Note- This is NOT suggesting it should be possible to opt out of encounters entirely. It's easy to see how that could be abused by someone who decides to opt out of every encounter that doesn't give you something. I am NOT suggesting that.

This morning, I got the "dead human" encounter three times in a single bar of energy. I'm sure that's more than the average, but it's not fun any time I'm clicking through an animal game and suddenly see a human corpse.

I'm not opposed to the encounter in theory, I just don't want to see it. I think there should be an option to toggle explore images off and on. In my case, I'd still lose energy, see the text, and get the reward (if there is one; I click away too fast to check), the only difference is that instead of the picture, I'd just see the background of whatever zone I was in.

This would help people who don't want to see the art for whatever reasons, such as being freaked out by it or just not liking the way it looks (looking at you, people complaining about the new art for the "starving leopard" encounter). I can also picture people using this to toggle off the different mating animal encounters next month; I don't personally have a problem with them but I wouldn't be surprised if they gross some people out.

There are no downsides to this that I can think of (if you think of any, let me know). If you like the art, you don't have to toggle the image off. People who toggle them off won't have any advantage from "skipping" encounters, since they're not skipping them. The only disadvantage that comes to mind is accidentally clicking past a good encounter because you have the image off and mistake it for an nothing encounter, or whatever it's called when the text just says "You explore, but find nothing."

There are two ways I see how this could work. The first one is a button on the explore page, maybe near the map button. When you get an encounter you don't want to see, you hit the button and the image disappears. The image stays gone every time you get the encounter, until you hit the button again to toggle it back on. The disadvantage to this is you'd have to actually get the encounter at least once if you want to hide it.

The other way could be a dropdown menu in Account Options. It would list all the encounters, and you could pick one to opt out. The toggled encounters could be in another box on the page, and you would just delete them from that box to turn them on again.

(I'll try and make mockups for both options later; I can picture them really well but aren't sure exactly how to describe them. They're both based off toggles/menus I've seen on other sites so I know they're codeable.)

If a toggled encounter can lead to a fight, say if you really don't like the Smug Leopard art, the art during the fight would be invisible as well. The icon at the top right would either be empty, or replaced by a generic icon.

Would you use this feature? Would you hate it? Did I miss something? Anything to add? Please let me know! I think this would be really handy without having a big impact on anyone who doesn't use it, but there could have been something I overlooked.