Why is there a limit to Chooks?

[X]

I just hit 304 chooks but I still have food, water and happiness and could still have for quite a while longer, so why limit it?

[shower speedrunner]

The game engine wont be stable if you go higher than that.
Wait for the next update.

[Chicken Breast Enthusiast]

Personally i have no idea if there is an actual limit to how many Chooks you can possess, but then again on a second note it would be a bit exaggerated to have too many Chooks as well.

[kopiC]

You can try getting 300 gold chooks. Got my 300th gold chook yesterday. Chooks will sleep in coop during day if there are too many outside.
Free range chicken are more humane due to spaciousness of their living environment. Let's not go in the direction of cramming too many chooks in limited space :-/

[SourceUnknown]

how does anyone have over 300 chooks in that tiny little space you get?

[kutik]

The home of the chooks you need to level up or buy more houses

[Vitamin Ex]

You can only place a max of 200 objects on the farm. So in theory, you can only have a set number of happiness. If you have too many Chooks and it puts you in the negative happiness, Chooks will leave. So even if there was no limit, there is still a limit sorta, if that makes sense.

[SourceUnknown]

Originally posted by kutikstely:

The home of the chooks you need to level up or buy more houses

Yeah, just figured it out.....this is a great little game.

[X]

There's plenty of space as it is a game and not real life. You also don't have pools and what not in real life for chickens so that's not really a valid point and then again as Vitamin and I myself thought that's why I don't get the 304 limit. You have limited space and resources, so eventually it would limit itself. That's the reason of my question.
And yeah I know you can get all golden chicken but I find it better in numbers than necessarily their quality. I like having a few of each. I just wanted to see more chooks around, I like to see tons of them all together running around, that's all.
I'll just wait for another update and if there isn't then it's game over,xP

[Ragical]

Hey everyone! Super new dev overwhelmed by how much people love these chooks reporting in.

Cheek has limits like this mainly to make sure the game is stable and not going to get super laggy or take up too much memory.
Thats not to say Cheeky is intensive, we have in fact had very little complaints and lots of people reporting its running very well. As first time devs with no budget testing was a very limited group, so these reports have led us to up building counts and we are looking at upping the chook count as well.

Last thing we want is to stifle creativity or progression, but what would be worse is if we had no cap and suddenly you couldnt open your farm again.

Slowly slowly. But we do have big plans, and I can say if we wanted we 'could' get into the thousands, its in no way off the cards just needs to be considered, tested etc.. But we are also super new, so give us a little time.
I think we are going to surprise people if given the chance, as to where we would take this game.

If you want to keep in the loop, strongly suggest jumping in our discord, it's friendly and a lot of stuff like this is being discussed. :)

[X]

Thanks for the reply. I understand that and I really appreciated the time and effort to explain the reason behind it. I'll certainly keep up with the news and see what you guys do next :)
Be it updates or new games.

I may join the discord later :)

[Mr. Fibble]

Given the amount of space available for the farm too many would start towards the more intensive battery farming methods which might not go across too well given the co publisher is the RSPCA.