So it's occurred to me lately that it's kinda odd that prides of 200+ lions are supposedly able to live off the same amount of hunting patrols as prides of 40 lions. I mean, think about the real life application (not that the pride size is very realistic, but theoretically)— if a pride of lions had 100 lionesses to go hunting and enough land to do so, would they only send out the same 5 girls over and over again and leave everyone else sitting on their butts? Probably not haha!

Basically, I think the hunting patrol system should work similarly to the broodmother system, just at a slower pace. As a brief overview for those who might not know, for every 10 territory spots you add, you get one more broodmother, starting on the next "1" number (ex. a pride of 31-40 spaces has 3 broodmothers, but once you grow to 41 territory spaces, you get a 4th broodmother slot)

I think patrols should work something like this:
1-50 territory: 1 patrol slots
51-100 territory: 2 patrol slots
100-150 territory: 3 patrol slots
and so on— with each 50 slots, you get one more hunting patrol to send out

Benefits:
- larger prides will make better use of their lionesses and the hunting system will be more fair for them
- smaller prides don't really lose anything through this method
- it gives another reason for people to buy GB to increase their territory, which benefits the website as a whole
- it also makes the training system more fair to larger prides, as larger prides generally have more adols, so it will offer more opportunities to train adols


edit; added suggestion just for admins to consider: perhaps the option to buy the ability for the second/third/fourth patrol to gain stats? would need to be somewhat pricey so that not everyone does it, but it does also seem like,,, if you buy 100 territory and support 80 lionesses and are willing to pay for more of your lionesses to gain stats, i don't see why you shouldn't be able to? but im mostly in this for the food LOL

Suggestions:
Bezthiel (#81210): the lionesses in the extra hunts do not gain stats

Possible Concerns:

Bezthiel (#81210): Since lionesses only gain stats through hunts and the main way this is limited is by only being able to send out 5 at a time, I could only support this if the secondary parties don't gain stats. We're starting to see lionesses pass 10k stats so clearly hunting works fine for stat gains. And your main concern seems to be getting enough food for a larger pride.

if you don't support, please give constructive criticism as to why!