Hello everyone! This thread has been set up jointly between myself and Tilted Scene in response to the notification "Trade cooldowns on lions will now affect transfers in addition to trades"... essentially a feature meaning that transferred lions now have a once-per-day window to move between accounts. I shall now hand you over to my (angry) co-writer Tilted, who will explain her thoughts on the subject...

"Okay, so Tilted here. I guess the saying “A few rotten apples ruin the bunch” is a bit true, assuming that the newly implemented cooldown on transferring lions (you read right. The cooldown for trade buyouts works for transfers, too! Transfer a lion to someone, don’t expect it back until the following rollover) is because of some rotten apples that do not understand how following rules works… alright sorry /end the rant.
Anyways, I understand the new feature. But let’s point out some pros and cons. The feature doesn’t sit well with me. My partner Red Dawn and I have specifically made sure our arrangement was okay with rules and have the proof of that too. So if you team up to patrol a sub, you cannot transfer back until the following rollover. Not only from some random person, but your own accounts are included into the mix. Now, some of you may be thinking “suck it up”. But this falls on you transferring back in forth between your own accounts. Say I unroll my main account for the day, move my ladies and sub over there for some hunting and patrolling… how do I get them back before shutting the account down for a few more days?
So, let’s carry on to some other cons of the feature. Traditional studdings? A thing of the past. Some pros to this? No scamming. Some cons? Say you rollover your on boy for the day to stud some ladies of your -own- and now they are stuck there until the next time you roll, regardless of insta feathering them or not. So then you have to waste slots that could be income to you, whether 250SB a pop or 30GB. OR let them sit there until you rollover again and can retrieve them.
Fatal mutations? Good luck trying to transfer those babies before they kick the bucket. Once they are purchased, it is stuck on that account and sometimes it is a race AGAINST rollover to either gift it to a friend, as the nice person you are, or to your other account if you wish to not freeze it on the oneone you purchased it on. And sometimes, you have to purchase the fatal WITH the mother… looks like the previous owner has to put 24 hours of trust in you before they finally receive the mom back after the fatal is frozen. I cannot really find a pro in this…"

Now, much like my friend Tilt, I am a regular user of the transfer feature, and I act as a co-patroller of a sub male with my close friend Smogirl. Again, this is well within the remit of the Lioden TOS. I feel very strongly that cheating in order to reach the leaderboard can never be condoned, and whilst I am happy that this new feature does complicate things for potential scammers and cheats, it also affects the entire high-stat community, many of which are honest people with great integrity. :(

I would like to see the new feature amended, either with a shortened time frame - lions can be transferred every 12 hours as opposed to every rollover, perhaps - or the introduction of an item that makes a lion 'immune' to the trade cool down feature. Such an item could be as expensive as you like... I am imagining a 'tiger's eye' type of setup where 10GB secures 100 transfers, and can only be applied to one lion? Again, this is very much me brainstorming XD At a 10 GB fee this feature would be used only in 'emergencies,' some of which were mentionned earlier by Tilt... that lethal cub you need to transfer before it dies? Sorted! That stud you need to hit 6k before his next birthday? Sorted again!

I would love to hear your thoughts on these ideas and responses to the new feature, or if you have any ideas of your own you would like to share :)

Lots of love from (Angry) Tilted Scene and (Mildly Vexed) Raamiah

Thoughts:
Locust says: "Sometimes it takes awhile to sell a lion at a decent price. Some people transfer their sales lions to a side that they don't roll often and put them for trade there so they can be up for the 30 days or so without aging. Lions are a very quickly depreciating asset. People who do this and stick it out for a price they feel is fair are helping to preserve the market. No longer being able to do this will pressure them into quick selling, and the market will suffer as a result. So, the new feature prevents proper selling if you want to transfer lions to a side you rolled for the day… you then have to roll it over again to put for sale? A bit unnecessary and tedious."