~Online Cattery Kibble/Milk Distribution~

[Tad Carlucci]

It would be nice if this were done.

In the meantime, many of us use ALTs for this. It's a hassle logging in to SL just to pass cats back and forth, but it's the only way right now.

My suggestion is to add a column to the Cattery SQL database named 'Area'.

The user can change this on a cat-by-cat basis, for live cats in the Cattery, ONLY.

While it would be nice to be able to define our own areas, a selected list would do:

1) the default .. what we have now, only partnered cats breed, consume milk, consume food
2) open breeding .. non-partnered cats randomly select an eligible mate, consume milk, consume food (this models in-world, which Cattery lacks)
3) slow .. only partnered cats breed, consume food, do NOT consume milk
4) slow/open .. non-partnered cats randomly select an eligible mate, consume food, do NOT consume milk
5) holding .. only partnered cats breed (but this is probably meaningless since they won't due to hunger), do NOT consume milk, do NOT consume food.

I was going to think up cute names for each of these five areas, but my name-thinker-upper kathunked and stopped working.

Partnered cats must both be in the same area to produce a box. For events such are the special kitties we're currently running, this allows us to prepare for the event by separating partners (between 1 and 2, probably, or 3 and 4) so they're ready-to-go at the start of the event. It also allows us to prevent a box and force auto-renew partnerships to stop, without break-up juice, like we can in-world.

When sending in to the Cattery:
- Cats on Pet food would be placed in group 3 since they do not need milk and won't breed
- Perma-pets would be placed in group 5 since they do not need food or milk
- Cats which were in an area return to that same area
- All other cats (and Cattery-opened boxes) go to area 1, just as they do now.

Rollout considerations:
- consider moving pets to areas 3 and 5 at rollout to reduce workload for users with lots of pets.
- consider a time-limited offer, subscribed before rollout, to transfer an entire Cattey from one ALT to another. User must prove ownership of both avatars. No-transfer cats should not be moved.

User interface considerations (Cattery live cats and Cattery->SL pages; if possible, omit from Menagerie->SL page for oopsie bottles):
- New sort/select options for live cats to sort by area or show only one area
- New hover-button in cat info block to assign to a different area
- Pop-up to verify correct cat and select the area (drop-down SELECT list), OK/Cancel buttons.

Pedigree pages:
- new column on roster to show Area (add "in-world" for not-in-Cattery and 'Cattery" for boxes in Cattery)
- sort/select by Area on roster

PedigreeView pages:
- new field on info block to show area for owned cats. Can replace "Menageried" field.
- sort/select option for offspring, (add "not yours" and "menageried" for non-owned cats, plus "in-world" and "cattery" as on roster).