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What on Earth is Happening to the Meat Collectors??

Without changing anything, I can see HUGE differences in the amount of meat my meat collectors collect.  A few weeks ago I noticed my meat collectors were collecting about 1/5 or 1/6 of the amount they normally collect.  I asked in live help and forums but never got an answer, then after about a week they started collecting their normal amounts again.  This afternoon when I logged on they were back to 1/5 or 1/6 of the amount they normally collect.

I am not changing anything in my house (other than planting/harvesting herbs and petting/watering my egg tree).  I haven't added any animals or collectors, or removed any animals or collectors.  Is this a bug I should report ??

Posted 14 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • I uh.....haven't noticed this at all.

    Mine actually went a little crazy today, I was gone for an hour and a half, and it collected 60 with my smallish amount of piggies. Or I possibly was wrong about thinking I checked it before I left....

    Maybe ask in Live help again tomorrow, at a time when the majority of staff are awake? We're on the UK shift right now, and while I know there are people keeping an eye on the game, I'm not sure there are as many as during the HQ shift.
    Posted 14 months ago by Biohazard Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yea, I had mine working awfully for like 2 days a week or so ago. I had just added a 2nd one and a 5th piggy before I went to sleep that night. When I woke, between the two they'd gathered 8 overnight and normally one was almost full with 4 piggies, so I figured at least one should be full.

    I watched them all day after collecting those 8 and they never gathered more again that day. So that night I put one in my cabinet and when I woke in the morning, the one that I'd left out was full. So I got the 2nd one out of the cabinet and put it down, and ever since they'd been collecting fine... Until this evening.

    This evening (after both being full this morning, and working properly most of the day), they only had like 4 or something in one, which was the same as it was a few hours ago. So I picked them both up and dropped them both, then petted all my piggies (in case that was it- low on meat) and will see where they are when I wake in the morning.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Little Miss Giggles:  Yeah I've been having very similar problems!! What is going on?  This is my only source of energy (I don't have any cooking skills I only eat the raw meat collected from my pigs) so I need this to work!
    Posted 14 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I too am really perplexed with the meat collectors.  With all my piggies i should be able to have 4 or 5 going in my house, but if i add more than 2 they simply stop collecting at all.  Very very odd.
    Posted 14 months ago by Sweetness Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, checked my collectors again- there is 5 meat in one, after ~9 hours. One meat per piggy (I even petted the piggies twice! And I usually pet my piggies at least once a game day that I'm logged in). Not sure what is up with them. The other week when I had the problem, I'd opened a ticket and kept updating it with my observations.

    ETA: I just tried nibbling a piggy manually, and it said that it had no meat. So I'm guessing maybe they need to recharge their little fatty deposits. I didn't think to test that last week. I also checked my feeder, and it was empty. I rarely forget to fill it, but I must have in the past couple of busy evenings.

    My thoughts now are that it's not an issue with the collectors, but that the poor piggies need to be fed and petted so they can once again perform their duties, so maybe check on that and see if you have a similar issue!
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hmm. This *might* be related, but I tried to nibble on a piggy this morning (new day card already shown) and piggy said he was all meated out. So I petted him - not necessary at AK 6 - and viola! nibbles were accepted, meat was given.
    Posted 14 months ago by TK-855 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You are all mentioning meat collectors.  Do you have piggie feeders?  Just a thought.
    Posted 14 months ago by Marla Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hah, TK-855. You posted faster than I could ETA.  Though, I did pet them all twice before I went to bed last night.

    And yes, Marla, I do. And usually I fill it multiple times a day, but I am assuming I forgot as the last few days have been busy, and I haven't been IG much. I don't remember if I had forgotten last week.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a piggy feeder and it is constantly full.  I woke up this morning and still had 44/80 in my piggy feeder but my collectors were not filled, and they normally fill overnight.
    Posted 14 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Okay, after filling my feeder and petting all my piggies, I got 5 more meat within the past 20 min or so. I think that must have been my problem. I'll be keeping an eye on it though.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well, I'd just gotten a batch of seeds out of the little fella, so maybe his output is limited.
    Posted 14 months ago by TK-855 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don't know if anyone's mentioned this or if you've tried it yet, but for some reason it helps to have the collectors staggered slightly rather than stacked one on top of each other.  The low collection issue is something that was seen occasionally in beta as well, but from what I remember it never really got a clear answer for it other than a variety of factors affect meat production.  (The staggering usually helped though.)
    Posted 14 months ago by Marebito Subscriber! | Permalink
  • they wont donate meat unless full of food. and it is less than beta right now.
    Posted 14 months ago by Djoe6897 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I went looking for a solution to a similar problem and I found this thread.  I have 25 pigs, 8 butterflies and 8 chickens.  2 feeders, 2 butterfly milkers and 4 meat collectors.  All of a sudden only 1 milker and 1 meat collector work.  I've tried removing a few,  moved them around, they were never stack I have always had them staggered.

    Any help would be great.

    Thanks ...

    Dave W
     
    Posted 13 months ago by Webbie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My meat collectors were doing the same thing. I have 25 pigs and I left my collectors overnight and collected 25 meats. (It normally collects around 240 meats overnight.) Then in the next few hours it collected 60 meats.
    Posted 13 months ago by Paxton Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I too have the same problem.  I have 20 piggies and 8 meat collectors.  I got them all because there were a couple days I wasn't going to be on and I wanted to still collect all the meat.  I also have 3 piggy feeders that are never empty and 5 butterfly milkers for my 9 butterflies.

    I used to get at least one full meat collector in about an hour, but in the last few days I'm lucky to get that overnight.  And only one of my meat collectors and one of my milkers seem to be collecting anything.  The others just remain empty.  I've tried rearranging the collectors and milkers but this has not made a difference.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

    Happenchance
    Posted 13 months ago by Happenchance Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine are acting like too with the piggies saying they are out of meat if I nibble them. I have a piggy feeder too. I didn't think you had to pet the piggies with RHK. I only have like 7 piggies to boot so it's not like they are over-crowded.
    Posted 13 months ago by Griselda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine are still broken. When I reported it after talking with a staff member they merely said "yeah, we're aware of this problem" :-( Sadly the piggies are still eating from the feeders, so it's costing me currants to upkeep them but I'm not getting anything back in the collectors in return.
    Posted 13 months ago by ✦ SHI∇IΔΠ ✦ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, the staff is working on this. They'll get it fixed as soon as they can!
    Posted 13 months ago by Zany Serendipity Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If we could have another dozen threads on the same topic that'd be superkeen!
    Posted 13 months ago by Evadrepus Terramere Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Devs are working on it!
    Posted 13 months ago by Niks Subscriber! | Permalink
  • My collector seems fine.

    Oh, and there isn't any "norms" here in Glitch...All is but a glimmer of the innerGlitch that shines within us all!
    Posted 13 months ago by MeherMan Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Headed to this thread to report my meat collectors have stopped working properly today too, but it's good to know they are working on this.
    Posted 13 months ago by Heatseeker Subscriber! | Permalink
  • gah. i've been out all day and NONE of my collectors have meat. D:
    Posted 13 months ago by cyre Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mine are not working either. I have 21 piggies and 5 meat collectors. I have 4 piggie feeders always full. 2 of my collectors are not really collecting.
    Posted 13 months ago by AwesomeLALA Subscriber! | Permalink