[ADDED!] Multiple party hunting suggestion

Full support! And I totally agree with what sneep said, I think having 2 hunting parties at maybe 30 to 40 wolves would be helpful without completely breaking the balance. I have so many hunters and it's so hard to get them all out within a day.

I want to again stress that GC should not be a part of this at all. There are plenty of GC sinks around already, locking it behind anything GC-related just feels like gatekeeping a quality of life addition to the game, and let's be clear that it would be a MAJOR quality of life addition.

EDIT: The game is not going to be hurting for paying customers when there are people willingly forking over 30+ GC to regularly swap out their Studs and Leads, or just purchasing marking applicators/removers for bases that can't be accessed via the customizer.

100% support! I think the extra hunting parties you can send out unlocking as you increas territory size is absolutely fair and makes the most sense

Love this and support. I love the RP aspect of hunting parties but find myself just cycling between two to keep my wolves fed. It would be great to have reason to form and use them.

100% support this. I personally struggle to max more than two hunting parties per day and would love to be able to use a third party.

100% support, I think it makes sense for larger packs to have multiple hunt groups. I can't always access wolvden, so sometimes I lose out on food as I'm not able to hunt as much. I still have decent sized pack though and they end up suffering for it. 

Copy and pasting my suggestion thread because it was locked as a dupe. I support multiple hunts but not linked to den slots. We should just be able to use all of our hunting parties, period. It’s pointless to have more then 1 hunting part at a time due to the low catch rate and slow training they take to even catch piddly game. 

My den is like 20 wolves and they’re always starving or I have to constantly buy food because I can’t catch any, it’s really frustrating.

— v copy paste below 

So I was wondering how possible would it be to allow us to go on multiple hunts?

For example, I have 3 hunting parties and they can only hunt 1 at a time every 30 min. I'll never be able to use up all my hunts without being on literally all day and that's just not realistic. Plus 90% of the time they never catch anything so it's just a waste of time regardless. I feel like multiple hunts would allow us to bring in more food for our starving wolves and utilize our hunting parties better. Either that or maybe raise the chance of actually catching something or raise the rate at which wolves gain hunting skills because I can't ever seem to get anything and it's just boring honestly. ;; 

@essie the reason i'd like it linked to den slots is because oftentimes what happens is larger packs cannot hunt enough food to sustain themselves so they buy it from smaller packs who don't use all of the food they get (once your hunters' proficiency is good, you catch stuff pretty consistently). I don't think its fair that people who gained pack slots by paying currency should have to, by the design of the game, pay for food from others. We should be able to have self-sustainable packs regardless of pack size, otherwise such large packs shouldn't be able to exist in the game. While I sympathize with having trouble catching stuff, especially when your hunting synergy is low, if small packs had access to the same amount of hunting patrols as large packs, they would flood the market with extra food and take away the challenge of providing and hunting for your own pack, because if food was, for example 1SC per use, people would just pay for food instead of hunting it themselves, undermining a huge survival aspect of the game.

Ultimately, i support this suggestion not to make things "easier" for big packs, because I like the realistic struggle to provide food, but because i DON'T like that for large packs, that struggle isn't realistic— a pack of 30 wolves would not rely on only five wolves to hunt at a time. I personally can't say I found the game unnecessarily difficult when i started out, and i did start with NBWs as my hunters, but i think a suggestion to make hunting easier in general would be a different suggestion topic. I know your original topic was locked as a dupe but that's probably because you went with the route of multiple hunting parties. I think if you stick to the latter part of your suggestion— raising the chance of catching, that would more directly address your concerns with hunting being difficult in general and also not conflict with this suggestion. I hope all that makes sense!

I support this! I also agree with what a lot of others here have said: that the next slot should open up at 25 or 30 wolves instead of at 50. Everyone's pretty much already summed up why I support this suggestion.

I support this fully. I have a pretty large pack for R&C breeding purposes and if I miss a day of full hunting it can make it hard to keep up on food. My pack size is usually always fluctuating depending on how many pups I have that are R&C worthy. I definitely agree with it unlocking at larger den sizes. Smaller dens can get a lot of food with proficient hunters in an easy biome. I live in an easy biome and it's a struggle to support my R&Cs sometimes.

I don't believe it should be locked behind any form of payment. There are already gc and sc sinks in the game and people are already willing to pump into those to customize their wolves. Plus, people usually grind for awhile to get enough sc to have such large packs so they've already spent a lot of time and game currency into getting so large. It would be nice to have more features to support large packs!