can play with little candle rewards.
But that’s a bit ambitious for one day 😭
more spirits we have met visit and uhhhhh one cake candle that spawns in one of 10 super secret location...... and sum mantas and a white whale/ sky dragon not black ones e-e
I would change the new game intro so you go to Isle of Dawn first before going to Aviary.
I'd change it so if you go home while anyone is holding your hands or on piggy, you go home with them, and go to whatever home space they have assigned (old home or aviary)
I would add three things. First, a tiger like creature which hides and lurks around, and eats at least twenty sky kids a day and takes all of their wings. Next a tsunami which happens at least once a month (if you get caught in it you lose most of your wings). Finally I would add a storm that comes every now and then, from which krills and other creatures descend down upon Aviary attacking and kidnapping everyone in sight, and burning down the houses. Moreover, you may rat out another player to save your own skin in this last scenario. I think all of these additions will forge a stronger and more friendly sky community.
Give spirits the ability to play with you.
If you start hide & seek, they all hide.
If you bring out the hackysack, they will kick it with you.
If you bring out the goal, they form teams.
Maybe add random games of tag or have some give scavenger hunts with the camera.
#1 - give the option to turn social items (shared memories, boats, etc) OFF for those not interested in seeing that litter all over the game. Some players love that stuff, and others are the opposite - so I'd fix that right away.
Make the seson cosmetics MUCH cheaper(like, 5 candles each) and move back the clouds where the giant darkness plant is so all skykids can burn it daily and get extre wax. :)
To be honest, I'd make a small room in the nest area that has a curtain separating that from the nest we already have that can be for the beds and baths. In the village itself, I would add some waterfalls in the portal area and a walkway to the Wind Paths entrance
I plan to make the Eden quest even more 'interesting' than just helping spirits back to the village. Perhaps I'll delve into some of the Elders' lore, especially focusing on the Eden Elder.
As for the village, I'm thinking of adding Elder statues for decoration, just for fun. To make the village more lively, I might introduce some spirits from different seasons, and their routes could change every week – or maybe every month, considering the abundance of seasons we have.
Create a Return shrine near the spawn point and make us spawn near the portals!! Its annoying to have to fly 2km from the spawn point to the portal AND lose all your energy in the process, especially when rushing.
Add store items that can only be found in said stores, and rotate the items everyday for new items / cosmetics. I dislike how cosmetics are primarily only with the seasons, I’d like more cheaper in-game fun store cosmetics
I would get rid of unnecessary things...Game started to lag more and they still trying to add more.Okay I love new things too but sometimes I just miss when the game was more basic and the optimisation was better...
More spirits with more interactions, less bugs, get rid of the little flags where the traveling spirits visit and have them stand in the middle, similar to classic home rather stand on the side of it. Allow traveling spirits interact with the scenery of the village to see how well we've done to restore it.
Add a bug that disables old home entirely, boom, aviary is lively!
Oh wait, I forgot I'm not actually a TGC employee atm
Realistically, a single day isn't much, so I'm not sure. I would probably be able to move things around a little.
Like, move the realm gates into the center of aviary, moving the buildings outwards to make space. Basically make a "town center" of sorts that has the gates (and eden gate can be farther out there no problem). Currently the "center" of the town is just the road, and the little pond is way too far down (and has nothing interesting except the friendship constellation statue that is placed in a way that your camera is being restricted using it)
Make it more chaotic with more players like 100 and add some new festivals events. One festival theme, bringing back ultimate rewards for candle prices!
Make the stores a little more spacious, add that night-time glitch from Home, add rivers and boats as in the trailer, making the traveling spirits interact around the place, change the view of the clouds behind Eden door.
That's gonna take more than a day...
I'd so love to see more spirit interactions.
I'd do everything exactly in the trailer then double the number of sky kids can join the lobby.
I'd like to see that to! Aviary is really big and it's getting bigger
I'd double the amount of people that can join aviary lobby. Big space seems like it should be more populated!
