Since the feature to seize a random pet was removed there really is no penalty to never feeding them, besides not having any money of course.
Still, there are plenty of days I end the day with less money than required to feed my pets (if I had no food) by my own choice; I spend it all. XD

Right now, a person could technically do that every day before roll-over, and avoid having to feed their pets. Just put it all into item and pet auctions with no repercussions.

I think it would be a good idea to stop pets that haven't eaten that day from being able to level up. After all, diet dictates stats, so logically if they are getting no food they shouldn't gain stats. Once a pet hits the EXP they need to advance to the next level, it "freezes" and they stop gaining experience.

Or perhaps they could level up anyway but get no, or much less than normal, stat increase.

I also considered having hungry pets be "tired" and regenerate energy less slowly but that seems unfair. After all, if you are legitimately out of food and money how are you supposed to get more if you can't explore with them? Potentially the same for quests, so they can still make you money if you are struggling to feed them all.
I do think it would also be fair if the pets were too tired to build things or train in the ridinghall however.

Or it could be argued that maybe you need to downsize if you can't feed them all and those things should be limited. I dunno.

I don't expect this to be popular but still feel it should be done since the feature in it's current state is ripe for abuse.

(Also this suggestion doesn't distinguish between feeding your pets with gathered food or silver deducted from your account. Both count as feeding.)

I quite like this. Particularly the "tired" idea where you cannot build or train. I also think breeding could add to this where they cannot breed either. They should be allowed to explore to get more money, and quest though, because there needs to be some way to get more feeding money. Basically any "extra" stuff could be restricted :)

Really good idea, you put a lot of thought into it.

I support this too ^v^

well though out enspecaly the tired status ... cause even with slower energy gain you still have energy to explore with.

there really does need to be a penalty for not actually feeding your creatures.

I kind of support the idea of "tired". Although since 1 day our time is a lot more in game time, going out food for that amount of time would probably cause any creature to technically stave to death.

So, thinking that way, I think it'd be better if they became "malnourished" and had ALL of their stats lowered by a certain percent if not fed.

I'd vote for "tired" especially because I think that if you had no money for food, I wouldn't be the only one to offer you a bit of cash so you can explore. Maybe you would only get tired if 4 of the food requirements can't be filled, instead of any.

Hey, pretty much anything is fine with me, I just feel it shouldn't be nothing

Feel free to add your own ideas too.

While I -hate- sites where you have to feed pets to do anything. I played one dog site once where I was literally banned because I didn't log on enough to make money to feed my dog and he was seized... It was crazy. They made me feel like an animal abuser which I would never do in real life. That is the extreme of course.... annnndd I'm ranting.

Anyway....

With all the disdain I have for site like that I support this. Food has to have a better use than "it will deduct money". I have barely explored at all this last week and have enough saved to just suck up the cost... I've literally battled one pet and I would gladly pay for his food... But pets that aren't doing anything shouldn't have to eat as much as pets that are "working".

And as you pointed out, Anakokou, people can bypass this fee (It would take some dedication but yes). I also think that it would ruin some of the purpose of explore (besides resources/xp). I'd just leave all the food really and suffer, and I'd never buy it from the state store. So yeah. Make a reprecussion, but not a drastic one.

(sorry for spelling errors, I'm on a new device).

Actually if you REALLY wanted to have zero money at the end of the day, you could put an auction up (like 1 wood) for just a LITTLE bit more money than you currently have. The auction would limbo your money, no one else would pay for 1 wood, and then when you start playing the next day you can free up your money by buying out the auction.

This is pretty much auction abuse -- however, but people already use the auction house as a temp. inventory so really using it as a bank, while just as bad, can hardly be considered worse.

Yeah, one thing that occurred to me is, if you end the day with food and don't want to feed, you can put it up for auction and then bid on your own auction so you have no money too.

That's a pretty bad exploit but I haven't seen anyone do that yet. However nothing is stopping you from doing it and there is no penality so... I'd say it's a matter of time.

It'd be nice if there were a way to help prevent auction abuse. I can't see anything though o.0 Lessening the amount of time in an auction perhaps... I hate those 20 day auctions. thats insane... But nice if I loose and forgot about it- then I magically have 20k back :D