WishList 2: Toys, more Toys and accessoires

[LibGwen Resident]

(08-03-2015 12:44 AM)JessicaArianaHamby Resident Wrote:  May i also suggest, toys cats can simply bat around... For instance, like the ball, but it's rezzed all the time, and the cats randomly bat at it.

I'd like to see small toys myself. I enjoy playing with the ball, but sometimes it would be nice to see a cat play with a toy by itself. (Especially if you have more than a few cats.) And some owners don't have the 5+m range necessary for the ball to work well. Some thoughts on toys:

- A movable thing the cat goes to: It would have to be something that realistically would only move tiny distances when collided with (for example a knit toy). The toy would have to be able to teleport to a home position whenever it went out of some range, or else it would be knocked out of the cats' range within hours. That home point might lessen or increase its appeal, I don't know.

I picked up some free VKC toys to give my cat space a lived-in feel. The cats don't know they are there, but because they're physical the toys get realistically scattered into places outside the cats' ranges.

- An immovable thing the cat goes to: It might just be easier to have some sort of stationary rack or track the KittyCatS could paw at without actually making anything happen in the toy. There are a number of real life toys of that sort, but I don't know if real cats continue to play with them after the novelty wears off. Owners of real cats might find it a bit painful for virtual cats to keep playing with something their own cats snub! And of course you'd have to find a place to put the thing. In a small area, figuring out where to put your cats' home points and with what ranges is quite complex even without adding the scratching post, laundry basket....

- Something the cat rezzes: Maybe a variant use for the sleep toys: An awake cat briefly rezzes a toy, randomly paws at it, rolls around with it, that sort of thing, then de-rezzes it. If you want a little more realism, there could be a box or something the cat goes to before doing this, as if getting the toy. Or the toy could reside at the cat's home point.