Posted by Shred Meat Option

Marin (#43039)

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2014-12-04 06:00:26
Suggestion:

Allow the 60% carcasses to be 'shredded' into smaller portions. Each portion would be worth 30%; however there would be twice as many portions available from that carcass. This allows more of the pride to be fed. Even if it is for less of a %.

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If the Meat is shredded into the pre-existing Meat Chunk (Large, Medium and Small) items then the percentage, and all the coding are already implemented into the system. These items would then determine the percentage. (Possibly even using the last 'serving' to create a Rawhide)


Reasoning:

Each carcass is worth a certain amount of % toward hunger. They range from 5 - 60% (haven't found any higher yet). I feed my pride when they are at 40% hunger. However, sometimes when I go to feed them all I have is carcasses worth 60%. Using a carcass for a lioness that does not need that much food feels like a bit of a waste to me.

For example, I had a cub that I was sending to a new home. She had 20% hunger. I make sure that my cubs are fully fed prior to shipping them off. However, the only thing I had to feed her was an Elephant Calf Carcass. These are worth 60%! To me this felt like a waste of food. With the Shred Meat Option, I could have shredded the Elephant Calf into smaller portions and not wasted an entire portion on the cub.

This would also help ease the perpetual problem so many with large prides have - lack of food. I spent an entire day hunting, regularly checking Lioden every half an hour to send my lionesses on a hunt. At the end of the day, they still did not quite have enough food for the pride. The reason for this was due to the amount of servings available per carcass.

If there was a way to shred the carcass into more, but smaller, portions, this would allow more of the pride to be fed on less food.

It would also allow those with not enough money to simply buy the food to feed their pride a little better.

Edit: Shred Meat is a good option for those who cannot get on line every 25 minutes to start a new hunt. It would give the ability to feed more lions with less food.


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Suggestions by Others

Camo: Just a thought for those concerned about the meat market, simply make the shredded meat unable to be sold/traded/transferred so only whole carcasses/somewhat eaten carcasses are only allowed to enter the market. :)

Ni'Vara: The item "Shredded Meat" could just not give stats. Also, non-transferable.

Ancient Wisdom: As these items already exist, mayhap using the function 'Shred Meat' would turn the aforementioned carcasses into Large, Medium and Small Meat Chunks? The percentage of the carcass might determine the size of the resulting Meat Chunk. Then only minimal new coding is necessary to complete this suggestion.

RottandArtist: if you shredded the meat, the gains from shredding it could be offset a little by turning it into however many pieces of meat, and one rawhide. Rawhide could then have one use (either in events as we have seen, or as a playtoy, like any other single-use toy.)



This suggestion has 394 supports and 3 NO supports.



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Edited on 03/12/15 @ 23:22:25 by Marin (#43039)

Camo (#23821)

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Posted on
2014-12-29 04:51:32
Thanks, Ni'Vara! <33



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Marin (#43039)

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2014-12-29 05:15:43
Thanks for your input Camo, and continued input Ni'Vara. Thanks again for everyone who has contributed to this suggestion.

Wow, two pages! This is great.

So, tonight I'm going to edit the first post and integrate everyone's opinions.



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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2015-01-31 20:39:36
Does anyone have any more ideas or suggestions to make this better?

Anymore support?



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Kizazi | Egg Hunter (#21804)

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Posted on
2015-02-13 20:17:19
I like the idea myself.

It seems a lot more efficient and helpful for people who don't get in 15+ hunts a day like some do. I know I like to get in my tons of hunts, but not everyone has the time or the desire.

I think being able to "half" a carcass over a certain size would be a good option.

I'd say any carcass that restores 30% or more can be "halved" or "shredded". So you could shred a 30% into two 15%, etc.

I also totally agree that "Shredded Meat" should not be transferable.

If you can only reduce it down to 15% at the lowest, I wouldn't worry as much about it giving stats. Normally it's only 1-2% for most foods to give stats anyway.





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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2015-02-14 16:29:15
Thanks for your comments and support Sabor!



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Pepper (Yuzu) (#16240)

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Posted on
2015-02-16 08:55:33
Support! :) This is an amazing idea!



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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2015-02-17 07:52:23
Thanks Pepper!



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Chaos (#43802)

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Posted on
2015-03-13 03:29:16
As these items already exist, mayhap using the function 'Shred Meat' would turn the aforementioned carcasses into Large, Medium and Small Meat Chunks? The percentage of the carcass might determine the size of the resulting Meat Chunk. Then only minimal new coding is necessary to complete this suggestion.

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Marin (#43039)

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2015-03-13 03:45:21
Thanks Ancient Wisdom, this is a great idea! I'll add it to the first post so it is easier for others to find it. And thanks for the support.



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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2015-07-20 08:07:50
Anyone else have any suggestions or opinions about Shred Meat?



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I'ten (#41893)

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Posted on
2015-08-26 13:31:25
This is a great idea.



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Alabai (#28971)

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Posted on
2015-12-03 16:12:07
Super-supportive of Ancient Wisdom's alteration of this- very UN-complicated. It's an action "shred meat" just like turning an object into Rawhide. Then, you get whatever number of the pre-existing feed objects, like the meat chunks. Very simple, very to the point, and reasonable!

Amusingly, if you shredded the meat, the gains from shredding it could be offset a little by turning it into however many pieces of meat, and one rawhide. Rawhide could then have one use (either in events as we have seen, or as a playtoy, like any other single-use toy.)

Just a thought, NOT needed, but an amusing thought. Your lion out there chopping up the carcasses... Cue Xylax cartoon with a lion with an apron on and a meat cleaver and filleting knife in each paw.



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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2015-12-03 16:19:49
Thanks for your support and suggestions! I concur that Ancient Wisdom's idea is a really good one since it makes everything much simpler to code.



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Marin (#43039)

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2016-08-05 02:55:04
More suggestions are welcome. Anyone have any other input?



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Marin (#43039)

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Posted on
2016-11-14 12:28:24
I've been a bit neglectful of my suggestion! Any new ideas or input? I'd love to hear them and happy to incorporate them into the main idea if I like them (you can see how I've done that with others' suggestions).



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