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Valdrax

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Enhancements to Stocks -> Animals
« on: September 09, 2011, 03:45:43 am »
I have two suggestions to make animal husbandry easier:

1)  Allow the player to view an animal's description from the list (and easily transition back).  This would make it easier to cull herds for genetic selection without having to painstakingly search the entire pasture for the animals you want.  (e.g. To offer up the skinny, weak animals to the shop and leave the fat, muscular ones to breed.)

2)  Sorting.  Rather than order-of-birth/migration only, it would be nice to be able to be able to group by species, species & gender, pet status, etc.
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Re: Enhancements to Stocks -> Animals
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2011, 12:13:42 pm »
Do like. Also: A way to see which animals are caged would be nice.
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Re: Enhancements to Stocks -> Animals
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2011, 01:04:38 pm »
This is a good idea.
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Re: Enhancements to Stocks -> Animals
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2011, 03:35:59 pm »
I agree wholeheartedly.

I feel that the Animals menu could use an overhaul.  Sorting capabilities are a must.  It would also be useful to know at a glance how many of each animal you have.  I recently had a successful herd of yak, as well as horses, llamas, alpacas, pigs... suffice it to say that I had a lot of animals to take care of.  Careful micromanagement was required due to their grazing needs (much rotation between pastures).  While doable, I found that much of my time was spent counting and recounting how many of which creature I had so I knew when to send a few more to the slaughter.

Also: do animals actually pass their physical traits along to their offspring, or is it random?
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