Creatures Caves

Yup, its now confirmed that the cheese and teddies do refill their respective bars completely. So that gives the apples, balls and medicine being +1, the carrots and duckies being +2, and the teddies, cheese, and elixirs being full bars. However, besides always starting out with 1 elixir, I'm not sure of the exact amounts that we are given in inventory of the other items for each creatchi. The care guide says 3 each but there might have been a change in that respect since that was updated last and my google-fu has turned up nothing. That could be still accurate but since we don't see our inventories until our creatchis hatch it can be hard telling if we've been active and accumulating items while they're incubating. I'd appreciate confirmation on the starting numbers there.

But considering that we've been averaging barely two pages of creatchis, it very well likely would be way easier for Rascii to lower the number of people required to rescue a dying creatchi than it is to implement a vacation/automatic emergency care feature. The creatchi feature used to average about 3-4 pages of creatchis with curious/active caregivers but interest (and other obvious factors like life outside the community) has made the population lower a lot over time. There would be a lot of balance tweaking involved with what I suggested prior and that probably isn't worth the work for the approximately 20-25 people playing the site feature at any given time. There's probably even less people consistently visiting the site to check in on their creatchi too to make sure that they don't perish before their time.

So, lowering the helper requirement may help out more but it raises the question: Is there a cap on how many help prompts are fulfilled before the creatchi is left to die?

I can't find any data pertaining to that, but I'm not keen on the idea of volunteering to run another experiment to find out. I've raised 76 creatchis to senility so far and I don't want to break that streak just to get that answer. Especially with as few people as we have left here who consistently check in to look after their creatchi and see what's new on site. And I happen to like being able to see what I'm hatching so that I can help bolster old bloodlines and begin new ones. I don't see finding the answer to that happening unless I can get about 10 people voluntarily dedicated to click that help button per prompt cycle.

If Rascii doesn't speak first to answer that question, that is. [nlaugh]