This idea came to us in another suggestion thread, where we agreed that there is something very wrong on this site. The fact that we have a cub market issue and the developers even helped in creating it by lowering the cub selling age from 1 year to 5 months.

This is a bad idea for many reasons:

1. It makes it all too easy for mass-sellers.
2. With the cub mortality feature, the sellers dont even need to look at the cubs once until they can be sold. In majority, they survive until 5 months without interaction.
3. Sellers can push 70% of the cub raising difficulties to the buyers. With the new cub mortality feature, it is a huge mistake.
4. To fix the market, it is the mass-sellers who need to be showered with more work and difficulties than the buyers. There is no problem with the demand. The supply is the one that is too much.
5. With this in place, it will be extremely hard to implement anything that would fix the market, since sellers (those we have problems with) can boot off the cubs very young and would feel very little of the features.

The solution is simple:

Bump trade age back to 1 year!

Why, you ask?

1. Since the problem is with the supply being numerous times the amount of demand, it is the supply that needs to be limited.
2. To limit the amount of cubs that gets to the market, sellers must be the ones to raise the cubs, to place the difficulties of cub mortality onto their shoulders.
3. Only the cubs that survive until 1 year could be sold. Less supply or for the same supply it means more work for the sellers.
4. It might bump up demand, since the buyers wont be the ones with the responsibility and work to raise the cubs.

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Additional ideas:

1. Block nursing lioness trade
This would be one way to bypass this new suggested feature. Since lionesses can be sold with their cubs, cub trade can happen in this manner too.
Since traditional studding is not an official feature, It can be ignored, so this additional idea does not stand in the way of anything.
Transfers would still work, since people might want to transfer their nursing girl between their accounts.

2. Hunger/Mood Limit - Suggested by Fortuna (#8567)
There should be a minimum amount of hunger/ mood the lions need to have in order to be sold. It may also discourage mass sellers as they will need to take care of their lions in order to sell them.
If the mood/hunger falls below the limit while they are in a trade, the trade would be automatically canceled.

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This idea only works in connection to others that dont enable 100% protection with broodmothers, since this bypasses any kind of cub mortality features and any attempts to fix what is broken.

Like this idea.