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Pop 5: Features for Friends that’d be Fancy

Slanted Fish

(Hey Poptropicans! This is a guest post written by TallMelonisCool, a Poptropica player in the community. In this post he’ll be sharing his ideas for features that could be added to Friends. Enjoy! –🐠)

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Hey guys! So we all know the Friends feature, released back in 2012, that changed Poptropica forever, allowing us to keep up with our Poptropica friends. But over the years, I’ve been thinking that there are some features the Creators should really add to make friending a lot more fun. Let’s get onto the Pop 5 list of potential features for friends that would be improvements!

1) Showing friend’s Realms stats

I’d like to see how my friends are doing in Realms. There could be a new box on the profile for Realms stats, and clicking it would show things like:

  • what level your friend is at
  • how much Poptanium they have
  • when was the last time they visited Realms
  • how many Realms they’ve made, as well as the ability to visit those Realms
  • all the public Realms your friend has liked

2) Battle stats (wins & losses)

Another feature that would be cool to see: clicking on a friend’s battle ranking on their profile to show their wins and losses in the common room games. You’d be able to tell which games they liked more, which games they were stronger at or weaker at, and perhaps there could even be a setting for displaying your favorite game.

3) Dates in which they accomplished things

Date statistics would be interesting to see, and this could apply to various things, like:

  • the date your friend first started playing Poptropica (maybe even with a footnote for status of new player, old player, or somewhere in between)
  • the date they last played Poptropica (it’s good to know if an account has been inactive for a while)
  • the date they completed an island (or perhaps when they got each photo in their album, like photo timestamps)

4) A “birth” video

This is a small feature, but I think it would be cool to see what your friend’s character looked like when they first started playing – even before their first island photo or costume saved in a closet.

What did they look like fresh out of the box they popped out of when their account was made? That I’d like to know, and I think we should have a “birth video” on each friend profile to show us just that. You know, for the memories.

5) Knowing who friended you

As Perfect Sky mentioned in a post of hers, Pop 5: Features We’d Love in New Poptropica, one more feature that would be awesome would be to see who has friended you.

This would be cool because I can also friend those who’ve friended me back. Plus, I’ve got some big game achievements (like completing Early Poptropica about 500 times, and Shark Tooth about 100), and I want to know who gets to see it!

Well, that’s my list! What features do you want to see added in Poptropica Friends? Do you disagree with anything I said in this list? Let me know what you think in the comments below. Hope you have a great poppin’ day, and goodbye!

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Published by Slanted Fish

Hello! I'm Slanted Fish, the editor-in-chief and creator of the Poptropica Help Blog (PHB). I'm a writer, Hong Kong native, and Christ follower. My Poptropica username is slantedfish 🐠 Don't forget to be awesome!

29 thoughts on “Pop 5: Features for Friends that’d be Fancy”

    1. LOl everyone really wants number 5 to become true! But this list is not in order at all! The one I want the most is number 3 because knowing the date they did stuff is just cool!

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  7. Hmm. For #4, that would only be available to players who joined after the update. Poptropica currently has no way of tracking what an account first looked like. That would also make the feature kinda useless, since the new Poptropica is supposedly coming soon.

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  8. YES GUEST POST RELEASED WOOOO HOOOO. Wow SlandedFish you changed alot of words from the one I posted to you Lol 🙂 I really really wish the creators see this blog post because remember the “Get wise with Pathwise one the creators saw it! Poptropica Creators PLZ ADD THESE FEATURES PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!

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  9. What should really be added is a way to search your friends list for a specific user. If you have a list of 200+ friends, sometimes it would help to just search their username for their profile. But the suggestions in this post would be great additions as well.

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  11. I think it would be cool if you could type in a username into the photo booth and you could use that person, because it isn’t too customizable.

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  13. Haha,I remember when Realms still used to be relevant. I worked my butt off for years,and by now I think it has about 100 likes. A pity no one really uses them anymore as far as I know. Realms still needs a lot of fixing,as far as I’m concerned.

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  16. It would be cool if you could see when your friends are online, and also if you’re near each other, you could play together on islands. Pre-scripted chatting on islands would be cool too.

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