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✪ Summary:

This suggestion is intended to be (hopefully) implemented along side [ this one ] if it is approved.

So we all know that The Giving Tree wipes stats from cubs that are donated.

"But Nadir, not everyone breeds for stats!"

This is entirely true. However, The Giving Tree overlooks one very important issue with the stat wipe: You have an extremely limited window to get the required training in during the 5 month to 11 month period of their life.

It's no secret that when training a cub, the stats gained as an adolescent are paltry when compared to those gained through solid, successful Cub Training. For those looking to give their cubs a boost on maturing, Cub Training is necessary, as even with full training as an adolescent, the stat gain is barely anything. So the problem that arises is that cubs in The Giving Tree sometimes only have 1 or 2 days left to do Cub Training. For those hoping for a solid marked cub, while still attempting to maintain stats, breeding into such a lineage can be crippling, and the rarity of the marks doesn't soften the blow much.

To this end, using the tree to any extent winds up entirely worthless for these sorts of players. Why grab a cub if you can't even give it the training it needs to be on par with your other lions?
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✪ What I Am Proposing:

[+] Boosting the stat drop randomization.

Currently, the tree appears to randomly generate stats in the 30 to 40 stat range. I agree with Sólsetur's opinion that the most logical course of action is to simply boost this range. To help ensure that this feature is not cheated and gamed, I propose the following:

> Any cub or adol abandoned at the tree with OVER 400 STATS will be subject to a randomized new stat between 200 and 400. Basically, a tweak of the current stat randomizer applied to these lions.

> Any cub with UNDER 400 STATS will not have its stats touched. This is to ensure that players cannot drop a cub at the tree and pick it up to gain quick and easy stat boosts on a cub to game the system.

It is far easier to produce HIGH STAT CUBS in large numbers than it is something like mutations, since having high stat parents guarantees high stat cubs. This is important because while stats are virtually useless, they are a selling point for studs regardless, as the community itself has deemed them desirable. So while I support higher stat cubs being able to be dropped at the tree, I neither would like to see the efforts of stat breeders infringed upon, nor their donations entirely stripped of worth. I feel as if this is a good middle ground to expand upon.

If you don't support, I'd like to know why. I appreciate constructive criticism over a simple "no".