Development Update #6

these all sound amazing, thank you so much!! i love being able to see the success rate for hunts, it's super helpful :)

I definitely think the price for gene checking is, in an outside perspective, a good thing. It makes mutations more unobtainable, as they should be. Nbw carriers will be much more valuable. It also makes it a very very reliable money sink which is a super important thing to have in any game community to keep the economy under control. 

However, it being a really good money sink is pretty bad in this situation! At the moment you can generate up to about 200sc from the raccoon a day, if you have stuff to trade. Up to 100sc from the fishing game, and like 100-200ish from the daily quest. That's 500 max sc a day assuming you are on top of everything to generate as much money as possible. Three gene checks a day. 

That doesn't leave much currency left to put into the community and trade throughout each other. People will be dumping the sc into looking for their valuable NBWs, or checking their litters. Any other reliable way to make money is by being a pro at working the market. But note, that money isn't site generated. It's already in circulation. If a new way to generate new SC to put into the site isn't made, then the market will just slowly plummet more and more and more down that money sink. It ain't a money sink at this rate. It's a money mugging! 

It won't effect only those who want to gene check, it will effect anyone looking to use player trading. I don't mind the price of it at all. I do rather like having mutations be more valuable. But don't let all the sc in circulation take a dive :(

I like the update but the bat is really expensive!  Usually to scry my potential carriers I only spend 30 sc.  I hope you consider lowering the bats price to something more reasonable like 100 sc.  Albino/melanism carriers aren't really worth that much to justify the current cost.

Nice! Super excited to ask Gene for help :)

So, I went back and read the hunting update part again because I noticed my hunters, who usually come back with a ridiculous amount of injuries - I'm really, really tired of having all five of them come back with -4 and -5HP every. Single. Hunt. - are coming back with fewer and lesser injuries? Like, one wolf with -2 or -3HP. I don't see this mentioned in the update - is this something that was changed or am I just absurdly lucky today?

The hunting stuff seems very helpful— looks like a great update!

And although I don’t cate for mutations in the slightest, it’s great to see preventions from users scamming each other. 

The puppy survival thing is extremely helpful, thank you! 🙏 

Yo the people saying their melanistic or albinos when scried aren't saying they are carriers... because they AREN'T. You can't be a carrier and show the mutation at the same time. Visible mutations still pass down the chance and produce carriers. Carriers are wolves who carry the mutation but don't show it.

This is awesome!

One question, will wolf search be updated to include a carrier status field?

Yeah... not a fan of the 150 sc scrying fee. The feature itself is perfectly fine, but I don't see why it has to be THAT expensive. I agree with most other people, 50-ish sc is far more reasonable. 

I'm liking the puppy survival notice though! As someone who is both forgetful and pretty easily distracted it'll definitely be useful aha~

Yessss, love this hunting update <3