emeraldfox#5928

YESS this is such a good idea!! Even with paying for a sitter every week, it can even be a pain/hard to remember to come back exactly 7 days afterward to renew the sitter so your pet doesn't run away... although the new daycare update is real nice and might help make keeping pets without daily interaction easier, something like this would STILL be extremely beneficial! :O EDIT: it turns out, putting an active pet into the nursery costs 2k credits, so the daycare definitely Won't act as a good substitute for the sitter alternative, considering the price you'd have to pay every time you would want to take your pet out, interact with it, and put it back in... I absolutely stand by your suggestion of a sitter subscription, i really love that!! And I'm glad I'm not the only one daunted by the amount of interaction a pet needs in order for it to not run away LOL

OH this update is so wonderful!! I have an additional question about the daycare functionality-- if you take a pet out, can you put them back in the same day? Basically, is there a sort of time limit between putting them in and taking them out? :o EDIT: i'm still not 100% sure if you can spam them in and out of the nursery, but i have effectively answered my own question for 2k credits! LOL

How does the nursery work? Do you put pets in and take them out whenever? I see a pet in there actually, but i dont see any prompts to interact with them nor anything in the t!help menu that would specify otherwise :O And yeah, if you're active that doesn't seem to be a problem! I suppose I got comfortable with the luxury of not being active on discord for a few days with an active sitter and coming back to my pet still alive and fine and being able to interact with them instead of losing them and having to pay for another pet :(

I am here to advocate for more accessible sitters (cheaper, easier to acquire) and/or a simplification of the sitter system! Me and my friends have been taking care of our cats from before the update that overhauled the previous pets and gave all the new features. Since then, though, we have found it exponentially harder to take care and keep our cats. Maybe the higher pricing and sitters divided by need was something that the developers saw as a necessity to maintain engagement, but now me and my friends can't keep a pet for longer than a couple weeks tops (as we cant always check the server every day and don't have enough points to buy three sitters every week) and i feel its unnecessary to have such a demanding requirement. What I would suggest is either merging the sitters into one purchase so its less of a hassle to buy all three as well as making the unit cheaper, or simply lowering the price of all three so its more feasible to upkeep pets with lower necessary engagement. Of course, there Should be a punishment for low engagement, but its saddening that me and my friends can no longer keep our old pets alive and not have to stress about losing them constantly u__u I'm not sure how many others deal with this issue (LMK what you think!), but I feel it would definitely encourage more long-term engagement in general!