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Accidentally Feeding Pigs all our Allspice - an idea

I'm still doing this! accidentally feeding all my allspice to pigs. it's SO annoying.
Earlier on I had some Abbasid Ribs, and I fed those to a pig instead, since alphabetically they are first on the list.
I can see that changing the whole menu structure would be too much for a small problem like this, but wouldn't it be great if there was an item that came first that you didn't mind feeding to your pigs? like Air? or Aair. Something that was maybe a bit of a pain to replace, but not as bad as ALL your allspice.....

Posted 14 months ago by Rather Obscure Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Or have the "cancel" option first by default.
    Posted 14 months ago by Emerena Subscriber! | Permalink
  • cancel option first would be an good way to fix it.  +111111 for this.
    Posted 14 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to cancel first.  This also needs to happen on shrines.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lucille Ball Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And batterflies. I want those stacks of awesome stew back. =(
    Posted 14 months ago by Aoi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cancel first would seem like a great way to fix it AT FIRST, but then you'd realize that a lot of those 'fast clicking' because they are intensive would be ruined, for example feeding chickens, you need to do it a lot 3 clicks each time, if you press b hover over and spam enter, they are fed fast, if cancel is first, it ruins the whole thing.

    If it could prioritize certain items that you would usually feed to certain animals that would be useful, perhaps even by grouping such as Vegetables first for pigs, or even showing food from lowest to highest energy.
    Posted 14 months ago by Bluigi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm glad I'm not the only one having this happen (accidentally feeding Piggies entire stacks of items). So far I haven't lost much, just a stack of Meat and 100 Apples, but it's only a matter of time before I end up losing something more valuable.

    It takes 6 presses of Enter to get through the two Pets and the Nibble for me. It takes 4 presses to accidentally feed a pig an entire stack of items if (1) the pig had been nibbled previously and I don't notice in time or (2) if the pig hasn't been nibbled previously, but when I open the context menu, feed is automatically selected because the context menu just -happened- to open in such a way that my mouse arrow (which I'm probably not using) is on the feed option.

    Normally #1 doesn't happen. #2 is what really catches me off guard. I have to try not to leave my mouse arrow on the game screen in case one of the context menus opens up under it and automatically highlights something that I don't want to happen, which happens surprisingly often.

    I agree that making Cancel as the default first option when selecting items to feed and donate things would improve things. It wouldn't be perfect, though, because like in the #2 example, if the item grid pops up under your mouse arrow, you'll end up feeding something to the pig anyway. It would be nice if the game would ignore the mouse after like 5 seconds of it not being used so leaving it on the game screen wouldn't result in things being selected accidentally.

    @Bluigi: I think most of us are referring to putting the cancel option at the top left of the grid of items that come up when you select to feed something or donate something, not the small list of actions that come up when interacting with things.
    Posted 14 months ago by Mr. Glenn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Blah to cancel first. Sure, it'd get rid of accidentally feeding all of my allspice to my pig, but I'd accidentally hit it so many times it would just annoy. I have two suggestions.

    First, prioritize the list. Maybe grain first, then vegetables, then others. That way, even if I do hit it accidentally or whatever, I only feed them grain and not my precious allspice.

    Second, default feed qty should be 1, not "ALL 9000!" (hyperbole ftw). If it is just 1 qty, then even if it was allspice, I would only lose the one and not have to make a run to Ix to restock.
    Posted 14 months ago by Lord Mogra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I would very much like it if the default was ONE OF THESE instead of ALL OF THESE. That is a change that really needs to happen.
    Posted 13 months ago by ✰ Lorelei ✰ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'd be pleased with either option coming up, either cancel first, or just one as the default option on feed/donate. Probably beats rearranging the piggy menu so feed is less likely the default option, as far as ease of implementing. I especially like the 1 as default as it mostly wouldn't increase the time for several sorts of actions, and still mildly penalizes clicking through too fast at times if it gets your stew.
    Posted 12 months ago by Socrates Locke Subscriber! | Permalink