chicken levels

[lostinalaska]

How long does it take chickens to go up another level? Seems like mine have been stuck on level 3 forever. Is it better to feed them blueberries or tomatoes, or does it matter?

[God Bless The Dead]

They wont go past level 3 unless you upgrade the housing to free range, then the max level is 10, and 4 tomatoes and 2 water fill the housing up best.

Chickens will lay 1 egg per level after Lvl 2 (7 eggs total).

[lostinalaska]

I upgraded the housing to free range before I put them in it.

[bubumic]

after upgrade, check the box for free range, they got to be free to lvl up

[lostinalaska]

Thank you. That was my mistake -- I didn't check the box. They're moving on up now.

[Mav]

That was my mistake, as well as others Ive seen here...when you upgrade to free range it should automatically enable it, or at least tell you in the description of the upgrade it needs to be enabled after upgraded...why pay for an upgrade when you wont use it?

[Neeco]

Originally posted by lostinalaska:

Thank you. That was my mistake -- I didn't check the box. They're moving on up now.

-To a deluxe apartment in the sky?

[Hanzo]

Not to hijack, but a couple things.

I'd like a reason to keep a chicken at level 10, maybe have them keep producing eggs? Dropping feathers?

I had a wolf by my chickens, he ignored them. That's not very realistic.

[mmille14]

Originally posted by hanzo581:

Not to hijack, but a couple things.

I'd like a reason to keep a chicken at level 10, maybe have them keep producing eggs? Dropping feathers?

I had a wolf by my chickens, he ignored them. That's not very realistic.

I like the idea of dropping feathers. Perhalps the drop rate increases as they approach old age and die.

[Zuleica]

Originally posted by hanzo581:

Not to hijack, but a couple things.

I'd like a reason to keep a chicken at level 10, maybe have them keep producing eggs? Dropping feathers?

I had a wolf by my chickens, he ignored them. That's not very realistic.

You have to use some imagination...the chickens ran back in to the coop when the wolf approached. Maybe one day the single dev can actually have the chickens return to the coop if a predator is nearby but that really isn't a priority since it doesn't affect gameplay.

As for the level 10 chickens laying eggs...they've reached menopause, they can't. Granted in RL that wouldn't happen in a few days but we all know that video game time is distorted from our RL experience...so, that's the way it goes for the sake of balance. Assuming a level 0 chicken is just a chick and chickens can go six months before laying eggs. That would translate 'realistically' to 180 game days before you see an egg. One ingame day is 30 minutes so that would translate to 90 hours of game play before you saw an egg. Granted after 90 hours you'd get an egg or two ever day for a very long time but still...just doesn't make good gameplay sense.

[Mav]

Originally posted by Zuleica:

Originally posted by hanzo581:

Not to hijack, but a couple things.

I'd like a reason to keep a chicken at level 10, maybe have them keep producing eggs? Dropping feathers?

I had a wolf by my chickens, he ignored them. That's not very realistic.

You have to use some imagination...the chickens ran back in to the coop when the wolf approached. Maybe one day the single dev can actually have the chickens return to the coop if a predator is nearby but that really isn't a priority since it doesn't affect gameplay.

We all know its a single dev, no need to keep stressing that fact.

And no need to try to tell people what the dev prioritizes and what he doesn't, that just leads to potential false information when in fact the dev might already have chickens being eaten by wolves in the works, you really have no idea what he has planned for the next update, or a few down the road, none of us do. Contrary to what your opinion is, wolves being able to eat chickens does affect gameplay, losing a bunch of high level chickens to a wolf would be a devastating loss food/water wise, and can completely change how players think when it comes to placing coops and raising chickens.