Will there ever be a collect all pet income feature? I don't have many pets currently so it's not a super big hassle to have to do them one at a time, but it'd be nice to be able to do them all at once.
I have over 60 pets with jobs, so I see how this would be useful, but... hrm. Something's putting me off and I can't put my finger on it. ._. On one hand, it feels like it would be too easy. Basically: push button, get sP. But on the other hand, it's way less server stress, way less stress on your device, and you already have to train and read to your pets to get them hired & promoted, especially for the jobs that pay better.
Maybe it could be added as a GA option?
I'm with you Frost. I too have over 60 pets but it does seem to easy to do them all with one click. I currently have bookmarks for all of them but I do tend to open 20-30 in one go ^^; I know, I'm bad and it's probs not go for the servers but I couldn't cope if I had to do them individually. Most days I don't remember any way ^^;
Might there be some inbetween? Like if we could create a group of pet, no more than say 10, and then have a click for that? It wouldn't be so click easy as we would end up with several groups. Plus we would have to make the groups ourselves so it would entail some work on the users part.
I only have a few pets, but they all have jobs. I don't see a problem with a collect all paychecks button. As has been pointed out already, you do need to track, train and promote pets individually, so its still a fair amount of work to maximize pet earnings even with a collect all button.
If you don't do that extra work and just put your pets in entry level jobs, the collect all isn't going to be collecting much, so I don't see it as a big deal.
Personally, I have an addon that allows me to select multiple links all at once. I use that, then close all tabs to the right with FF. Other than the initial setup of downloading the app, its already nearly as easy as a collect all.
Though a collect all button wouldn't alleviate server strain, because each pet needs to be processed anyway to see if there are stat gains. So when reporting income, you'd also want to report any stat gains.
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Right now when you collect income there is a chance the pet will gain a stat. If there is a collect all option, someone new might not be aware of that unless the option is still able to make sure each employed pet gets the same chance.
Having a "collect all" button would also reduce the stress of second-guessing if you really did collect all your pets' incomes or if you might have skipped over one or two.
I only have <20 pets right now so it isn't difficult, but back when I had 50+ it was all too easy to accidentally skip a row. Usually I caught it, but then I began wondering if I had skipped another row and hadn't caught it... The general result being that I'd avoid collecting incomes on most days because it was just too stressful, which outweighed the benefit.
Pets don't earn much; even the top tier gets only 30k a day, and it takes a lot of effort (and time and sP) to get your pet the required stats to be able to earn that much. I don't think having an "instant earn" button for incomes would flood the market or anything like that.
The random stat boosts become trickier, but then maybe that could be the incentive for collecting them individually? If you wanted the stat boosts, you'd have to collect them one by one. If you didn't care, hit the "collect all" button. Maybe even just collect a few individually and then hit the "collect all" button to get the rest, if you wanted to target certain pets.
Right now, we have no plans to do a 'collect all pet income' feature. and I are discussing maybe doing this down the line, mostly we'd have to figure out the stat feature. :)
you could just make it that the user is admitting that their pets are doing a half-assed job just for the paycheck if they use "collect all" instead of coming in and getting their paycheck personally to get feedback from NPC Jobagen Cyboss. That way you don't need to do anything at all.