Implementation of a Trade System:

[blissful prairie]

Players would just use this to grind new accounts and get the Phobies they want on their main account. Or at least that's what I would do.

You can use #💭︱suggestions to get your idea to the team, though.

[grim mango]

Any form of trade system would be absolutely catastrophic for game balance.

Some phobies as of now suck by design (Balance changes when), and they are found in all rarities.
If you WERE able to trade, what happens if a high ranking player trades a low ranking player? What about the levels? What about people who scam others with terrible phobies for good ones? What about the starters? What about alt accounts?

IN MY OPINION there are far too many issues with trading. Even if it was just for dupes, the same issues would arise.

[pearl delta]

I should have clarified this in my post but you wouldn’t be trading with other players. You would be trading through the album. If you want a specific phobie from it then you need to give up one to get it.

[modest sky]

Get rid of all the phobies you don't use for all of the OP phobies and other phobies you want

[grim mango]

Even worse!
People would trade everything else for the meta, games would get stale, and then you've ruined the game! Congrats!

Not to mention you didn't even address levels properly.
What happens if I trade a level 13 for a new phobie, then back? Where did the levels go? People will unintentionally waste their Time and effort when trying out phobies to see if they like them, and if they regret, they're f#cked.

Also do you know how easy it is to fill the album?!
Go watch top player games, and your collection will be filled to the brim in minutes.

I get what you were going for, but this would be a terrible implementation. Both for game balance, company profits, and overall game enjoyment.

Phobies are Phobies, not trading chips.

[blissful prairie]

I think this kind of approach would lose the game a lot of money, personally.

[grim mango]

And when no money, servers go down. And if servers go down, the game is practically dead.

[pearl delta]

I totally forgot about that album feature, oh well. I had a bit of a feeling this would be a garbage idea.