That sounds like a great idea! Mainly since I'm about to lose my first traveling wolf
But I think you should do a option where you can either let people breed your traveling wolf or not since there are some people that allow it! Though still would be a great feature!
I've only hosted a traveling wolf a time or two and never created one. I think the proposed rules sound pretty good and when they are in place I may actually decide to create one of my own. I particularly love that the wolf won't be able to have décor removed.
I don't think there should be a restriction on someone being able to recall a wolf. With one click the feature for an original owner to recall a wolf solves the problem of :
*Wolves not being cared for by the host.
*Hosts who go offline.
*Owner wants to go on Hiatus.
This is a great idea! I really appreciate you guys announcing this before implementing the feature since it'll help reassure players that there's solutions for this issue in development. It's also going to make it easier for people to bring up any addtional points or queries about the feature that can be worked on in development before it's finished and harder to implement.
I have a number of questions that I wanted to ask:
Will you need to have bred the wolf to be allowed to make it a travelling wolf?
If you don't need to have bred the wolf, could you theoretically change the host? Ex, user A is planning to go inactive but wants their wolf to keep travelling. They remove the traveller role, gift the wolf to user b, and user b makes the wolf a traveller again and has the same recall options.
How will decors work? It's customary to give a decor to a travelling wolf but as is pointed out in the issues paragraph, users could take off & steal decors. Decors should Ideally still be able to be added and moved up & down (to make the decors look nice), but not removed by anyone except the original owner.
The user who placed the decor should be able to take off their own decor too in case they make a mistake or want to change it, but they could also send the wolf back to the owner with the new decor for an edit so I don't see this as necessary.
How will bios work? Same deal where people usually add some writing to the wolf to say what happened while they were in their pack.
Maybe if there's a seperate section planned to show where they've been, they can have part to it for comments and decors added? That way people can add stuff and have it all be shown in the one place!
Another point though is that if the user removes the travelling wolf role, will this section still be visible? What about when the wolf goes into the dynasty?
Some users allow their travelling wolves to breed and have it as part of their lore. Would it be possible to have the breedig feature be toggleable?
It doesn't seem like a good thing that the owner has to manually recall a wolf to avoid them running away. What if they weren't online as often as the user holding them? Maybe they could auto-return when they reach the running requirements?
An auto-return after a certain number of ROs on the holders account would be nice too for users who aren'r rolling frequently.
Will travelling wolves be able to get sick and die from a lethal illness?
Will there be an age limit? Some users let pups go on adventures (my traveller was an adol!), will they be able to be trained or apprenticed?
I had a bad experience with my travelling wolf that lead me to stop sending them out. With these changes I would love to start using them again and would definitely use the feature!