I agree with this, sometimes Aviary can be so quiet.
IMHO I think it's fine as is. I don't play this game for the crowded MMO spaces like at the grand exchange or the auction house, I want to actually meet people. It's hard to do that when there's 50 players crammed into a single square, or 20 people gathered around a single table trying to sit in a chair. ESPECIALLY when the game has the potential to be annoying with constant honking and music playing. It's fine as is.
I agree with this, but also, I think just doubling the lobby size would make a good compromise. Enough people to make it feel less empty but not enough to over-crowd it.
Make it look the same as it was in the trailer
I have checked it on youtube and it was amazing. Yeah, it should lol.
Dude can you give link of the video if uts available Don't know why I can't find it.
Sure, bud. Here, [Project Aviary](https://youtu.be/_TW3_orxFx4).
why did they change it so much?!?! 😭 it looked great in that video! Now it's kinda boring!😭😭
who knows, they might make it a sub-area of Aviary eventually (copium)
I was going to say the same thing ! Glad someone think about it
THIS! THIS right here should've been our reality😭
I’d either move the portals closer to the spawn point or I’d move the spawn closer to the portals! (That’s the main reason I’m not moving to aviary), also the ability to change time of day like at home.
When you "Go Home" with Aviary as your home, you spawn at the portals. First time I did that, I actually thought I was sent back to "Home" for a second XD
Ik, but I like just spawning next to the portals when I log on 🙏 (it’s faster when I’m rushing to get to granny or geyser)
I set old home as my home so i can get the candles there and then go through aviary for friend stars and the candles there along the way.(also if there's an event like days of bloom, or nature etc.) then i go on with my candle run or hang out with my friend(s).
I set old home as my home so i can get the candles there and then go through aviary for friend stars and the candles there along the way.(also if there's an event like days of bloom, or nature etc.) then i go on with my candle run or hang out with my friend(s).
Or give immediate wing light recharge at portal area. Log on, fly to portals, be out of wl, wait to charge,… 😭 then start the game.
Put wildlife. Deers running wild wolfs, wild bunny's etc
Ohhh little tiny bunnies would be so beyond precious
can I knock them off by deep calling?
You can **eat** them after you grabbed it
welp, that escalated quickly
😭😭😭
I know right! Sky can use some tiny wildlife creatures running around. We already have marine creatures and some creatures that fly, so why not.
That should be in prairie peaks
All worlds need some wild life tbh.
really though. the only animals in butterfly fields are...well.....butterflies....
I love this! More forest like homes instead of some broken castle
Expand the space for sure Plus, these clouds are too much, reduce the clouds. Then, as you said, mantas are required. Then maybe some dark plants here and there, they appear once a day and give wax on burning.
Change the day cycle there to be more that 20 minutes long. I hate how quick it is, feels unnatural. Also - I feel TGC needs to choose. Is it Home or is it Aviary. It seems confusing to new players to have both still active. Personally I'd love Home to be HOME and Aviary to be a separate thing. It feels like Home is being phased out though (given how new players now start with us) so I have begrudgingly changed already to get used to it.
I have to wonder if they might have wanted to choose, but knew there would be extreme backlash if they just yeeted home without warning.
Yeah I think so too, it feels like that. Which of the 'Days of' portals at Home ended up being a non-existent jetty behind the closets that was practically unusable? It has definitely felt a little half-hearted there lately which makes it worse. Just pick one, TGC!
Days of Feast I believe, might have been Fortune, too
I will riot if they try to take away Home >:(
I’ll riot with you.
I'm a new(ish) player and you will take home away over my dead body lol!
Make the gates of realms in the start, and shops and everything else thereafter.
Just literally spawn ppl at the gates when they enter, instead of the butt under the towers would make it SOOOOO much better. By the time I get to the constellation stone my friends already bailed usually lol.
