I enjoy breeding KittyCats. No, let me rephrase that... I LOVE breeding KittyCats.
One of the things I love the most and that I find appealing are the many different
options available to achieve a goal. For instance, to Break Up a partnership by using a break Up Vitamin bottle or wait out the days until the partnership runs out. Or to heal an ill kitty with a Get Well or feed it throughout a whole week and then watch it derezz it's blanket, pillow and thermometer and dash off walking again. You have
options to choose from and you are not bound to do it "this" way or "this other" if you simply don't want to. You are given
options to play with and to choose whatever suits you better.
I've been breeding in world ever since I joined KittyCats, but I have used the Online Cattery in many occasions when due to RL obligations I cannot log in world. It's a simplified way of breeding, practical and straight forward. However I felt I preferred breeding in world where I had more visual aids that made my brain work through breeding projects faster and when handling a large amount of projects I really needed all the help I could get. The cattery offers all the possible features I can think of to give these same visual aids (like the access to a kitty's pedigree with 1 click) but my brain works differently and I could easily remember which pairs are rezzed where in my inworld cattery and which are the pair's OS as I have them rezzed underneath, I could remember this even when I was not in world. This is why I never adopted the Online Cattery System as "the" breeding system for me, until now:
After a maybe-not-so-long KittyCats breeding pause I decided to give the Cattery another run, as it is the kind of breeding that suits me right now due to RL restraints that prevent me from logging from my computer and to the fact that I have considerably downsized the number of breeders I keep at any given time. The Online cattery is a brilliant nifty way to keep projects going and to breed in a productive way if you're organized and if you can log in world every now and then to add K$ through your dock.
Ever since the cattery was released I found the limitation that all cats in the cattery will receive Kibble and if available, milk regardless of their Love stat. They will drink milk from the moment they turn 7 days old until their breed switches off when they turn 121 days old. When I breed in world I have the
option to segregate my breeding projects in groups using the Automatic Feeder, I rezz a few mats here and there and I change the settings to provide milk to a selected group of my choice, making milk available to kitties within range of the mat or rezzed under a specific group. These
options help me feel I have an organized system that helps me control my expenses and be able to continue breeding the way I like it, keeping a few personal projects and others that bring the "kibble to the bowl". The current Online Cattery System makes this segregation impossible, so more often than not, I end up feeding milk to cats at 100% love who are waiting for their partners to catch up or sometimes speeding up a kitty to reach 100% Love by using milk when I know it's partner won't make it that fast. This is not due to disorganization but to the fact that I often swap a kitty's partner to get a certain offspring or to have more chances to discover a hidden trait with another partner and then I might move that kitty back to it's old partner or to another. I do this very often while breeding starters to discover their hidden traits. This is just 1 example, Love stats can get out of sync for a myriad of reasons and at the moment, there are not as many options in the Online Cattery as there are in world to sync them.
If I could have the
option to manually select which kitties receive milk it would really help a lot to have a more organized breeding in the Online Cattery and to make available the same
options we have in world.
I won't even attempt to make suggestions on how to do it, or how to do it as I have no experience in web designing and I am not aware of the technical limitations, but even having a simple "Feed Milk On/Off" button that is "on" by default to avoid user error and leave us to manually select to turn it off would be very useful.
I have seen other threads requesting the
option to be able to stop feeding specific cats (or all of them) in the Online Cattery so they can use it as storage for Kitties pending for permapet or simply those we do not want to part with. I think this request can be tended to in the same way as mine.
Thank you very much in advance for considering this request and I welcome the input from the Community on this matter.
Giuliana.
~Online Cattery Kibble/Milk Distribution~
