IDEAS FOR RYZOM

I guess I know the situation on Arispotle somewhat better than you think as I have toons there as well as on Aniro. I agree that the shortage is felt harder with the larger population, and I do not know whether or not there are technical reasons to keep the three shards identical. If not, an adjustment according to the rate of usage would make sense.

I doubt, though, that such an adjustment, even if it would not mean reducing cat production on Leanon accordingly, would suffice to dampen the complaints. The problem I see is that roughly 9 mths ago, with patch 1.12, the devs not only throttled cat production of the outposts, but simultaneously offered a new path of obtaining cats, open to everybody, thus linearly scaling with server population. Same goes, btw., with other methods of buying cats by faction points, at least for qualities 50 and 100, and to some extent 150. And a transient population mainly comprising of free to play accounts does not need the higher qualities so dearly or even doesn't need them at all.

As long as any solution other than raising op output is met with anything from flat refusal over mockery to outright astonishment about the exotic habit of using what the devs have implemented, I fail to see a real shortage of cats, rather a shortage of cats for free. My question about what effort would be considered adequate in return for a stack of cats of given quality remains unanswered.

Btw., I agree to Bittymacod that a more flexible drill configuration would be a good thing, as probably are more active outposts of lower levels. This is independant from production rate considerations.