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Easier Harvesting Animal Selector Panel (Pics Inside!)

When you use the keyboard, pressing the up/W/enter key in front of a group of piggies results in a large confusing menu of the same exact looking pig, giving you literally only their names to go by in determining which one is which. It would be even better if a visual cue was available immediately for every animal that still needs harvesting from. I propose one of the following UI changes to the selector panel as follows:

Animals that cannot be nibbled, squeezed, or milked any longer will show up in greyscale such as this:
dl.dropbox.com/u/76676162/G...

Alternatively, you could have their mouseover icons show up over them in the selector box like such:
dl.dropbox.com/u/76676162/G...

Either way would tremendously help efforts to deal with our critters when we have soooooo many of them overlapping. It would help even more when we visit a street where all animals have the same exact name! It's quite impossible to deal with that as it is now.

Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • wow what a fantastic idea... would make life soooo much easier :) 
    Posted 6 months ago by beemine Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes! A wonderful idea!
    Posted 6 months ago by Undercover Nun Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome. I vote this be implemented NOW!
    Posted 6 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a good idea.
    Posted 6 months ago by Foodfight Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, this UI change would be awesome. As it is now, I sometimes accidentally feed the piggies by mistake because I spam the enter key to pet/nibble them all.
    Posted 6 months ago by Mooki Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It doesn't seem like it would be difficult to do, either.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brilliant!!!

    This is one of the greatest ideas I have ever seen on here. I tried suggesting something like this 8 months ago, but I didn't explain it as well as you did, plus you had picture examples.

    Here is what I wrote on this subject 8 months ago:

    Show animal needs on "Enter" Menu

    I like how when I hover my mouse over a tree or animal it will show an icon above them with either a broken heart, water drop, milk bottle, or meat letting me know what interactions I can perform with that object. I also just recently found out that you can click those icons and perform the requested action instantly (even from across the street in the case of animal actions). 

    But I find this hard to use on my 20 pigs in my pig pen, other pigs are always walking in front of the one I am trying to hover over and it becomes very frustrating. So I stand in the middle of all my pigs and press enter, which brings up a very handy menu that allows me to select objects that are behind other objects, this is great. However I can not tell which pigs I have already pet or nibbled, and so I choose one and press enter, already pet and nibbled darn, try again, already pet and nibbled too darn, rinse repeat. I am sure that I never actually nibble all 20 pigs twice because it is too frustrating trying to figure out which ones I have and have not already interacted with. Short of making a daily spreadsheet with all of their names and check boxes I don't know what to do.

    So I would like it if those helpful icons that appear during mouse over would also appear on the selection menu while using the enter key to interact with objects.
    Posted 6 months ago by TRB4 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, those mouseover icons are nifty, but they don't work really well, you have to get your mouse on them just right and sometimes you can't get your mouse up to click the icon without it vanishing.

    Oh and when they chat with you afterwards, you can't get the icon back up till they shut up. Takes too much time. Super harvest rainbows also block clicking.

    So enhancing my keyboard experience would be extremely welcome with this proposed idea.
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This would make things so much easier, even if it was just a simple greying out. +1
    Posted 6 months ago by Kalmiopsis Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great suggestion!
    Posted 6 months ago by Hen vla Ham Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes please!
    Posted 6 months ago by IrenicRhonda Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is an awesome idea!
    Posted 6 months ago by Serra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1
    Posted 6 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
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    Posted 6 months ago by Goodnight Groddle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is a wonderful idea!!!!!! The devs should implement this right away! Good job!!!
    Posted 6 months ago by Misty Power Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Excellent! I like the second idea better since I like  to sing (but not milk or massage) to butterflies right before midnight and that would make it much easier.
    Posted 6 months ago by Candy Warhol Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes. Wonderful idea. +1.
    Posted 6 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wow, option number two forever! Brilliant idea!
    Posted 6 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for this.  Option 2 would be useful.  
    Posted 6 months ago by < This is me > Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 option 2.
    Posted 6 months ago by I Love You TS Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, in my opinion, I'd prefer option 2 as well. Sometimes when I do want to keep track of petting them too, it would be nice.

    For butterflies it could show the lotion icon for ones that still can be massaged too. (Especially useful when you need easy mood, since they sometimes give large amounts).
    Posted 6 months ago by Lorraine ♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This would especially come in handy on streets that have very tight range piggy streets.
    Posted 6 months ago by dm Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Oh. My. Yes! Please, please, please, please.
    Posted 6 months ago by foolbunny Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +9999999999
    Posted 6 months ago by AwesomeCardinal2000 Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Brilliant!!!  Plus an 8 ....  90 degree angle!
    Posted 6 months ago by ArtOfHands RoboGirl Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I like the greyed out idea.  Good thinking Lorraine!
    Posted 6 months ago by Innie✿, Obviously Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 for the second option.  I rarely want to do ALL possible verbs with an animal, but I definitely work hard to figure out which piggies can still be nibbled and which butterflies can still be sung to.  (Which would require an icon for singing to butterflies, but a nice eighth note icon would cover that.)
    Posted 6 months ago by Don Monkey Subscriber! | Permalink