People seem to suggest a lot of things to righten the lion market and make sure that people get more tempted to buy lions. Many want more hunting slots which can be filled with lionesses, but this would inflate the stat market, spreading high stats and flooding the market with it. So, if we want to make sure that stats are still able to be sold, we need to avoid enabling more lionesses to gain stats.

I see one possible way to solve this issue:

Add more roles to lionesses

There were many quite interesting suggestions so far and I was inspired by those, and found that they might be the ultimate solution to this very problem. I decided to make a sum up thread for them, where the staff has easier time seeing them.

So, here are the suggestions for the roles
(Feel free to suggest your own ideas)

1. Hoard Guard/Hoard Keeper
This lioness assigned to this role cannot go hunting –because if she does, it will be automatically removed from this role- and will sit in your den all day, guarding the hoard. Because a lion’s stash surely tempts the other predators of the savannah, and they will attempt to steal your food. A lioness however can deter them just fine.
One lioness gives you about 60%-70% guarding rate (or only can protect small carcasses up to 4 uses), so for the 100% effect you will need two guards.
These lionesses cannot gain stats; instead they gain skills after each day of successful defending. (the amount I leave to the devs)

This way the safety of your Hoard will depend on 1-2 lionesses, making people buy more for their pride.
The higher the skill, the more effective they are at defending the hoard.

Slots available: 2
(-inspired by Summer's Eve’s idea-)

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2. Thief
This role is described by Sunfire, although as an event idea. This however might bring a little more life into Lioden. There can be only a single Thief in the pride, who can be sent to other people’s territory to steal small prey -1 or 2 uses carcasses.

Note: Your Hoard is safe, nothing is stolen from there, only from the territory, by hunting there.

The lioness is on the male’s territory for an hour. However, there would be a chance for responding to it. Your male has the ability to catch her red-handed and steal the prey back. Maybe there could be a countdown in your den without any inbox notification to give the sneaky feel to it. If the lioness succeeds, a small carcass is added to your hoard and after a cooldown she can be sent again.

The lioness would gain skill after each successful stealing. The higher the skill, the more chance there is that even though the male caught you, you could get away and bring the carcass back anyway.

Slots available: 1
(-Original idea by Sunfire-)
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3. Roamer/Explorer
This lioness can be assigned to go and explore, just like how a submale can be assigned to patrol. And in the same fashion as well, so just click a button and off she goes, or have a separate page where you can set where she should go. Maybe once every hour.

She would have the chance to bring back toys and small carcasses (eg. gerbil, meerkat), and would gain exp for each time she brings back something.
The higher the level, the more items she will bring back. A level 20+ lioness has the chance to bring back bigger carcasses.

A Roamer could also bring an adolescent female along, but she would not change the rate of how many items the Roamer finds. However, the higher the level of the roamer, the more chance there is that the adol female will gain some stats (not at the same rate as the submale, mind you)

Slots available: 1
(-Inspired by fluffyfg’s idea-)
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There ya go, a lion pride now has 5/10 huntresses, 2 Hoard Guards, 1 Thief and 1 Roamer. Which means 9/14 useful lionesses in the pride which should stimulate lion demand and purchase.
Feel free to suggest more roles –within reason of course- or add your own thread if you have suggestions already.

Thank you.