Ack, Pinky & Scraps... Oh My

[JayEmm]

These 3 are all driving me crazy!

Scraps is a yapping irritating pup I thought would make good company for Pinky in a warm home with quiet company, but he just will not shut up or slow down. I want to send him back to Portia's folks who enjoyed him more than I can.
As for cute cuddly Pinky, she was (at first) a pleasure to have, for a while anyway. Now she just tags around my feet when I get up till I return home from venturing. She just won't stop meowing. Literally, every few seconds she does her cat calls have me turning down my Audio Background settings to near zero. She's so much quieter when she's roaming the Portia's streets, but when she comes home at night and all I want is some quiet time with Aadit it's impossible to enjoy the game with Scraps and PInky vocalizing back and forth all night long.

Can the Devs please make pet tags we can give them (the way we can give a gift of divorce) to release ownership of our pets, please?

As for Ack... if I could get into his upgraded circuits I'd have most of them turned off or removed again. He is so irritating, not just because he comes to your workshop throughout the day but the way he does his chores. He gathers the animal products ok, but he doesn't feed them. He needs something working List of Chores where I can give him specifically things I want him to do, what to feed them and how much of what food I want him to do first thing each morning. He should be programmable to harvest not only what I want (vegetables, crafting items, trees) all to my choosing or left alone. He just plows in and does everything the way he wants and when he wants. As for the vegetables, when I tell him to re-seed he never does. I want him to have a more comprehensive list of Do's & Don't and be able to turn things On or Off when I choose. I'd like to see his Upgrades List implemented so that the list of traits you give him after you 'Activate' them can also be 'Un-Activated' when desired. If we could put them in we should be able to take them back out again, or give us the option to turn them On & Off as we wish, the same as we do with our crafting machines. He is a machine himself after all. And, he should cook what we want when we want them since I gave him upgrades for that too.

Other than these 3 things I really do love the game and hope to see the game grow and flourish with many more stories and expansions to make My Time At Portia even better.

[worstcase11]

First of all there are 'Abandon Tags' for Pinky and Scraps the mystery Merchant sells them. I can't get behind abandoning pets though.
Maybe try just buying them a few toys and a catbed/doghouse to keep them occupied instead. - I never had it that they follow me the entire day.

I never had a problem with Ack's way to work. - Stuff gets done - good enough.

[Halcyon Eve]

Are you actually giving him seeds via the farming option in his menu, or just leaving them in the helper storage? I'm not sure if the latter works. I usually set him to only do farm-related tasks, ie picking up animal drops, harvesting, and planting (but not feeding animals). I've found that while he may not do it all at once or immediately, if I just chill out a little, he does get the job done. Often when I go to bed, the seeds aren't planted, but they will be when I wake up. Good ol' Ack, working through the night. XD

[RAD-82]

Feeding animals by helper is a problem. They only feed the animals when the food is completely gone.

Since the shed holds 12 animals and 50 food, 10 animals go without food on the 5th day and you don't get their goods or they don't grow if they are still maturing.

I'm fine with them not adding food everyday, but if there isn't enough food for all of the animals, then they should add more food before the animals start starving on the next day, not when the feeding trough is empty.

[grinsekeatzchen]

I'd appreciate it if Ack could be handled better. At least you pay him, so why can't you decide better what you want?
Meanwhile he only collects animals and plants. Since I have the factory and he does not collect what I understand there everything comes into one pure.
But the planting e.g. I find cumbersome. I wish one could put the seeds directly into the helper and he would also put them directly into it or keep them when he collects plants.
And yes, that animals feed xx. I gave up long ago ... would be great if he would fill it every day ...