The title basically sums it up. New sprite comes out. Feeding it 20,000 of the highest tier of sprite material would cost me a fortune and drain me of all my 5* materials so I go the long route and then "forget" to open up the thing and feed it 5 crummy materials most of the time. I'm not saying to lessen the requirements or anything, but I do have a few ideas that would make my Wednesday and probably ramp up sales of costumey sprites and all of the evo materials that come with that.
Auto-Feed Option
Put a huge stack of... whatever you want in. Whenever the sprite is hungry and you are online, the sprite will automatically receive food and even level up. No need to click on the material click on feed etc.
Upgradeable Materials = New Sprite Treats!
Currently, low tier materials do almost nothing as time progresses and just sit there. Using these 1/2* materials is kind of a waste of effort, so what if we made a recipe that took tons of them and bulked them up for the purposes of sprite feeding? Something like-
Any 50 1* materials becomes 10 2* materials
Any 50 2* materials becomes 10 3* materials
...
Any 50 4* materials becomes 10 5* materials
Any 50 5* materials becomes 10 super special 5* materials that feed for 3x a normal 5* material.
Alternatively, it could just be made to where crappy materials can be eaten in larger quantities than better materials. That would work just as well.
Allow Shift-Clicking
Lets say I have 200 monster bones and want to sell all of them on bulk at the auction house. I shift click, and that puts up 10 mats at once. What if we could put 5 mats on the sprite table, and it would just eat all of them? Any excess would just go to waste but that's not really a concern when you're sitting on fat stacks of mats.
@op:
Besides this "Any 50 4* materials becomes 10 4* materials" which confuse me, i totally agree with what you posted. Cause these sprites are more like just another gear that needs to be fed in order to heat it. They really do not feel like a pet at all that you can play with, gets sick, ect.... Anyway, yeah moving on.