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A virtual pet site or VPS is a website where people can adopt and take care of virtual pets, buy items, play games, earn virtual money and explore lands. Many have clubs, as well as forums, mailing systems and adding friends. Bigger sites have auctions, trading and battling arenas.
Currency
Each virtual pet site has its own currency, used to buy toys, food[1], and care for pets. Currency is often won by playing games. Some sites have multiple forms of currency.
Pets
Each virtual pet site revolves around the ability to adopt a pet. Some, like Neopets, allow as few as four pets, while others, like Marapets, allow 12.
Some pets are created in themes, like 'Fishland' which offers pet fish for adoption. Others, like Neopets, Herupets, and Zetapets, have several types and species of pet.
Various pets include cats, dogs, fish, pigs, dragons, unicorns, and aliens. Many pets are completely unique creatures, others are combinations of two or more animals to create an original species.
Like most virtual pets, these can be fed and looked after when sick or tired. On some sites, pets can die if neglected.
Virtual World
Most sites have a browser based map, where users can visit multiple themed regions in the pet site's world. It also acts as a way to navigate different areas of the site, and to interact with NPCs. Events in the site storyline can result in changes in the world and NPCs.
Community
Many virtual pet sites offer a community of forums/chatrooms/groups to their users. Forums provide different official topics to post threads under. Chatrooms, similar to forums, provide topics to post under but many also provide the user's own creation of their topics to post. Groups are created by users to provide specific activities for users of the same interests. There are also some Virtual Pet Discussion Communities and forums where users may discuss of their ventures into the Virtual Pet Community. An example is Virtual Pet Forums.
Games
Games with virtual petsites are usually used to earn points in the game or to entertain the users of the petsite. Games can be programmed in Flash, Shockwave, or they can be programmed in PHP and/or JavaScript. Most petsites choose not to use Flash because of the security hazards and how much they tend to cost.