I think they meant once an egg or hatchling grows in your keep. So it's not whether you yourself did the last click, but rather once the creature grows you get a small sum.froglady wrote: ↑October 4th, 2023, 4:04:49 pm I feel like if you get a gold bonus for hatching your egg or growing your hatchling to adult people will hide their eggs/hatchlings so as to get the last click, whereas if you get the gold bonus for hatching or growing another player's egg/hatchling it will foster more clicks for everyone and more activity on the site in general.
Example would be each time an egg hatches in your keep, you earn 5 gold. Each time your hatchling grows to an adult, you earn 10 gold. So it wouldn't matter who clicked it. It's just tied to when the stage bar hits 100.
Since the eggs are limited to 5 (aside from donations) then I think this could work out.
To expand this idea, you could tie how much gold you earn to the rarity of the creature. So hatching a very common egg would get you, say 3 gold. A common egg maybe 5 gold, uncommon 7 gold, and a rare egg would be 10 gold.
From there, you just double the amount earned once the creature becomes an adult. So 6 gold, 10, 14, and 20.
So between the egg limit and the programmed rarity, there's natural checks in place to where players earn gold off basic activities/mechanics without being able to go crazy with it.
And it doesn't have to be those amounts of gold. It's whatever the devs feel is appropriate. I also don't know if donation pets should earn gold. I feel like there may be a risk there of abuse since people can technically buy however many donation pets they feel like spending money on at any given time. But that's just my thought. I could be wrong there.