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Sheep Strategy

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Value Proposition

The sheep is a workhorse, an essential part of the Wolf Game ecosystem. Many community members compare sheep to crypto miners. At the core of it, Sheep are valuable because of their energy. However, how you spend your energy in the game will define your success. There are certainly smart ways to put your Sheeps to work, and the ever changing Wolf Game economy creates an environment where you need to be ready to pivot strategies if you want to play optimally at all times.

Understanding Energy

There are two types of energy - max energy and liquid energy. Each animal has a max energy level that they can recharge to, for Gen0 sheep the max energy is 1,000. The liquid energy increases and decreases depending on your in-game action.

The velocity at which you spend your energy plays a critical role in the amount of wool you earn in the game. Let’s look at a few examples of what this looks like:

(Based on real time market data from 8/24/23. This assumes a full 750 max-energy breed, 1 chop per day gathering rates with a 40% tax, and a chops to wool conversion of 1:20.)

A few observations from this chart:

  • Gen1 produces chops (breeding Gen2 sheep) at a slower rate than Gen0 because they can only breed 2 cycles before needing to recharge.
  • Breeding allows you to churn through energy at a much faster rate than gathering, and produce a lot more chops with that energy. And chops can be traded for wool when the time is right.
  • If you have 2 Gen0 sheep, you can gather with them for 6 months and earn 6,400 wool, or breed with them for 6 months and produce around 75,000 wool (assuming you burned the Gen2’s immediately without collecting first.
  • Gen2 sheep gather resources just as efficiently as Gen0/1.
  • This data doesn’t factor in the gathering power of all the Gen2 sheep you’ve been breeding. For example after breeding 10 Gen2 sheep, a flock can collect 180 wool per day after taxes.

A few key takeaways:

  • Gen 0+1 are intended for breeding, while Gen2 are intended for gathering.
  • Breeding opens up the game exponentially, as your flock grows.
  • Remember, Wolf Game is a living, breathing economy. As gathering rates increase or decrease on the farm, breeding can become even more or less attractive than it is in today's market.
  • The Farm is also designed for gathering rates to go down over time, which means breeding will become even more attractive from an ROI standpoint over time.

Gathering

Gathering is all about longevity and claiming on a sunny day. If you can gather in longer sprints, your earnings increase dramatically, this is due to the gathering rate multiplier. Each consecutive day a sheep gathers, it gathers faster. Learn more about the Farmers ability to significantly extend your gathering rates and productivity here.

Weather also effects your ability to maximize profits. Claiming on Sunny day will multiplier your resources another 1.2x on top of the daily gathering multiplier.

Breeding

By now you know the power of breeding. Let's cover a few the basics below.

Breeding Basics

  • Breeding is on a timer, the longer you can go into the breed, the more chops you will earn, but there's a energy ceiling of 750 for each breed.
  • Breeding is divided into 2 phases: Courting and Nurturing
  • At 50% complete (the start of the Nurturing phase) the Gen2 sheep is able to pulled from the barn and minted.
  • In the example below, my sheep would have a max energy of 612, if I pulled him from the barn. If i leave him inside the barn, I can keep growing the max energy.

Complete Breeding Strategy

For a complete breeding strategy guide, check out my Twitter thread below 👇

375 vs 750 Max Energy Breeding

Every breeder comes to a point in their process where they need to decide when to pull their Gen2 sheep. This topic has been a heated debate since the early days of Wolf Game. I've created a thread below to weigh the benefits of both models. Choose wisely, as your decisions around risk/reward will shape the overall trajectory of your game.

PLEASE NOTE: Thread was created before Peak Game details hit the market, so there are some things that I would nuance now, however the core framework and major talking points of this debate are still very relavent in this thread.

Breeding Data for the Win

Ovis Club provides breeding data and a host of other information that every breeder needs. This tool will help you understand when most wolves are attacking, when sheep are protecting, and help you optimize your strategy based on real Wolf Game data.

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