So I know the current setup of getting scales (nurturing) is to allow players the freedom of playing however long they want at a certain activity, and then the low rate at which scales are given out for this activity is to balance the scales economy.

However, I feel like there also should be an additional way of gathering scales, that takes less time for a decent payout (for those of us who maybe don't have the hours--or, lol, patience--to spend clicking hatchery pets). My suggestion is to make a kind of daily quest or task that gives out a bunch of scales, say 100, each day the task is complete.

Maybe this task can be tied to one of the Lost Grove buildings, but I feel it should be more easily accessible to new players. Probably the easiest would be just to give out 100 scales for the first 50 nurtures of the day, but I feel that's a little boring. Maybe instead it can be related to the pet overpopulation problem--like release a certain amount of pets, get scales, or if something like a more accessible pet auction system becomes available, scales can be given out for helping with that. Maybe, too, a Foster a Pet system, aka, a coded in way to train someone else's pet up without that player having to trade it to you, and you are paid in scales.

Just some ideas!