-LOCKED - Hunting Changes - what is going on?
Posted on 2014-12-15 02:13:16
Greetings almighty lions,

We've had a recent development regarding hunting - and how stat inflation is being affected by the recent change in price for skipping hunts. Since we changed the price from 1GB to 100SB to skip a hunt, we've seen a couple of members go a bit crazy on spending. While I'm sure you've been enjoying this little loop hole, unfortunately this has to come to an end!

About a year ago we set out to make hunting fair and well-paced regarding giving out stats, and we reduced the stat rewards from randomly between 1-6 down to 1 stat per lioness per hunt. There were several complaints about this, as it took the fun and surprise out of hunting. Recently we gave you randomly an extra point! Yay! This alleviated some of the tediousness of sending your lionesses hunting only to get 1 measly point.

However, this alone made it possible for lionesses to get double what they were getting - from a solid 10 points per day (if you completed all 10 hunts, or more if you added hunts) to a potential 20 points per day (or more.. etc).

When we changed the price from 1GB to 100SB, some of you who had stockpiled your SB went on a spending spree and - by increasing the amount of hunts a lioness could go on in a day, while also skipping the hunting time - managed to raise 4 year olds to extremely high levels, with thousands and thousands of stat points.

This is something that we strived to avoid a year ago, and by being overlooked (by myself, primarily) it has allowed super-buffed lionesses back into the game.

So as a result, we have removed the ability to add extra hunts to your lionesses. You can still skip hunts and get your hunting results immediately, and it still only costs 100SB instead of 1GB.

Our reason for doing this, rather than reverting the cost of hunt skipping, is because we feel confident that you have enough to do as it is - you don't need to sit and worry about adding more and more and more hunts to your lionesses, just to stay competitive. Additionally, we feel that limiting lionesses to 10 hunts per day as standard will help to regulate the inflation of stats (whereas if you can still add hunts, you're still adding stat points). We also don't want this game to be pay-to-win (which it was when you could use a $0.50 in-game currency to skip your hunts while other members had to wait).

I'm sure a lot of you feel very strongly about this issue, and we'd like to invite you to express your feelings in the comments. But please keep in mind that we, as developers, are trying to do the best that we can for the game and for ALL members - not just the top 1% (;D). Or 5%, or 10%. We feel that this is a fair compromise. As always, if you want to express your opinions, please be respectful towards all the staff, and other members. We all have to get used to big changes which sometimes don't seem like they are for the best, but we promise we're trying to do everything we can to make things fair.

Finally, steroid lioness says thank you for feeding her stats over the past two weeks:

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Densai (#22807)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:16:31
Them nipples tho *^*



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Momo the Itty Bitty (#45242)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:16:39
Fair seems fair to me!



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Toxic the Meme King (#33375)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:16:41
No ;n; I like adding hunts more than waiting, I can wait but only 10 hunts per day means I won't be able to get as much food as I need everyday D':



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Spectre [CLEAN Pied
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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:17:30
Never used extra hunts anyway so I don't even care and I ain't even mad.

That steroid lioness though.



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Faun (#48895)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:17:36
Nice fix. i considered taking advantage of it, but didn't find it worth the SB, honestly.

Also, seriously, please just get rid of that stupid "first to comment on a news post" achievement. people don't even read these posts and just whine and complain about being "so close" to getting number one.



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Jounist (#14257)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:17:41
Thank gosh, i had thought you where taking the 100SB off until i read it, Thank you Abbey! Your a life saver, you dont know how hard it is to keep up with the stats game, i myself have given up, going on looks instead. I want to thank you for removing the add extra slots, if you have 110SB to skip hunts, buying carcasses for larger prides wont hurt you <3



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Sisko (#43166)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:17:44
Thank you so much! This helps the less well-off players still have a competitive edge :)



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FluffPaws (#27169)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:17:46
X3 I think its fine



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Kalli (#19902)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:01
ahaha the lioness xD



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Erela (#50371)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:12
At least I got on the first page!



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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:19
thank you for this update! it still has the skip feature and i think this is the fairest way to make it for everyone :)



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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:20
Well, then how will you deal with the people who abused this loohople and buffed their lionesses up with 4k+ stats?
Other players, who didn't skip and still had time to do extra hunts are now being punished as well and this isn't right, I am sorry.

The best solution should be to LIMIT the skippings and not the hunts or maybe both.
For example:

5x skipping each day
20 hunts for a lioness max (with 10 free as it is already).

With skipping being limited and hunts as well, people cannot grind like mad, even if they want to.


PLEASE reconsider to give us extra hunts back and limit something else in exchange.
Plus, those people who have stat buffs now, have the upperhand in the game again, since we all know how the market is for high statted cubs v_v.....



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Victoria De La Lune (#45650)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:37
Okay



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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:18:55
I honestly feel this new update isn't an answer. To avoid a very long post, here's a thread I've had up for several days addressing the issue, and why I feel this fix is limiting and unfair.



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Discontinued. (#24545)

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Posted on
2014-12-15 02:19:03
Just saying that the 4 year old lioness some members are talking about actually had 9000+ stat father and a 3000+ stat mother. So it's possible she did get most of her stats from her heritage.
Just wanted to point it out because it's been driving me crazy with people saying that a 4 year old lioness got all her crazy stats from the hunt skip (and hunt adding) feature



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Edited on 15/12/14 by Sparkywolf [MP] [KOS] (#24545)



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