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RE: How Many Cats Did You Breed To Get Your Royal?
Yes, it's an incorrect conclusion.
A plan helps.
Charm keeps her cats in the Cattery. In preparation for the event, a few days ahead of time, she ceased pairing them and ceased sending ones she no longer needed to the Menagerie. This prevented box production and gave her a large number of cats ready-to-go.
When the time came, she selected a few pairs, and brought them in-world. Boy, then girl, mate them, move to the next pair. Wait until either a winner appeared, or all had produced non-winners. Send everything back to the Cattery. Rinse and repeat.
We kept an ALT standing next to her with a Local Chat open to it (we like Local Chat to transfer inventory because it's an easy target to hit, especially when you're in a hurry). When a winner appeared, she passed the girls to the ALT as quickly as possible to prevent additional box production. Then, the boys. She passed the cats from her Dock to the ALT as she brought them in world, careful to never have a male and a female owned by her at the same time, again, to prevent box production.
When the winner appeared, the ALT passed the girls to her, again, preventing box production, and then boys to the next ALT, when it was logged in before she started passing the girls to that new ALT.
At the time of the event, Charm had about 50 pairs segregated and ready. This allowed us to exhaust our supply of ALTs long before we ran out of pairs.
The only hiccup we ran in to was food. Some of the cats needed to eat. For that, the ALT put the cats on the ground and then hand-changed their group to our private group. Charm laid out another food bowl, set it to our group, then set it to feed Group instead of My Cats, so the ALT did not need to purchase food. This means there was a risk that a box might want to appear, but fail, because of being in the wrong group; but that is easily manageable, actually only a very small risk, and the cats will recover from it when we set them back to the normal land group once they had low enough hunger.
We've found an added benefit of evens such as this is it "syncs" your cats. For the next few weeks, Charm's work is made much easier because the cats are all, generally, on the same sleep and hunger cycles, and there tends to be a Boxes Day!!! followed by a long lull until the next, so she has plenty of time to thing and plan and can take some time off.
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How Many Cats Did You Breed To Get Your Royal?
