Feranix Feature - Hunting!
We’ve got a Feature treat for you guys today regarding our Hunting System. We all want lots of pretty cats, but with great prides come great responsibility. So, let’s get down into the nitty gritty of how feeding your cats will work.
While Hunting on Feranix will be easy to learn, you might find it challenging to master. Fine-tuning your hunting party and training its members will be of the utmost importance in order to have a successful hunt and bring food back to your den.
A Hunting Party on Feranix must consist of at least one male and one female. The hard cap on hunting party size is ten individuals. Only adult cats can hunt. Your cubs and adolescents will have to stay at home. The total stats combined of the males in your party (strength + speed + stamina) are your Party Defense. The total stats combined of the females in your party (strength + speed + stamina) are your Party Hunting Prowess. Party Defense is used to fight off scavengers while Party Hunting Prowess is used to catch and kill prey animals.
Successfully defending your hunting party from scavengers will give the males in your party a small boost to each of their stats. Successfully hunting an animal will give the females in your party a small boost to their stats. This is the best way to train up your young cats! Get them hunting early and often and you’ll have seasoned hunters in no time. Let’s look at two Party Structures:
Person A has four (4) cats (one male and three females) in their party. The male has 500 Total Stats going towards Defense and the females have 1200 Total Stats going towards Hunting Prowess.
Person B has seven (7) cats (two males and five females) in their party. The males have 200 Total Stats going towards Defense and the females have 800 Total Stats going towards Hunting Prowess.
While Person A has fewer cats in their party, they have a higher chance to ward off a scavenger attack or succeed in a hunt because their cats are more seasoned.
Each male and female in your pride will have 10 “Hunting Steps” per day. After organizing your Hunting Party, you will select from one of three Hunting Areas: Beginner, Medium, or Advanced. Be aware that any cat can enter any of the hunting areas. However, if you choose to enter an area with a hunting party that is too advanced for their skills, you may waste all of your hunting steps and have no meat to show for your effort and no stat increases to show for your hunters.
The Beginner Hunting Area is filled with small prey. Here, you will only encounter lone, weak scavengers. You can easily feed a small pride and train young cats in the Beginner Hunting area. Be warned! If you start expanding your pride with too many members before your cats are strong enough to reliably hunt in other areas, you may have trouble feeding that many inexperienced mouths.
The Intermediate Hunting Area is filled with medium-sized prey animals. Small bands of scavengers roam the Intermediate Area, adding to the risk of searching for the larger prey animals here.
The Advanced Hunting Area is filled with large prey animals, but vicious packs of dire wolves roam this area. Hunting here is a dangerous task and not for the faint of heart, but a good hunting party can bring home enough meat to feed their pride for days.
All new players on Feranix start out with their lead cat and two subcats: one female and one male. This means that you can start hunting in the Beginner Hunting Area on the very first day you login! A small tutorial will guide you through the hunting process the first time you attempt it.
Expanding your hunting party is as simple as breeding new cats into your pride, purchasing cats from other players, or selecting them from the as of yet unnamed “Adoption Area,” where unwanted (and site-generated) cats can be picked up for free.
Just remember: the more mouths you have to feed, the more meat they need! If you have lots of cats with low stats, you’ll find it almost impossible to feed them all while hunting in the Beginner Area. Sustaining a pride of roughly five cats is quite doable, but make sure you’re training your cats or they just won’t be experienced enough to properly feed themselves!
