I've decided that I'll just save images for each individual pet once they've been generated at creation. Most saved pet images are weighing between 40kb~120kb. If each user has ~50 pets, I'm looking at 5 to 8 GB of diskspace needed once I reach 2000 users.
This is not ideal, but I really don't have any other viable options at the moment.
However, during the beta period, I plan on having a hard cap of 200 users, which will at least bide me time to find a place to host my site. Once I hit a certain level of popularity, though, I'm going to be screwed unless I find some place with a hefty diskspace allowance and
unlimited inodes.
In other news, I've got an artist I trust to help me out. For now, it's just with item art. In the future she'll also be helping with pet decorations, designer skins, and patterns.
We'll launch with 18 colors, plus three more hidden alterations - albinism, melanism, and a mottled monochrome that will happen extremely rarely if genetics line up just right and the Novu gets both albinism
and melanism.
I'm definitely on schedule to invite some of you to help test starting in the spring~!
