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I understand that skill nerfs suck, but I believe POF was way too strong. Tree seed prices have crashed to 10% of their old value, and the resources required to feed animals hardly went up in price to balance it out (besides mushrooms).
Increased food cost is good. It makes it so people need to decide if they should grow animals or grow trees and other crops. Right now there is no balance; the obvious choice is to do POF.
Breeding in pen rate nerf is good. It makes it so people need to add some variability to their farm to make sure they're producing enough animals. It also may slightly increase demand for baby animals which should make pof production slightly more profitable for players.
The health and happiness requirement is essential. Being able to get full xp and full growth rates from animals that are sick is broken. Other farming methods have plants die, and it seems weird for animals to have no similar punishment. This is an important change.
I'm sure jagex will balance this carefully, and there may be changes to the exact plan. I'm glad it is being addressed.
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