Hey, I'd really love it if we had pageant rotations in terms of theme, so that sometimes the theme would be for lorwolves that don't have custom apparel. A lot of people can't afford to use custom apparel on their wolves and right now there is a huge divide between people who can pay or offsite trade and people who can't. Furthermore, there's a fair question as to the creativity of using custom apparel is on a wolf. Mostly because these are things not natively made on Lorwolf, so you judge less on the beauty of the wolf, or the creative use of onsite items.

I've already seen users in other suggestions imply that "Lorwolves with CA should win because their better" (Not a direct quote). I don't think this is a healthy mindset for us to have because all wolves are beautiful, but having CAs can be an advantage.

This is coming from a CA apparel maker. Who sometimes uses my wolves in pageants too, sorta feels bad when I can't place anywhere if my wolf doesn't have a CA.

Some theme suggestions: CA free, Apparel Themes, elemental themes, night and day themes.

That way people who aren't able to pay don't feel discouraged. Thank you.

I think this is a great suggestion! You're right that there's currently a huge divide between people who can get CAs and those who can't, and it means pageants don't encourage a lot of creativity. I think weekly themes would be a great way to encourage creativity and get people looking at the wolves themselves instead of just what they're wearing.

Support! I've had lots of non-CA wolves win pageants against mine thats decked in CA so I do think it all depends on who ends up in your pageant pool, but regardless the pageant does need some reworking and categories would be a great way to do that.

I feel like there should be an entirely separate category for wolves who are using CA. Just making it a 'theme' becomes another timegate imo, since you'd have to wait for a rotation.

Absolute support! It'd be nice to have the wolves with CA in a separate category!

I support this. When CA were introduced in early access, I've seen this coming. I made a similar suggestion. At the time I was told I was wrong and kind of alarmist, well, here we are.

Support!

Support! I don't wanna have to feel bad when I decide to throw in my wolves with ridiculously expensive items. I think theme pools would be a lot of fun and would give me ideas as for who to enter that week. Because right now I just pick almost randomly

I do see a downside though: my Perma collection is very small, so I would be limited by themes being extremely strict. For example, my main den is a group of magicial sparkle wolves so if a theme such as "natural colored wolves" came up I would be toast. I think if themes were more like a suggestion instead of the exact rule, it would be more fun. I'm just tired of seeing wolves lazily covered in CA instead of being put together in a thoughtful way

Support for separation, not for themes.

CA is beautiful and should be showed off in pageants, but natural naked wolves should also be able to stand out because of their patterns alone too.

I'd like to see 2 different pageants: One that allows apparel (custom or site) and one that does not. To prevent the MS Shard reward from getting bloated, you should only be able to enter and vote in one pageant each week, not both.