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How do you balance new wolves and old ones

How do you balance new wolves and old ones
Posted 2022-01-19 14:12:06
I'm forever trying to find a balance between keeping the wolves I like, or the ones with high hunting stats, and taking in new ones, or even just keeping pretty pups.

This morning, I gave away my 100% prof Herbalist despite quite liking her, just because I wanted to make space for other wolves. I have older wolves (5-6 years) who aren't particularly beautiful, but their stats are so damn high I don't want to take the hit on my hunting.

How often do you chase wolves that you originally wanted to keep?

Blamp (she/her)
#48655

Posted 2022-01-20 02:37:10
Personally, I try to plan the substitution of old wolves with new ones, so I don't have to chase any of my actual members. When I started to play, I decided I would try to let all of my wolves die naturally and keep them with me until the end of their life and, so far, I managed to do that.


My rules go like this:

* Working wolves (hunters, scouts and herbalist. All of my working wolves are males): start to search for a substitute when they reach 6yo and absolutley decide on the successor at 6yo 6m. This way I have plenty of time to raise them, train them and let them gain a bit of role proficiency until it's time for them to be fully active. I have a "training team" for hunters, where the young ones can get exp and proficiency.

* Females (pupsitters and scouts/mentors): start to search for a substitute when they reach 6yo 6m and decide on a successor at 7yo.

*Special lore wolves: find a substitute only after they die.


By doing this, I'm able to always have more or less the same amount of wolves (a number I can feed/play without struggles). It took a while, but now I'm at a point where I almost always have one of the wolves reaching the end of their life, so I can go looking for pretty pups or keep one I bred at least once a week.
And if I find a pups I want or a pretty chased NBW beforetime, I either write them down early as substitute for the next aging wolf or use one of my "spare" slots of extra members (and remember not to find a substitute for these extra members).

Of course this means that I don't go browsing the trading center everyday and I stay away from the Enclave until I know I need a new wolf. Or I would just keep getting every pretty pup I see XD

PiffleLovesBaseball
#740

Posted 2022-01-23 11:41:16
I limit myself by focusing on stats and never being swayed by a wolf's looks. Occasionally, I predict that I will need to bring in an outside wolf to fill out my working positions after a current wolf dies. When that happens, I buy a puppy under 3 months old with 600+ stats and train them up myself. Other than that, I do not keep outside wolves. If a quest requires me to befriend an NBW, I sell it away again ASAP for 1sc refunded. I also run my "school" to level up my pupsitters, but those puppies are always sold for fodder when their training is done.

spotpc
#9204

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