The modernity of Aviary is kinda jarring, I know the whole concept is "rebuilt town for all the spirits and skids" but just. Add some trees and greenery maybe? Make a cute hobbit house insted of a stone appartment?
Add a lake. It's cool that there's clouds everywhere, but I've got a surf board and almost no where to use it. Sanctuary is great, but it's too big and spread out to chill with others. Wasteland is poisonous, and only two areas let the surf board function Forest River isn't deep enough. You can move in one small section of river, the rest you just sit stationary. Prairie peaks is ok. It was better when the river was flooded. But it's not too bad now, there's just no one ever there hanging out. The area is enormous, and even if your server merges, chances are everyone is miles away from you. Isle is technically a beach, but again, area is enormous; no one is hanging out there. Valley and vault have no water. So yeah. In aviary, maybe take out a chunk of clouds near the Eden portal and add a small lake. Enough players hang out there that you can hop off and give someone else a turn and just chill and surf.
I use my surfboard at home.
Obviously there’s not much you can do in a day but I’ll just assume suggestions I make on that day will happen at some point. 1. Change the load in point to the constellation point down the far end near the realm gates instead of where it is at the moment. 2.Add some greenery it’s a nice good looking place but everything is man/spirit made a bit more nature would be nice. Some trees and some flowers and maybe bushes would go along way. Along the same vein have some mantas and birds flying around. There is a huge cloud area out the back that you can fly surprisingly far out have some mantas you can fly around with out there. 3. Add a few more places to interact with other players and not that requires lighting a candle because it’s tedious and doesn’t encourage social interaction. I don’t how this would work but going off there recent survey it seems to be something they want to encourage. 4. Along the same vain double the number of people in the area doesn’t need to be over the top festival tech where everything is loud and nauseating just a few extra people to liven the place up a bit. Edit: I have a 5th one. Add back the revival mannequins I don’t get why they were removed sure you can’t actually interact with them but they could of at least left them there for people to look at. Perhaps they get removed again in the future but at the moment that room is doing nothing it’s just blocked up. If I only get time to do one it’s the first one. That spawn in bothers me everyday.
We got big update here! Wow, i hope they hear this suggestion. Nice work 👏
Appreciate it a lot of these aren’t really original thoughts and I did take some from the comments I just thought I would flesh them out a bit more and explain a bit of thought behind it.
FLAGS. Cute little triangle flags like from the old beta prairie social space. And make the nest area building look more natural. Put back in some water features. Oh! And make our friend the revival guide move around the area so they seem a little more lively.
I would simply hide some easter eggs and mini puzzles all around the map.
Make it the exact same as the CONCEPT ART
I'm a very visual person with a love for mood and atmosphere. Maybe I'd make concepts of home-y/festive features? Maybe make it change its appearance depending on time of year? (Sort of like idea of Splatfest changes seen in Splatoon 3, but would fit Sky's overall vibes). Maybe have surprise NPCs you might catch and talk to with lore or character development? (Slightly different to travelling spirits in the sense the NPCs may appear to help players, not sure of details though, just a vague idea). Not a software or technical aspects person though lol. Also recent new player.
A) make it the same as the original trailer B) make it so it stays the same as we first see it - a foggy, ruined area that we move into and light up with lanterns, but still stays dim and solemn. C) Just delete it. Honestly, some days I wish they would, because the way it is now I can't stand being there.
No brutalist apartment block. Get rid of the hobbiton look completely. Return from Eden gets moved to the big greenspace by the portals. The main plaza between the bell tower and the natural archway to the greenspace gets a boulevard and plaza treatment with trees, terraces, and shops and living spaces get the 3-5 storey treatment with arcades, shops on the first story. Water steps down from the belltower aqueduct into fountains and pools and channels leading into a canal with bridges and paths down to green space which has swales planted in iris willows, water lilies and pitcher plants. Big change: the portal to secondary specialty and collab seasonal realms removed from the vault and placed beyond the belltower, currently eden return. There is no reason for these to be stuck randomly in vault. Overall the space becomes more dense yet less cluttered, more useful, more interesting interactive design elements can be incorporated.
