Optimizing the Food Pen


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Outsane

11:51am Dec 27 2012

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Either give us the option to remove the food or to destroy it faster so it can empty sooner. I'm sitting here with three pages of food hundreds of stacked food and very few pets on my profile that need to eat and I have to wait ages until I can kill one of them off so I can get an RSTU002. This is really inconvenient.

REMOVE THE FEEDING CAP
There is the option to "Feed Pets Now", but they cap it off when the hunger reaches 70/100 points. I'm anal about that kind of stuff and want my pets to be FULL, not NOT HUNGRY. Perhaps remove the cap. There's no point to it. I'd rather force food down my pets' throat and make them morbidly obese than have the piles of food sit there for months and months.

REMOVE THE ITEMS
I don't know what the advantage game-wise there is to not being able to remove food items from the food pen. Is it some sort of security measure so some one doesn't remove it and not put it back in? I just think it's kind of inconvenient that we have to wait for our pets to eat every single food item, especially when there's people like me who stock it right full.

DESTROY THE ITEMS
If there is some sort of reason for not being allowed to remove the items then perhaps give us the choice to destroy them so it would technically be like our pets eating them, but not really. I'm desperate enough to want to get rid of these items that I'd be willing to just delete them from my food pen at this point. I'm just really really tired of it all. Lol.

LOAD LESS PAGES
If you aren't going to take my suggestions then please, at least make it so you don't have to load a new page every time you use an item. Make it like the inventory so I can repeatedly feed a pet quicker rather than having to feed the pet and then refresh the page.





Meg

3:25pm Dec 27 2012

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All I can say is...
Total Support to the maximum highest quantity 8I



Divinity

3:55pm Dec 27 2012

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support support support! I want to kill off some pets but my food pet is packed.



Jzbelle

6:00pm Jan 2 2013 (last edited on 4:05pm Jan 4 2013)

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I had over 4000 food items in my Food Pen when I was ready to make my RSTU002.  I'm sure there's some reason for making the items non-removable, but as.suming that didn't make burning through all that food any more fun.  XD  I'd be interested in (and open to) ideas for improvement on the Food Pen.



Everly

2:29pm Jan 3 2013

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Support. <3 Love your siggy Jzbelle. x3





Lilith

11:32am Jan 4 2013 (last edited on 11:38am Jan 4 2013)

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Having the food stuck in there is a deterrent for killing off pets to rename in lieu of purchasing a name tag. 

Also, with the current design, you can send someone else food from your food pen, and it will go into their food pen. Handy for siblings or friends who want to make sure when someone is away that their pets do not starve, and it's a deterrent for account sharing.

I think a better solution would be to change the way that the RSTU00x are obtained. Make it like a morphing potion instead of a resurrection item!

Edit: Also, pet hunger is not capped at 70 when using "feed pets now". I just tried it and all of mine went into the 90's or to 100.






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Jzbelle

12:02pm Jan 4 2013

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14, how do you send someone else food straight from your Food Pen to their Food Pen?  I looked for that option when I was creating my RSTU002, and couldn't find it.  I instead offered to feed people's pets if they sent them over (which helped, but not much).  Granted, I'm slow sometimes, but I swear I haven't been able to find the dang option.  :)



Lilith

3:46pm Jan 4 2013 (last edited on 3:46pm Jan 4 2013)

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All ya gotta do is simply send the food, it goes right into their food pen. =)

...I guess that sort of makes it a secret option, huh? XD




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Jzbelle

4:01pm Jan 4 2013

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This is definitely a secret; please see below for the source of my confusion.  :)

http://www.rescreatu.com/forum/cat/general/general/feeding-your-pets-free-/~page/1/

Not trying to be a pain here, just confused.  Annnnddd sending the food items one at a time is no easier/faster than feeding it to your pets.  Unless I missed a multi-item option?

BUT, I do understand not wanting people to use the Food Pen as an alternative to name tags.  That makes sense to me.  The RSTU thing...I dunno.  Part of what makes them special is the royal pain in the hiney that they are to create (for some of us at least).  XD




Lilith

6:53pm Jan 4 2013

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Oh no, there is no multi-item option, because sending in bulk was meant to be done from the inventory, not the pen.

And that's outdated info :P I had no recollection whatsoever of that thread until you linked it, haha. 




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Graveyardfox

7:40pm Jan 4 2013

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Then one suggestion could be to be able to send in bulk from the Food Pen, although I'd greatly support just being able to take it out. I've been considering selling food for a while now, but I hate having to keep the food in my Inventory instead of my Pen. It just clogs it up.

I understand the Name Tag thing, but it still seems beyond inconvenient and seems bothersome to people who might just want to use the food items for something else, such as bulk selling or for quests. You're not going to be able to completely hinder those extremely determined to get name changes for cheap Tu. Instead of making inconveniences elsewhere, the system that's causing trouble should be changed.

Also I completely disagree with changing the RSTU00x's method. It's set up that way because it makes an extreme amount of sense given its backstory. If the method is changed, so would its entire concept because it is literally "bringing back Creatu from the grave and putting their spirit into a machine". It seems silly to take away the original concept of bringing a pet back from the grave as another pet and make it into a copy concept of the Wyrae through morphing.

Also it is capped at 70. I have several pets at 70 hunger and none of them eat at that level or higher. You just have high hunger food items. This is my test just now (and it's odd how when things happen at the same time, the order gets messed up like with Icoru):


  
  
  

  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
    
    
    
  
  
    
    
    
    
Creatu Name Food Consumed New Hunger Timestamp
Icoru Grape Soda Pop 65 2013-01-04 19:35:52
Icoru Tropical Sea 75 2013-01-04 19:35:52
Akusou Onion Rings 79 2013-01-04 19:35:52
Fluffa Pie Crust 70 2013-01-04 19:35:52
Londio Pie Crust 70 2013-01-04 19:35:52
Creatu Eat until they hit 70 or above and won't eat again, but they will eat multiple times to get up to 70+ using the Feed Pets Now. What Whit is suggesting is they eat even if they're at 70 or 80 or higher hunger so they can max out their hunger at 100.

Complete support for the fourth suggestion btw.





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Patrick

7:16pm Jan 7 2013

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I would be weary of making changes that make the food pen less useful to those who are using it for its intended purpose. They only eat until they're at 70 or above to save food for users. It was done specifically like this to help people who wish to automatically feed their creatu.

What about an alternative method to kill your creatu? One that is appropriately expensive.
Meg

8:42pm Jan 7 2013

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There could be an option to change the limit. Like a scroll bar off to the side that allows you to change it. This actually might all be solved if there was an option to set that bar at "non-feeding", which would allow you to disable/enable the food pen. And then have options to feed your pet at 10, 20, 30, 40, etc.



Pegasus

9:43am Jan 17 2013

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What about an alternative method to kill your creatu? One that is appropriately expensive.

I like this idea better. The food pen really is useful to keep your pets alive, to change it would be to make its purpose less so. When I had a lot of food in mine and wanted to get rid of them all I just pulled out half my showroom and hit "feed all" 

However, it would be extremely useful if you could remove food from it. If we can implement this one feature, and have the expensive pet killing poison, then I'd be very content.



Dusk

8:03pm Apr 1 2013

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What about an alternative method to kill your creatu? One that is appropriately expensive.

This would be a good idea? It would make others happy for the user's who do not like a certain pet to the ones who love one :D




Rejoining, I have a lot of TU that I find unused up. Got any good pets? Let me know, I might buy them
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