There are personalities that reduce the cost of both to 0%.

Protective - March Personality Changer.
Heartless - Sangoma Mask from Personality Snake

Changing the personality cost would hurt karma farmers/potentially ruin the karma leaderboards - which yes, some players do care about.

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You’re right! What I’m suggesting is a larger scale change in game mechanics to address the high volume of NCLs in the chase pool, vs. What an individual player could accomplish using a specific personality.

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I repeat my karma comment.

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Ah, I missed that edit! Thank you for pointing that out. It would have an impact on karma leaderboards.

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The current cost & karma is also there to limit folks without the personality & to provide some benefit for the existing personality changing items above things like Hyperactive or Candid, providing different gameplay styles and cost/benefit for players to weigh while selecting their main leader's personality.

There's also "Most Lions Killed" (Kill) and "Most Lions Sent Away" (Nature Reserve) Leaderboards, which are much less well known with no real benefit to scoring but are pretty easy to rank on if you have the correct personality and mass-breed.

So if there are more options that provide benefit, there could be more incentive for some other players to take over those mantles? ^^'

I don't think reducing the current costs is quite the right way about this, but am curious to see if discussion sparks any further ideas.

I've actually gone from (Personality for Battling) ~> (March personality changer) ~> (Back to Battling), purchasing each step from other players, within an Event before because the cost analysis and energy use came out even.

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my suggestion would be adding a feature that does not specifically add lions claimed from explore to be placed back into the "chased" pool. it was pretty devastating when they added the star indicator and i realized i was getting much more chased than i thought, only for them to be basic ncl quality.

i think the proposed change should be;
a. limit what can be put in the chased pool, especially if it already is heritageless or something of that sort.
b. add an additional feature that does not cost anything regarding energy/karma/chased pool happenings, and instead make it to where the lion is simply sent off into the void for those who don't care for karma nor making it a chased.
c. if there can be no changes regarding the ncls being put into the chased pool, at the very least, register them as "NCLs" again instead of "Chased"

in simple terms, i do not support the original suggestion, but i do support the idea behind it

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I really like those ideas, Kura. It sounds like there are good ways to rework the chased pool without impacting Karma for those who are going after specific goals. I’d love to see chased NCLs reclassified as NCLs, or have a year-round equivalent of the murderstone that erases unwanted lions without any cost or benefit.

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