Weirdness with Chicken food & qualities megathread.

[piopepik]

Nope it is just broken, chickens going down in quality , eating tons of food i can't see it efficient for now :\ Or if it is intended then good luck to you all chicken farmers

[Procne]

My friend commented on the quality issue:
"Q0 is the best isnt it? getting close"

[jorb]

Chickens should be eating just as much as they always did in Old Haven. I take it this is not the case?

[Hervarth]

Our chickens also eat loads and drop in q.

[Sarge]

My friend commented on the quality issue:
"Q0 is the best isnt it? getting close"

I lol'ed

[shubla]

Think the positive thing, soon you can have all yuour stuff q0

[Procne]

Yeah, that's the way the game is supposed to be played, so that only trully hardcore can manage it

[shubla]

Yeaa

[ubersheva]

As I noted in todays patch thread, the new inspect tool does not work on coop. Can it be that coops have ql0 which makes chickens drop in ql? Probably same problem is with the steelmaking thing.

[Jeff]

It happened to me as well, but given that i'm not the one actually managing the coops right now, i thought it was just due to the poor quality of the food given to them. Seems not to be the case.

I suppose the only place where grown chickens are ever supposed to change their quality is wherever they check if the quality of the food is below 10 in some category while they're eating, right?
If that's the case, either there is something wrong with the values supplied, or with the check itself.
I doubt it's the latter - that's essentially a bunch of if conditions and you'll already have checked them already - so maybe the foods are somehow having their quality dropped when putting them into the coop? I assume the coop takes the average quality of the foods that have been put in, so maybe that's the calculation where the issue lies?