Jungle Cat Skins (THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE WEIGHT AGAIN)

[SN]

A bit selfish suggestion:


Add a property to the cat-skin, which upon using, will destroy it.
(Single use Virtue or something similar)

Representing burying the cat/burning its corpse, so the cat-hunters could not profit from it.

Why? Because there's at least several PC's on the server plaing, who would actually do it.

A minor thing, and I think, easily scriptable.

[Egon the Monkey]

It already, bizarrely has a single use power, unless that was changed. That did absolutely nothing, but could just be scripted to destroy it.

Also, I agree. My nature-oriented PCs who were against cat hunting always emoted slashing the body over in a few places to destroy the worth of the pelt or something. Taking and dumping them was feasible with 0.5lb skins, but not with the new ones.

[Winston Martin]

If the animal is dead does it matter what happened to its skin? You have failed as nature guard.

[Drakill Tannan]

Not completly. If the hunters take the pelt they will be back for more, if the pelt is ruines, less likely they will.

[SN]

If the animal is dead does it matter what happened to its skin? You have failed as nature guard.

That's a weird remark IMHO. For that I would need XXI-st century radar, each of the cats on the island having a trace implant, and possibly a teleportation device whenever one of the green dots on the radar turns red when attacked, to be exactly at each spot.

And yes, it most definitely matters what happens to the skin in the eyes of some people. Some would prefer it burned, or buried, instead of being used as a carpet, y'know.

[Porkolt]

Break out the shovels, gents.

[Winston Martin]

Your sniveling inadequacy sickens me Starless Night.

[Random_White_Guy]

There are trash pits everywhere.

Dump them in there after emoting [Buries in pit]

[scribjellydonut]

If the animal is dead does it matter what happened to its skin? You have failed as nature guard.

It most certainly does.  The less pelts that are available, the less catskin people wear, the less other people see, the less everyone wants anything made of catskin, the less cats that are killed.
 
[smack] You coulda had a V8

[Oskar Maxon]

The less pelts available from already dead cats, the more people will hunt to get their cat-pelts. >_>

[scribjellydonut]

The less pelts available from already dead cats, the more people will hunt to get their cat-pelts. >_>

Good point... So I guess now you have two variables you would have to run some sort of model to see which one has a larger effect on cat deaths heh

[Porkolt]

That's a good idea.
 
I think that's actually doable if I can get a statistic on the average amount of pelts turned in every day, combined with an average percentage of pelts that is retrieved from already-dead cats.
 
GET ME THOSE STATISTICS AND I -WILL- MAKE THAT GRAPH.

[SN]

The less pelts available from already dead cats, the more people will hunt to get their cat-pelts. >_>

Disagreed! Half of the folk 'hunting' cats are in fact scavengers, and the cats arent THAT easy to kill. Or at LEAST will cost people supplies.

As for the trash pits.... I know there are a few in the Zig... and in the Trog cave. Anywhere else? Oo

And Winston dood. The result of my sniveling adequacy was making this post to be less sniveling, and more adequate.

[N/A]

Rampant cat hunter FD spree.

[Damien]

wait wait, why would a druid skin a cat after its found dead?