Feed Button Suggestion

jirachiwishmaker • 9 August 2012 at 7:34 AM

Feedings take a long time and can be very tedious too. It takes 2 clicks per feed 1 to feed and 1 to go to the next creature. Well, I figured that the easy code you have for posting up your creatures on sites can be also used for feedings too. You can toggle which creatures need to be fed, or you can have the click all and they can be all fed at once. This way people who want to have more ec can do more feedings of coves because of the simple feed button Its a good idea and should be utilized then when all is fed it's easier to collect your ec. I guarantee everyone would participate more in cove feedings since it'd be more simple.

dionaea • 9 August 2012 at 7:43 AM

@chloelove

This site exists partly because of ad revenue, so a click all button or not visiting the pages wouldn't be possible. Plus EC would be worth next to nothing -.-'

If you want to feed faster, don't use the 'next' button. The fastest way to feed is to open multiple tabs by keeping ctrl pressed and then clicking multiple pets in a cove. Next you open one of these tabs and simply click the 'feed' button, now use ctrl + w to close the tab. If you don't move your mouse you can now click the feed button on the next page straight away and then close that tab etc etc. This way of feeding is faster because you don't have to wait for the page to load. I can open about 20 tabs like this in Google Chrome and it takes me far less than a minute to feed em.

EDIT: The only way a click all button would be feasible is if you get MUCH less EC per creature, like only 10 or so, that way there's still an incentive to feed normally.

jirachiwishmaker • 9 August 2012 at 7:53 AM

@dionaea

Thanks for letting me know this, but if you look at the way the easy code is set up you don't have to feed all the creatures. You need to see what I'm talking about having the toggle under each creature is good because you can toggle which ones need to be fed only. Or the feed all link helps too. And no I don't think it'd be less ec for doing so, if you can feed more coves this way. Please look at the easy code section that setup is perfect for feedings of lots of animals at one time.

unknownangels • 9 August 2012 at 8:04 AM

@chloelove
@dionaea

as much as i would loooooove a feed all button...i have to agree with dionaea ...a lot of sites are sponsored by ads...no ads..no sponsor...yea they would still have the ads but it wouldnt be nearly as much.

dionaea i use chrome too , i feed the same way XD

jirachiwishmaker • 9 August 2012 at 8:13 AM

@unknownangels but if you feed that way it's opening more then 1 window is that really easier? I know that they have to have ads show up, but are you looking at the easy code setup? Not everyone wants all their creatures fed especially immortals or just certain ones. The reason why I say that is because when you look at the easy code section there's a toggle box underneath each creature and you can click on the ones you need to feed only. Some coves are picky about which ones you feed unless they have a feed only list on one of their tabs. New users might not get it and just feed all creatures not knowing that immortals dont need to be fed as much. And by the way it's just a suggestion for easier feedings if it can be done it'd be nice, but it's an idea. And thanks for posting.

ems • 9 August 2012 at 12:29 PM

@chloelove
As much as I love the idea, I will have to agree with @dionaea. EC wouldn't be worth anything! If you could feed that fast, (which would be AWESOME!!!) then Ec wouldn't be worth as much anymore. A trade for 8k would turn into a trade for 8 million EC!

dionaea • 9 August 2012 at 12:57 PM

@chloelove

I don't know what browser you're using, but if it's opening new windows you're either not using Chrome or IE or you're doing something wrong. You're supposed to be opening tabs, which does in fact make feeding a lot easier (it's fastest in Chrome in my experience). And yeah, unfortunately pets you don't want fed get fed anyway, that's how things work, if you want a pet to stay 'forever young' you have to get a freeze (which is another source of revenue for Eggcave). One way to get people to feed the pets you want fed is by making a covelist and giving it a name like "FEED ONLY THESE!!!1!", but I don't think Ian will make it possible to somehow keep pets completely out of the way of feeders, since you can't prevent views either. The best way to keep pets from evolving is getting a secret storage account.