When you go to request a heat for a lioness, any breeding items you own that could be used on the lioness are on the page and have a little checkbox.
So if youd like to use a crunchy worm, lion scrotum, gnawrock, you name it, you can check that little box and send the items off with the breeding.
Likewise, if you have a lioness and you'd like to send a stud request to someone's king with, you can send along any male breeding items you own.

These systems were implemented to protect the players' items and time and keep our breeding systems far more honest.

But the very big and very significant difference between these features is this - When you send a stud request to a male lion, that female lioness can sit around and wait for her breeding all day or even for a few days.

But when you send a heat request to a female lion, and you've applied male breeding items on your king, (in my case, buffalo scrotum and opal saltlick) your king is going to have those items equipped until his next breeding.
Now whether that breeding is the actual heat request you intended them for or it's your stud request from another user or it's your own random lioness your breeding is up to you.
So essentially, until the heat request is accepted, you cant breed your king to any other lioness. Unless of course your intending to use those items on that lioness's breeding instead of the heat request breeding.

Now, this wouldn't be a problem if all players were active. But this is not the case. What has happened to me is this - after arranging a heat request deal through PMs and setting up the request to the lioness, the user who owns the lioness has not been online for three days.
And my king has had a buffalo scrotum and opal saltlick applied to him for three days.
I cannot bring in money from stud requests. I cannot breed my own project lionesses when they go into heat. I cannot even give the refunded stud requests I normally offer my friends. My king is essentially frozen and there's nothing I can do about it but wait.

I completely understand that some are not active on this game like others are. I understand that the user I was setting up the heat request for has a life and isn't as involved in lioden as I am. But for the protection of the players, for their time, energy, and money, I'd like to suggest this.

When you send a heat request, you ought to be able to have an option to send the male items along with her.
This means youd have a buffalo scrotum or other male items checkbox. And for gnawrocks/saltlicks/or other items that can be used on both genders, there is an option to select either lions' attributes, or, if you own two items and the item can be applied to both lions, the option to select them both.

This means I can happily sit and wait for my heat request for days or weeks. I won't be frustrated with the other user and I can continue to play the game. This system adjustment would protect the way both users play the game and make it more enjoyable. Right now, I can't help being frustrated. Especially with wet season coming up, I may end up having to breed my albino girls to outside studs and pay for stud requests I really shouldn't need to pay for. With this feature adjustment, I can keep on going and whenever it suits the owner of the heat request lioness, they can come online and accept my request. No rush, no stress.

Yes, this seems like it would probably be a lot of coding and adjusting, and because of the fact I don't know how much coding it is, let's just say it's a ton. But this adjustment is worth that time it would take to implement. It would take away a lot of the hassle for heat requests and make the system more enjoyable and stressfree for both parties.

Thanks for reading all of this you guys. I would really appreciate it if you could take a moment to consider this before supporting/not supporting, and if you have the time post why or why you didn't hit support