I've suggested this at least once before but the thread is long-since buried, and once again I find myself having to sit around on my hands and wait for a hatchling to reach adolescence to set it up for sales or to fix a mistake in the name...

Once again, I suggest letting players use philters on hatchlings. The wait is horribly long and often leads to forgotten agendas.


Misspell part of a hatchling's name? There's a philter of amnesia for that, but in the week of waiting for the pet to reach adolescence, the owner will likely forget.

Need to sell a pet but not let it breed? There's a philter of infertility for that, but the buyer will have to wait an extra week before they can obtain the pet they want since the hatchlings can't be made infertile.

Project pet born with a wrong color? There are pet dyes for that! But the player will have to wait a week until it turns adolescent to use it, and they'll likely forget about the color mistake entirely and breed the wrong color once the pet reaches adulthood. Now they'll need multiple pet dyes to fix the first pet, and all of the pet's offspring.

Hatch a themed pet with horrible traits and want to change them? There's a philter of trait disruption for that! But again, we have to wait a week for the pet to turn adolescent... In the meantime there are plenty of trades going around, but of course there's no telling what the philter may do for the pet. To keep in the hopes of a better result later or to trade for something else? (Oh the missed opportunities...)

Find an egg and already know what trait you want to add to it when it hatches? Here's a Greater Genetic Mutator! But again, 1-week wait to use it.



The only philter-type that may give an advantage is the Magical Pie; the rest all seem practical for use on hatchlings. Especially for those who are forgetful or impatient, or those who go through hundreds of hatchlings at a time and can't remember what it takes to fix every single mistake after having to wait a week just to do anything about it...




Secondary suggestion:

For giving pets stats philters when they hatch... can we pre-set the philter to be used? I've gone through dozens of eggs that I was supposed to remember to philter, totally forgot to use the philter when it hatched since I had a multiple pages of eggs to hatch, and then it was too late and there was no going back to fix it. 7-day breeding cooldown wasted due to a forgotten Prismatic Philter...

At one point I was so desperate that I started to name my pets "Philter," and I stood no chance of gathering enough Amnesia Philters for all of them!

https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=1651155
https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=1649601
https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=1608307
https://www.sylestia.com/view/pets/?petid=1608305

I'd much rather apply the philters ahead of time... even if the effect doesn't take until the pet hatches.

100% support for both of these suggestions. I can't count the number of times I've wanted to do something philter-related to a hatchie, then totally forgotten, and it's months later when I'm hatching babies with the wrong traits (because a project baby was named wrong), that I remember that I needed to amnesia the parent... and now I have half a dozen babies I can't use >.< And with the philter of infertility.... having to wait that whole week.... I'm terrible for remembering that I have project babies for people to begin with. Waiting that long to infertilise them.... I have tabs upon tabs open just to keep 'tabs' on those that need to be handed out a week later, rather than at hatching!

Please! Please! Please~~~~~ Make philtering hatchlings possible!!!!

Support!

Although I can kind of understand why you wouldn't want to make pies usable on hatchlings, I see no reason why it couldn't be set so that hatchlings can't eat pies since stat philters are excluded based on age as well.