Konota
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Also, nty for every-year cape.
^ This. Making veteran capes more frequently would be:
1. Useless; veteran capes don't reference a static point in history, because they're earned dynamically, and so will never be able to fill the role of untradeable discontinued holiday items. An untradeable discontinued holiday item will always point to X point in history (e.g. a 2011 Christmas item will always point to 2011 Christmas), while a veteran cape will continue to lose its historical value (e.g. a 15-year cape currently points to 2003, in 2019 it'll point to 2004 etc).
2. Counterproductive; if a new veteran cape was made every year, we'd have 16 mediocre cape designs by now, instead of the 3 unique designs we have thanks to the 5-year waiting period between each one. The longer the wait, the more unique cape designs we can get. Just compare the capes to the crowns of loyalty, and you can see how mediocre the crowns look due to them being yearly.
Both existing tradeable and untradeable discontinued items need to be preserved the way they are. > )