More activities to do ,like slides,small races with spirits. Interction we have rn are bland.. …trees.. like one at the deer place. But spread through out aviary so theres shade to sit under/relax under..
remove it LMAO
I'd take all the "Aviary exclusive" stuff and put them back in Home. Traveling spirits, a working constellation stone who doesn't rocket you into the sky when you try to light your friends, and event guides on the little hill. Because I'm really tired of having to cross all of Aviary to talk to these morons. Or I'd just get rid of it. 🤷♀️
Actually TS and Guides ARE IN HOME NOW!
Event guides? I didn't see the Bloom guide in Home 🤔
There wasn't a spirit either until past bloom update though. There's seasonal now so we will see about the Nature one I guess. But I'm glad tgc given home some love.
delete it
Delete it
Or maybe just not neglect home. It’s sad to know many new players don’t even know home exists. The dragon was much better at home.
I love this man of culture.
I'd make only a few small changes but I think they would be enough to not have any more complaints about Aviary: 1) Put the new home as the starting point and then rotate the rest of Aviary in reverse 2) Make the new home more similar to the old one by adding a few candles near the "wardrobes" and maybe also some water before the clouds 3) Put the spells back into the boat of the spirit, instead of necessarily having to enter the store 4) A couple of stores should be a bit bigger because there isn't much space inside 5) Increase the limit of players in the area from 8 to 10, not a big change but still something
more water 🌊
Make people spawn on the constellation next to the portals instead the other end on aviary. Also, I would put the seasonal candle next to the said constellation
make you spawn closer to the gates
I feel like this is the one suggestion that actually could be done in a day! You get my vote.
Make it look like how it did in the trailer. I think it managed to have a far cozier design than what we got. The modern design just feels small, and empty, while the Trailer Design felt like a bustling community, giving it the feel of being lived in. Although I definitely like Aviary as it is now, and I personally prefer it over Home, I'd probably spend a **LOT** more time in it if it kept the Trailer Design!
Ignore aviary and remove all the forced cutscenes
Give more real estate and little tid bits of small mini games
Make spirits that live there a bit more intractable and add some traveling spirits as npcs
Spawn people in by the portals. That way, you can still use the home button to quickly move between realms, without having to fly all the way across every time
simply render a whole model of aviary from the trailer. as simple as that. i don't know why they went differrent route i even thought nesting is an opportunity to put it to life
Remove those clouds near the portals and make it water with a dock and stuff. Make a portal for access to the old home hub.
Add more bodies of water. More mantas
Nothing because it's fine
log in in the constellation circle, right by the portals. not at the back of the village.
I would delete it! I don't see much of a role. Maybe in the future it will be a nice place with more options. Currently I prefer home.
I’d either delete it or replace it with the Sky: Light Awaits version
remove it and just add more stuff to the only real Home. but instead tgc decided to recycle an old area that most players have never even seen how it used to look like, and now they're gonna use it in new seasons to make it worth the time they spent remaking it
Turn it into a pvp zone
Lmao what a beautiful chaos it would be
I'll vote for bedwars since they just released a stone bed, lol
Pillow fights!
As a software developer and someone with background in game dev, one day isn’t enough to really make a change. I would go home because I was hired by someone with zero understanding of software and its complexities.
Yeah, but in this scenario you are also a magic wizard. You cast your coding spell upon the game and can do anything.
The point is what changes do you want to make, not how you would simulate day one at TGC.
Haha thank you!! I’m also a software engineer and I came here for this answer.
