(09-16-2015 11:06 AM)Ellen Ireland Wrote: Is it only the first 30 minutes per day of cuddling that counts for building love points?
Cuddling increases Happiness. Love increases at a faster rate when Happiness is 75% or greater.
When Happiness is less than 75%, Love increases at a rate of 0.4166%/hour
When Happiness is 75% or greater, Love increases at a rate of 0.5952%/hour.
That is, 7 days when "happy" and 10 days when "unhappy" to Gain 100% Love for breeding.
When you cuddle a kitty, Happiness increases every time the server samples and revises the cat's statistics. That interval varies depending on the KC server load, but is usually around every 8 minutes. When you start to cuddle it makes no difference when the server checks on your cat - you could see Happiness increase in 1 min or 10 mins. Happiness seems to increase about 2-3% per sampling period, so there is no need to cuddle for a fixed time each day. About 30 mins of cuddling will get the Happiness in the 90% region usually - but it all depends on where the happiness was when you started.
I've never heard of a 24 hour lag in Happiness - cuddling produces results within minutes, and once Happiness is 75% or greater, then Love also increases at the higher rate shown above.
You can also increase Happiness while your kitty is sleeping. That is important because it needs to sleep to increase Energy. You increase Happiness with a sleeping cat by Petting it. Since you can Pet a sleeping MegaPuss, that is another way to increase their happiness. When a Mega is awake you can only Ride it to increase Happiness. Or spend more money to feed it Milk, like all other KittyCats.
All of this only applies to cats raised In-world. If you use the Cattery you are forced to buy Milk in the Cattery to increase Happiness and indirectly, the Love rate.
