(11-10-2015 06:41 AM)MsMagick Resident Wrote: I didn't cuddle last night just to illustrate this. This is at about 19 1/2 hours after cuddling:
Happiness Solid @ 74%:
The funny thing is, two of them have gained happiness from 74% to 75% since I first logged on. (I was waiting to see if it dropped lower.) I'm sure they're happy to be getting a good night's sleep!
Hmmm... a bunch of them dropped down to 74% when they hit 10% hungry. Not unexpected, but I didn't know there was a line there.
Yep, I let my cats go for a little over 23 hours, after I had cuddled them for 60 mins, when highest Happiness was from 86 to 89% 23 hours earlier. Of the eight cats tested, 5 of them had dropped below 75% Happiness (72% - 74%), and 3 of them were still Solid Happiness. Of the cats still at 75% or higher all were still solid. What I did notice was the solid Happiness cats were still sleeping, meaning their Energy was high, over 80%. To summarize then, 2 open circles and 3 solid circles below 75%, and the solids were all asleep.
Since I have had trouble with the tags always updating, I woke up the 3 sleeping cats and then cycled them to 2D and back to 3D. THe Happiness circles were still solid.
Confusing results? - the circle clearly is not just related to the Happiness value.
I kept watching the still solid cats as they dropped below 75%. Again, no obvious pattern as to which ones remained solid or turned clear.
After another hour (>24 hrs from last cuddle), all the cats were below 75% and all the circles were open. I am thinking the circle is on a daily time cycle, that is different for every cat. What determines the 24 hour cycle, time from last box dropped, birth date, or time last cuddled? Since there is no documentation at all on how the happiness circle is determined, its anyone's guess.
The safest way to assure you keep the Happiness solid is multiple cuddlings/day - or Buy Milk, the preferred method from KC's view.
I did another experiment to see what the maximum Happiness could reach. I selected a cat at 98% Energy that had just awoken on its own.
Just before cuddling:
72% Happy
98% Energy
9% Hungry
After 30 mins Cuddling:
98% Happy !
85% Energy
2% Hungry
After 60 mins Cuddling:
97% Happy
78% Energy
1% Hungry
After 120 mins Cuddling
96% Happy
68% Energy
1% Hungry
So, as you can see, cuddling with a high Energy can produce very high values of Happiness. And continued cuddling causes the Happiness to decrease, because the Energy is decreasing. So this is the high energy test. The low energy test resulted in maximum Happiness only in the mid 80% range.
The cats cuddled at the higher energy also all stayed at or above 75% Happiness at the 24 hour mark, btw.
Does 10% Hunger also reduce Happiness? Who really knows, - Energy does, so why not food? As to to why the program is written like this - well if you Buy Milk you don't have to keep track of all these times - so was it programmed for inconvenience?
After all in the Cattery, you must use Milk or nothing - only us in-world breeders have the chance to cheat the Milk system by cuddling or petting.
PS
Quote:The funny thing is, two of them have gained happiness from 74% to 75% since I first logged on. (I was waiting to see if it dropped lower.) I'm sure they're happy to be getting a good night's sleep!
Yes on the kitty I cuddled at High Energy, when I checked on it 16 hours later it was 79% Happy. As I was checking the other cats, I noticed its Happineess moved up to 80%. I figured it was just glad to see me.
PPS
Even more surprising - just checked on the cat I got up to 98% Happiness nearly 32 hours ago - She was detached at 08:40 AM SLT, Nov. 9, 2015:
? 7T-f CL OB VAMP (9T BB?ADC OB?ONYX SC FLAME)
? 81 days ?? 100% ? 78% ? 85% ?? 0%
Happiness still 78%, after 32 hours, but the Happy circle is clear. Note High Energy and 0% hunger. Being rested and stuffed with food more important to Happiness than cuddling? (There is NO Milk rezzed on my SIM, don't even have it in inventory.) Well that's a typical cat!
Too Much Happiness Decreases Happiness?