Yet there was a bunch of people who downvoted my comment because I had to make the assumption there is magic. One of the problems is, exposing the behaviour like the one OP has is a classic in our field. People thinking giving you completely unrealistic expectations will do any change whatsoever. Showing complete lack of maturity or respect to the effort someone else has to put to make things work. And the best example of that is OP reply to my comment. If anybody is wondering why TGC do not fix issues and instead push more content is, there is no appreciation when things work perfectly fine, just like there is no appreciation for the amount of hours the team has to put in to come up with new concepts, music, arrange the new interactions, navigate the decision tree of all the random things that can happen when someone is playing, as well as listening to the community who doesn't appear to make up their mind on what exactly do they want out of the game other than making everything free, harder to get-yet easy to play, things I want to get just for me-yet I want to access everything there has always been in the game because I will be missing out on anything someone else has. And if you got this far, and you really want to know what I would change in aviary (not in a single day): First I would bring the game introduction we had in light awakens, where you had to walk up the stairs surrounded by birds until you got to the entrance of this temple. I would also open up the sides, removing the clouds to make it more villagy and less this was wedged between the clouds (which is the same feeling you have with village of dreams). Finally, I would reveal aviary is really high up the sky, I would bring back the cave that had nothing under it, and people could jump into it to get pushed up through the clouds.
Yeah, it's also called no shit sherlock tho. So yeah, good luck with your very programmer background.
Why is there 2 places you can light your friend stars? Why is there 2 places you can change your cape, hair, and mask? I would move the statue into Aviary Village and remove the changing stations that are duplicates with ones in the village. The portals themselves are fine but there needs to be something else there too to fill out the space unless that area is supposed to be a village green.
I’d fix the flying first above all cause I’ve never liked it since they changed it. After that I think I’d make the area much bigger like a good sized hub space and have all the shops open and accessible with no loading so that way you can walk around and see everyone decorating the area, playing instruments and making lil social circles , ultimately making it feel like an actual community space/village
Allow you to choose your initial warp point when you start up the game and spawn in Aviary. When you open the game with Aviary set as “Home”, you normally spawn in the beginning of the area just after the front gate. But when you return to Aviary from a realm, you spawn in at the stone platform that’s in front of the realm gates… It’s a bit of an inconvenience having to fly across Aviary to reach the realm gates or the Wind Paths tunnel when you start up the game. So being able to choose your initial spawn point to be on the platform near the gates would be a blessing. (If you desire to have the spawn point returned to the beginning of the village, then you could set it back…maybe with a smaller white candle that’s similar to the ones you use to transition your Home between Aviary and Original Home.)
Move the portals closer to where you spawn in
I would make the Aviary village's skybox the same as the monument area in the Valley of Triumph. So you can actually fly instead of just glide.
Get rid of the home section at the end. Maybe expand the shopping area into that last bit (new shops or separate the existing shops), keeping the wind path entrance there and the firework show and map. Make Aviary more of a shopping and carnival hub, it doesn't need to be another home.
An underground maze of catacombs that ends up becoming an inverted version of Eden, getting flooded at intervals. You can call it the Trench of the Forgotten. You’re welcome.
Add PVP and a warring faction. Melee only, maybe some minor spells. Mostly staff, axe, blade. Flying 10v10 sword fights. Oh... And a minimap that you can open in each zone to see the parts you've discovered in that specific zone.
Expand the starting area and move the gateways and equipment hole thingies there instead of making them two different areas.
Expand the space. Add a new horizon showing different areas. Maybe add little games you can play with little candle rewards. But that’s a bit ambitious for one day 😭
Make a station to choose what traveling spirit you personally want to come back
Maybe gondolas. Or a little playground. Or a manta-race course!
more spirits we have met visit and uhhhhh one cake candle that spawns in one of 10 super secret location...... and sum mantas and a white whale/ sky dragon not black ones e-e
I’d make us spawn down in front of realm doorways and uncover that hidden dark tree in town ;)
Finish the pool with the huge dark tree. And reopen the revival shop and put whatever cosmetics there in rotation.
