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Overfeeding piggies = exploding piggies to get lots of seeds

I made a joke in another idea thread about how if I accidentally feed 532 tomatoes to a piggy, that I at least want to see the piggy explode, but the more I think about it, the more I think it's a decent idea.

Imagine this: You want to turn your tomatoes into tomato seeds, but you don't want to sit there and hand feed the piggy 3 tomatoes at a time for the next 15 minutes. (This interaction is very grindy and boring, believe me.)  Instead, you just feed a ton of tomatoes to your piggy. After a second, the piggy goes poof but you're left with all of the seeds, ready to get picked up.

I know it sounds mean, but the butterflies poof when they get used up, so why not piggies? It would also help the auction market for piggies and create a way for piggies to exit the world. (Right now there seems to be a glut of piggies in the world since the change restricting selling to vendors and donating to shrines.)

Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I am not sure this is the correct game mechanic, although I do find it ridiculously amusing!
    I do think that avid gardeners do want a way to produce seeds that is NOT as grindy as it is at the moment.  So, 32 plots, need 32 seeds, that's 96 bits that I'm feeding the "garden support pig" that I keep upstairs.

    I would rather that I can just feed the pig 96 bits, and have the result. Even if I have to wait 10 minutes or even a few hours for the digestion to take place.

    I would also rather that if I leave food on the ground, that that counts as feeding the pigs. IE, I leave a ton of corn in the pig pen -- when I come back, that amount of corn, divided by 5 or even 10 produces the seeds.

    I don't want to disincentivize the hand-feeders.  But I would happily pay the penalty for the convenience.

    That's my two currants.

    ~CTP
    Posted 13 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 both ideas. Exploding pigs is funny and a little disturbing (not necessarily a deal-breaker in this game) but a faster way to get seeds would be great. the feed, select, examine, pickup routine is pretty tedious.
    Posted 13 months ago by Niqster Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Exploding pigs to get seeds. Awesome idea. Imagine if you could actually use them as 'Bombs', feed them to the point of near explosion, take them into the mine with you and give them that final dose causing them to explode and break the rocks nearby AND litter the ground with seeds.
    Posted 13 months ago by rorschach Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I don't want to explode my piggy! But feeding it veggies in multiples of 3 should definitely make it drop an appropriate amount of seeds all at once.
    Posted 13 months ago by HeyHeyHolly Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't know... +1 million for exploding piggies, but maybe not exclusively to get seeds....
    Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And when they explode, can they please do so over my garden, thereby planting, fertilizing and potentially watering simultaneously?
    Posted 13 months ago by Mablem Tiipot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I was thinking more of a poof (like butterflies) and less of a bloody, chunky, fertilizing explosion, but I do like the idea of a one-step gardening tool.

    Ur is really filling up with piggies. There's no way to get rid of them now that we can't donate or sell to vendors, and it seems like people are hatching pigs (for the badges) faster than glitchen capture pigs for their own yards.

    If we changed piggy plop behavior to automatically plop out the right number of seeds (if you fed 30 veg you'd get 10 seeds) we could still have sporadic piggy explosions to keep the population down. Maybe piggy seed explosions would only happen occasionally, say every 10th time. That'd help keep the pig population balanced without reducing it too much.
    Posted 13 months ago by Knitomaton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Need to find a way to make some of the chickens go Poof in a cloud of feathers !! Maybe collect feathers to make pillows for pillow fights !!! :))
    Getting sick of them running around in the mines while trying to click on rocks.
    Posted 13 months ago by BlackWolf Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree BlackWolf.  -_-
    Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do not like the exploding piggy concept at all. Sorry. But I do think feeding multiples of 3 of a crop at once ought to result in seeds.
    Posted 13 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I find it weird that people are talking about a glut of piggies when I still can't keep people from stealing the pigs from my housing block every few days. Or stealing the food left out for them so that they all die.

    I am, however, in favor of a mechnism that allows for the creation of more than one piggy plop/seed packet at once. It works for the batterflies!
    Posted 13 months ago by karibean Subscriber! | Permalink