Suggestion: Ability to transfer food and milk in and out of the cattery

[Tad Carlucci]

There is a multiple-bird, one-stone opportunity.

Another recent thread requested the ability to purchase Food and/or Milk someplace OTHER than the main store. The Second Life Marketplace is one suggestion.

But allowing food/milk/vitamins to transfer in and out of the cattery solves that problem.

This requires adding the "send to cattery" function to the supplies. That's simple enough.

It also requires adding the supplies to the Dock so they can be "send in-world". This could present some special security problems since the "template" would need to be stored in the Dock and it would need to be impossible to use the templates without proper authentication and authorization checks.

An alternative to putting the supplies in the Dock would be some form of networked dispenser. The idea here is that the only food you need purchase is Cattery-food. The dispenser would replace in-world food, drawing the the Cattery total. I have to say, however, that, while a quick-and-dirty implementation would be fairly easy, this is not as simple as it sounds since there are a lot of design issues which really should be addressed.