You take a nice walk along the beach. What is this? You see something shining beneath the sand.
+ 1x Lucky Coin/Compass!


(Ignore the quality, I just had some fun sketching :3)

Chasing lions is great. Maybe you chase a lion you don't have a use for anymore, but still imagine someone else would enjoy them. And sometimes you just chase them because you are out of space.
But some people chase their lions to clear their heritage and try to get them back, you see people in the forums looking for their lost lions all the time!
But the biggest problem with chasing lions:
You never know if they even made it into the chased pool.

For anyone that doesn't know how chaseds work:
When chasing a lioness (giving she isn't older than 11 years) she only has a 50/50 chance to enter she chased pool, so you never know if she will show up somewhere or not.

So this is where the Lucky Coin/Compass would come in handy!
The basic idea of this item would be that you give it to your lioness and, when chased, the game would actually tell you if she hit the 50/50 chance to become a chased.
Maybe some flavor text along the lines of
"Your lioness looks on the compass, to the north it is! You remember a nature reserve into that directon. Save travels!"
would tell you your lioness became a chased.

And
"Your lioness flips the coin to chose a direction. When leaving, dark clouds rise on the horizon. Maybe that way was the wrong choice."
would tell you she didn't.

Then you know if it's even worth looking for your chased lion or not!

Now how would you get a Lucky Coin/Compass?
I'd imagine it would make a good explore drop, somewhere around the rarity of the Lagoon and Lilac skin apps. It's gonna take a while until you find one, but it's not completely impossible like a Mukombero. With the new content we are getting, it would fit in as a January-only drop as well.

Edit: Multiple people have suggested to just add it to one of the existing shops, so the item could be bought at any time.

Addional Ideas (I do not know how viable they are):
Idea 1: It would be really cool if there was some indicator that shows you the chased you just claimed had a Lucky Coin/Compass used on her, idealy even during claiming her. Like that you'd know that someone is looking for her. But since I don't know how Lioden saves data about chased lions, I don't even know if that is possible.

Idea 2:
!EDIT: I already see several people being against this idea, so see it as no longer part of this suggestion.!
If anyone wants to recycle this into another idea is welcome to do so.


I'm unsure if something similar has been suggested or not, at least I wasn't able to find it on the forums.