The Basic Idea

So many gorgeous studs, yet so many inactive users! You obviously can't fault someone for not being active, so instead I want to suggest a new feature. Automatic studding! You don't have to be online to accept requests, they will go through automatically if the right conditions are met. Great if you plan on leaving and not accessing Lioden for awhile, and great for people who always see gorgeous studs with owners that haven't been online recently. I realize some studs have rules, like fertilities they won't accept! This is why I think there should be a rule sheet you can customize to allow/disallow certain things! A possible example...

✤ King Lion's Autostud Settings
Stud fee: 500sb
Minimum fertility accepted: 50%
Maximum tries per lioness: 7

✤ What about feeding kings things like Red Cocks and buffalo scrotums? There could be an option to give the king one of these items, and a drop-down box for the lioness it is to have an effect on.

✤ I also think users could turn it on or off.

✤ MUST HAVE CAP! I suggest stud slots not resetting til the week's end like everyone else, or perhaps having a basic 5 autostud slots and paying to add more slots?

✤ Energy and hunger. Perhaps the king's energy won't recover until the user gets back or it could recharge as usual based on hunger. Tell me what you prefer.

Got any ideas or suggestions? See any flaws? Help a sister out and tell me, please!

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User Concerns & User Suggestions

✤ Larvirawr saw her Senpai (#27485): "Even if the limit was just three days, people could just log in every three days and collect their income, making their high stat stud last 3x longer"

✤ Snowene (#39233): Possibly, your stud would age (the increment, I don't know) every time he accepts successfully an auto-stud request. This is to address Larvirawr's concern of ageless studs.

✤ Maulise (#32469): "This is an interesting idea, but, as someone with a leaderboard stud, it seems extremely easy to exploit for me. Here are a couple of suggestions I have in mind. It's still exploit-y, to some degree, but much less so than it would be otherwise.

-Auto studding only works if the user has been online and rolled over that same week - limit of 3-5 autoslots.
-Auto slots do NOT refresh till the end of the week, regardless of activity
-Limit of how many auto- slots can be used a month limited to a number below using the whole 3-5 slots you have per week, so say 10-12 slots per month (depending on how many per week), with NO item to raise this monthly cap. However, you'd be able to raise the cap per week, but you could use up your month's worth of auto-slots in the duration of a week.
-Limit per lifetime WOULD be a good idea, just to avoid people with LB lions like me artificially extending the lifespan of lions indefinitely.

Still, even this I find, myself, easy to take advantage of - I just take all the lions I want to train and swap them with my inactive side, spending my time on there training my next male and set of LB females while my main male very slowly ages and gains levels from EXP farming with energy root. I'd love for this to become a reality, but in all honesty, it seems like it'd be too broken, regardless of precaution."

✤ Snowene (#39233): Perhaps an auto-aging feature would have to be implemented, regardless of having so few slots. Unrealistic to real life, but possibly necessary: every autostud request successfully taken ages the stud to a small extent?

✤ Arkkael [VIP] [Phoenix] (#28129): "How about the slots activate after some inactive days from the account? I mean, we're talking about and idea that originally was for inactive studs, so it would make more sense for the automatic studding to appear after a week, or 5 days, of inactivity from the account. It can still be exploited, but not as much as without it, and if you add the 'aging when studding' part, it may be a good holder?"

✤ Moro the Cuddle Monster (#28010): "What if there was a maximum amount of inactive days allowed before this feature would shut off until they logged back in ? Like ... lions gone over 1 week or 2 weeks for example would have this feature automatically shut off until the player logs in?"

✤ FallenSamurai (#59672):Maybe have it so the user sets it for a certain amount of time. Like for instance if you know you are going on vacation for two weeks, you can set the auto studding for two weeks. Of course having limited slots and what not and having a maximum time limit of like a month.

Another way to curb people from taking advantage of it is making it a GB feature where you have to buy a time period for it to be available. Like 2GB a day or something and you can only buy it for so many days (so people can't stack it), like a week at a time. And maybe have a cool down period before you can do it again.