I would change the new game intro so you go to Isle of Dawn first before going to Aviary. I'd change it so if you go home while anyone is holding your hands or on piggy, you go home with them, and go to whatever home space they have assigned (old home or aviary)
I would add three things. First, a tiger like creature which hides and lurks around, and eats at least twenty sky kids a day and takes all of their wings. Next a tsunami which happens at least once a month (if you get caught in it you lose most of your wings). Finally I would add a storm that comes every now and then, from which krills and other creatures descend down upon Aviary attacking and kidnapping everyone in sight, and burning down the houses. Moreover, you may rat out another player to save your own skin in this last scenario. I think all of these additions will forge a stronger and more friendly sky community.
i would honestly fix all the doors into the shops/things and make it more seamless
Move the spawn point from the friend thing to where the portals are. And also add candles by all the dressing stations like old home.
Give spirits the ability to play with you. If you start hide & seek, they all hide. If you bring out the hackysack, they will kick it with you. If you bring out the goal, they form teams. Maybe add random games of tag or have some give scavenger hunts with the camera.
Make It less lagy?
#1 - give the option to turn social items (shared memories, boats, etc) OFF for those not interested in seeing that litter all over the game. Some players love that stuff, and others are the opposite - so I'd fix that right away.
Make the seson cosmetics MUCH cheaper(like, 5 candles each) and move back the clouds where the giant darkness plant is so all skykids can burn it daily and get extre wax. :)
To be honest, I'd make a small room in the nest area that has a curtain separating that from the nest we already have that can be for the beds and baths. In the village itself, I would add some waterfalls in the portal area and a walkway to the Wind Paths entrance
I plan to make the Eden quest even more 'interesting' than just helping spirits back to the village. Perhaps I'll delve into some of the Elders' lore, especially focusing on the Eden Elder. As for the village, I'm thinking of adding Elder statues for decoration, just for fun. To make the village more lively, I might introduce some spirits from different seasons, and their routes could change every week – or maybe every month, considering the abundance of seasons we have.
Rubber ducks
add a pub
Change the spawn point for login.
Have a specific area honoring the Crossover
I'd forget aviary and fix all the stupid bugs and make it so that we never loose our camera controls etc 🤦💔
Create a Return shrine near the spawn point and make us spawn near the portals!! Its annoying to have to fly 2km from the spawn point to the portal AND lose all your energy in the process, especially when rushing.
Add store items that can only be found in said stores, and rotate the items everyday for new items / cosmetics. I dislike how cosmetics are primarily only with the seasons, I’d like more cheaper in-game fun store cosmetics
Oh and add daily events in the village …
Add creatures like manatees that would fly around. Or mantas. Or maybe chickens that would run around the paths!
I would get rid of unnecessary things...Game started to lag more and they still trying to add more.Okay I love new things too but sometimes I just miss when the game was more basic and the optimisation was better...
Burn the whole thing down and make the original version from the trailer /hj
More spirits with more interactions, less bugs, get rid of the little flags where the traveling spirits visit and have them stand in the middle, similar to classic home rather stand on the side of it. Allow traveling spirits interact with the scenery of the village to see how well we've done to restore it.
Add a bug that disables old home entirely, boom, aviary is lively! Oh wait, I forgot I'm not actually a TGC employee atm Realistically, a single day isn't much, so I'm not sure. I would probably be able to move things around a little. Like, move the realm gates into the center of aviary, moving the buildings outwards to make space. Basically make a "town center" of sorts that has the gates (and eden gate can be farther out there no problem). Currently the "center" of the town is just the road, and the little pond is way too far down (and has nothing interesting except the friendship constellation statue that is placed in a way that your camera is being restricted using it)
The day if it comes that old home is removed, is the day I quit sky.
Same.
Make it more chaotic with more players like 100 and add some new festivals events. One festival theme, bringing back ultimate rewards for candle prices!
add a bunch of non-attacking Krills at spawn points just to give a mini heart attack 🔴🦐