A lot of people are annoyed about the chase pool being mostly re-chased basic NCLs (typically from CRB farming, impression farming, mass breeding with jag boosts, etc - which are all viable ways to play the game) and lots of people are suggesting potentially game-breaking options such as energy-free killing/reserving, or magically removing NCLs from the chase pool without laying out clearly defined set criteria for the removal (for example, would a NCL base rosette be removed? What about a comb-based NCL marked lion? Potentially special groupies?).

My suggestion is much simpler - make it so all lions without a heritage cannot be chased.

This would mean that:
• Groupies could no longer be chased (this is a big source of NCLs in the chase pool in May).
• Newly Claimed Lionesses could no longer be chased - whether that means they are special or from the generic base pool.
• Theoretically, this would mean that the chased pool would eventually become just that - lions bred by players that have been chased for others to enjoy, or as a heritage wipe. (I see you, Find My NCL!)

In my opinion this will:
• Increase the value of real chased NCLs, they can't just be bred and chased off again now - so may as well be redistributed back into the trading centre for a profit!
• Decrease the number of "potato" NCLs/Groupies in the chased pool.
• This may also stop the uptick in "give me your unwanted NCLS!"/veiled begging that I have noticed.
• This should be easier than introducing a new way to dispose of adult lions, because the filter for this already exists on the adult sex changer where it says - "lions without heritage cannot be sex changed."

What could go wrong with this?
• People may end up stuck with NCLs they cannot dispose of.
Solution: There are always karma buyers who are happy to pay for them in order to kill/nature reserve them - which deletes them from the game instead of adding them to the chased pool. Players could also change their personalities to heartless or protective to remove the energy cost themselves. In my opinion, for example, its better to save 50% energy by killing/nature reserving 10 lionesses, versus getting the free 30% energy from hyperactive to then end up wasting that energy killing/nature reserving lionesses.

• The chased pool could get too small.
Solution: I doubt this will happen, chased lionesses are replenished every minute of every day because lioden is played 24/7 and people are always chasing off lions. I have witnessed someone explore with the Korobela be told "there are no chased lionesses right now" only to take two more steps and another spawns! Assuming that on average every active player sends 1 chased lioness to the pool every day; we're looking at 488,284 chased NCLS potentially being added to the pool (lets not forget a portion of these are deleted), though realistically even if only 1/10th of the current player base chase one NCL a day that's still 48,828 chased lions in the pool a day.

Please feel free to ask questions, submit feedback or additions! I'd love to be part of the solution of this issue that seems to now be the bee in everyone's bonnet!