New work suitability: Egg Handling, respective pals and new keybind

[Regiz]

Picking up and setting eggs is the most tedious and boring part of the game, so there should be a way to automate the process. I propose a new skill named something like 'Egg Handling' that has pals move eggs from Breeding Farms to Egg Incubators. There will be a timer for pals to pick up eggs, the pals will use their transport speed to move the eggs and there will be another timer for setting the eggs in an incubator. Egg Handling could be added to the Pal Labor Research Laboratory to give bonuses to Egg Handling and how fast eggs are produced.

A marsupial-themed pal, like a big wombat, could have a high egg handling rating and give a slight bonus to how fast Breeding Farms produce eggs. Another great pal would be a flying pelican-themed pal that has watering and egg handling. Egg handling could be added to existing pals with not many work suitabilities, like Grintale, to make them more viable work pals. Also, Flambelle's partner skill should be changed to something that slightly increases the Egg Hatching Speed. Kelpsea Ignis already has the same partner skill and is more viable because you can breed them using regular Kelpseas.

Yes, there is the Large-Scale Electric Incubator, but it's at the BOTTOM of the tech tree and will probably continue to be at the bottom for each update... Egg handling should work with those as well, which will make them even better.

Another thing that is boring and tedious is HOLDING F to hatch eggs, craft things or open certain loot containers; and what, is Pocketpair trying to give people carpal tunnel? I think there should be a new keybind called 'Hover Activate'. Instead going up to each egg incubator and pressing / holding F to finish the incubation, you can hold down the Hover Activate and just look at each egg incubator to finish the incubation process. Pressing the Hover Activate button once while initiating crafting or opening loot container will keep you character crafting / opening without having to do anything else.

[funewchie]

Yeah, but they can't account for the correct temperatures of the eggs.
Needing to build campfires (or using heaters/coolers), they can't handle that.

[Regiz]

Originally posted by funewchie:

Yeah, but they can't account for the correct temperatures of the eggs.
Needing to build campfires (or using heaters/coolers), they can't handle that.

When the hell did I say anything about that? Work pals are supposed to do all the tedious tasks for you. Picking up and setting eggs are the most tedious parts. On that note, the single Electric Egg Incubators costs way too much and should cost only 40 Refined Ingots, 10 circuit boards, 5 Ancient Civilization Parts and 1 Ancient Civilization Core. 5 Ancient Civilization Cores for ONE electric incubator is crazy...