Posted by -LOCKED - Nesting Sucks

🦐 Aardwolf 🍤 (#46899)

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2019-01-29 10:37:29
You know what sucks the fun out of this game more than anything else I can think of? Nesting. Nothing says compelling gameplay like having to scroll through a long list of materials to either nest lionessses one by one or generate Nesting Materials one by one so I can... nest lionesses one by one.

I understand nesting is there to drain the economy of things like feathers, but let's take a look at what nesting actually does for your average player:

-Adds needless downtime to project planning

-Forces you to move materials in and out of storage if you don't want a giant list to scroll through

-Removes realism (yes of course every lion in Africa flings a couple feathers on the ground before shitting out cubs)

-Over-penalizes with a complete wipe of a litter if you fail to nest, holding every player hostage to this mechanic

A change really needs to happen here. If nesting is going to stay, we HAVE to be able to generate nesting materials at Monkey Business in a more click-friendly fashion. This is agonizing on desktop - I can only imagine how terrible it is if you only play on mobile.

I propose this: let us group feathers and plants and whatnot in the same way you can group-select items to sell at Monkey Business. None of this box-ticking. You click generate and the game spits out however many Nesting Materials you would expect given the amount of uses you entered, plus change if there is any. I don't know how you would improve the mobile version of this as mobile is obsessed with making you select stuff one by one in every drop down menu anyway.

TL,DR; Either revert the game to its previous nesting-free status or let us batch craft nesting materials if the mechanic is staying.



This suggestion has 278 supports and 37 NO supports.



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Edited on 01/02/19 @ 10:09:32 by 🦐 Aardwolf 🍤 (#46899)

Evre [G1 Maziwa] (#142334)


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Posted on
2019-01-30 19:18:20
you're probably right honestly. I had loner on my old side king. w/ fapa, it's no longer an issue for me on main. but ya gotta pay for that so... still annoying, lol



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Karmo (#98909)

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2019-01-30 19:20:43
I've always bought the Sangoma Mask for my kings just to have the Loner personality. It was the personality for my first king, so I didn't have problems, but my second/third king were both Kind, and all of my Snarky/Evil girls were constantly moody.
Loner is my savior lmao.



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Latister (#156065)

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Posted on
2019-01-31 09:54:28
PLEASE make this a thing!



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Gahlu [HM | Clean] (#155415)

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Posted on
2019-01-31 11:54:33
I've never had the slightest issue with coming up with nesting mats, and I've never bought a nest from Monkey Business. But creating and, to a lesser extent, assigning nests can be extremely annoying for sure. I grudgingly use Monkey Business to make nests out of white lion pelts for some reason, otherwise I don't bother... easier to pick mats from the 'pregnant lionesses' page. Of course you still have to find them in your hoard and dig them up, even more tedium.

Being able to mass select mats to make nests would be sooo much better. It could be an option to mass select---can still individual select too, if you want---but man that'd be such an improvement.

It'd also be better if the 'craft nest' bit on Monkey Business was its own page so you don't have to scroll alll the way down every.single.time. to make one single lousy nest. And if it sorted consistently; when I have more than one white lion pelt, sorting is different every time a nest is made. So I not only have to scroll and click, but also pause to look at which ones have enough material left to make a nest.

I didn't play back when nesting wasn't a thing. I don't mind it in principle, just the annoying details, but then I very rarely mass breed. I imagine this is much more of an eternal nightmare for those that do regularly mass breed.

Anyway, support!



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Thrawn (#115980)

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Posted on
2019-02-04 09:25:42
If it's gotta stay, please let crafting be more user friendly for folks with bad joints, RSIs, etc. I actually don't breed much anymore, or risk losing litters because some days, my wrists hurt so much from my EDS that it ain't worth it.

People with disabilities should be allowed to play games without being penalised for their condition.



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Lady Argent
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Posted on
2019-02-04 16:10:03
Honestly I am down for mass nesting craftability. People keep saying you can hold ctrl but for me the MB crafting for nesting mats is all single check boxes, regardless of my tablet, phone, or desktop. I can't mass select one thing, I gotta click through every single thing. And it's frustrating and time consuming.

And to address the herb issue: the only herb that isn't nesting mat friendly and not used in any kind of app or decor, is the iboga root. Someone dropped over 300 of these into my clan hoard last week of November, and imagine my surprise when I find out that - outside of Sangoma quests - it's literally useless. At the very least iboga root should have a decor, but that's a separate discussion. All other herbs have app, decor, or nesting mat usage.

I have healthy wrists and hands, but you know what individual material clicking does kill for literally every desktop/laptop user? Mouse and button sensitivity! I've lost two mice to games that require frequent clicking, and one laptop's left button became so ruined it either double-clicked everything or didn't click at all. I recently made over 100 nesting materials by hand so I would never run out, and that has probably shortened my mouse's lifespan significantly.

I'd support mass nest crafting for sure, since I doubt staff will ever remove nesting. Might as well give us the option to turn that lion pelt into 3 nests with 2 uses leftover with 1 click.



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Edited on 04/02/19 @ 16:10:15 by Lady Argent (Clean/StM) (#146403)

Desolace, Colorbomb (#36375)

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Posted on
2019-02-10 05:46:29
I hate nesting.

How about, have a "Stockpile" option that draws from it the necessary USES of nesting materials. So if there are items you DONT want to use as nesting material, if its not in the stockpile, it wont get used. Anything within the stockpile will be used, click a button once "Would you like to nest this lioness?" (X) Yes ( )No.

Done.



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2021-04-15 14:22:24
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