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Community Project Proposal: Help the little piggies live their piggy lives...with their piggy wives....

I live in Mazza'la. Kalavana to be exact. I specialize in AK. I've been known to toss a piglet into a random Glitchen's inventory. I have a lot of bales made from grain. During Beta, I never thought I'd have so much butterfly milk (because I hated catching the buggers), but I now find milking well-named butterflies kind of relaxing. 

I spend very little time at home.

Why do I spend so little time at home? Because I'm lucky if I can find a piggy who's not in my herb cellar. I'm constantly having to walk to the Groddle (or take the train, depending on my mood) in order to find a piggy. So today, when my quest for AK VII came up when I just got home, I got fed up. Why are there no piggies down here? Do people hate the marshlands that much? We've got a nice mix of egg plants, spice plants, and gas trees. We have peat. We have barnacles. We have fireflies. And while I understand how horrible it can be to navigate some places (especially in Chakra Phool) when you're experiencing lag, there are crystals to be made!

But very few of us are going to be prepared when we need those things for street projects. Because we're not going to be able to find food without bringing our bankrolls or surviving on flour.

So I've started focusing on hatching piggies near home. And I want help. Not just for Mazza'la, but everywhere. Come across a street without a piggy or with only one piggy? Have the required skills to fix that? You could just take one from another street (especially if it's your quest). But that's just shuffling the currently existing population around. You could either season or buy some piggy eggs, toss one or more under a chicken or chickens, feed the piglet a few cheap veggies (spinach is cheap), and bless that street with a piggy for nibbles. 

 It'd be nice to have at least two piggies a street (so they don't get lonely). I probably went overboard with my home street (9 piggies). But I started branching out today, leaving the Four Musketeers on a neighboring street before I decided I need to go to bed. So I came here to rally the troops before I sleep.

So what do you say? Who's with me? Who wants to help populate the streets of Ur with love and energy in piggy form?

Posted 15 months ago by Quirk Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Note: if you're going to help in the marshes, make sure you show up with plenty of pre-seasoned eggs or a lot of potatoes, apples, and hard bubbles. There are no crop gardens, bubble trees, or fruit trees down here. Which is actually probably one of the reasons so few piggies exist in the region.
    Posted 15 months ago by Quirk Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hey, I don't make it down to the marshes very often, but would be happy to mail you some piglets for "redistribution" if that would be helpful!
    Posted 15 months ago by Starbright Subscriber! | Permalink
  • sounds like a good idea! I'm in.
    Posted 15 months ago by sinisterstories Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It is also important to feed and tend the pigs already out in the streets.  By all means we should hatch more.  But the existing pigs need to be fed and petted and loved, too, or they will just die.
    Posted 15 months ago by Parrow Gnolle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I pet evey piggie I come across, but I should start carrying around some eggs and set one to hatch when I get to a steet without adequate piggies. I always have "ground stuff" they can eat, so this would not be too difficult. Or maybe I will churn out piggie eggs and send them to all my friends. I love piggies. :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hrm... mayhaps it's time to start the UPI - the Urian Piggie Initiative.  Long live the piggies!
    Posted 15 months ago by Crifmer Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love to see this! I don't know if it's the concerted effort I've heard about to capture and sell hogtied piggies, random opportunists, or a mix of both, but the world, especially outside of groddle, has been noticeably pork light in the past few days. So bravo to this noble effort!
    Posted 15 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I do the same thing in Chakra Phool, though a lot of my piggies get captured by people passing through... it's a neverending cycle. I just hope they're going to good homes :)
    Posted 15 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the kind of initiative I can get behind!  Yay, piggies!!
    Posted 15 months ago by noqualia Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I live in Kalavana too...we def need more pigs.  and I confess...I stole two of the last ones yesterday and put them in my house (Piggy Capture quest, sorry!)

    They are probably meat by now anyway, since I don't have skills to operate a piggy feeder and I can't play much today.

    I promise I will replace those pilfered pigs and more!
    Posted 15 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you are a member of the animal kinship alliance (AKA), go sign up and I will send you a piggy egg for a public street.
    Posted 15 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I live in Bortola and used to go around letting pigs loose, but they'd disappear within hours because of people just hogtying them and taking them home, so I quit trying. ):
    Posted 15 months ago by Augustana Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I captured pigs and donated them to shrines all the time in beta. There seems to a be a lack of them this time around, so I guess I'll help out until they over populate. Then they go to the gods!
    Posted 15 months ago by erik Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow...put four pigs on my street in Kalavana on Fitadara Fry and they were all gone in AN HOUR.  yeesh. 

    Did get this though.
    Posted 14 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I live in Andra and used to leave piggies here and there, as well as bringing the few I've rescued from the ancestral lands. They've all disappeared within hours so I just stopped trying. :(
    ETA: Stopped trying letting them loose, I still rescue them!
    Posted 14 months ago by Andobas Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The project seems to be going well.  I saw several pigs in Kalavana yesterday - Thanks!
    Posted 14 months ago by Brib Annie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • @Brib Annie: Kalavana's next door to me, pretty much, so I've been going down there to drop a few off (and others seem to be also). So far I've only dropped 5 off, but I'll probably be back next time I play- it's starting to become a mini-game for me :) piggies and butterflies both.
    Posted 14 months ago by Djabriil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I don know.  I don't like the sight of piggies and butterflies and chickens in the firebogs.   A new member complained that he went halfway around Ur and still ended up interacting with the same stuff.  Chickens are the worst.

    We've got barnacles and fireflies and eggs.  The music and artwork are wonderful.  Its a truly unique place and I feel that piggies are just going to make it feel like same old same old..

    Are we going to need fireflies in groddle next?  to be fair to the groddle residents?
    Posted 14 months ago by Treesa Subscriber! | Permalink