Adoption Board

## How It Works

The Adoption Board is a feature that was included during pre-alpha launch of the game. It is a board which shows adoption listings from non-player characters in the game. You can read through their wants and needs for a new pet dog and then try to fulfill these desires by adopting out one of your matching dogs to them in exchange for in-game currency.

The NPCs have wants and needs on each listing. Their needs are non-negotiable and they will not accept dogs that do not meet their needs. Their needs are listed on the lefthand side of the Adoption Board next to their image. Their wants are hidden within their listing and describe various other attributes they would like their new dog to have. Each adopter has three wants listed within their listing. Wants are optional, but meeting them will get you more in-game currency for a successful adoption. Wants are not pass-fail. An adopter who wants a certain breed will usually give you partial credit if the dog you offer is in the same group as that breed.

When you offer your dog, depending on how well they fulfill the adopter's wants, they will be called *"an acceptable match"*, *"a decent match"*, "*a very good match*", "*an excellent match"*, or "*a perfect match*".

Every adoption raises your "dogs rehomed" count on your profile.  There are awards for reaching certain milestones.

When you adopt out to someone else's listing using a referral link, they get 10% of the reward money.  You get the other 90% and the dogs rehomed credit on your profile. If you aren't going to adopt out to a listing yourself, sharing it via a referral link is potentially free money. You should only share the referral link to an adoption listing if you aren't plan to fulfill the adopter's request yourself. You can generate a referral link by clicking on the "Link" button under the listing you want to refer someone to and then you can copy the URL to share with others.

Some listings are easier than others and some breeds have a stronger tendency to suit certain listings than others, so it may be worthwhile to keep note of which ones are easy for you to fulfill and ask other players for more referral links similar to your tendencies.

You can also "save" adoption listings for later that you are working on completing by clicking on the "Save" button on the Adoption Board. At the start of each day, the new listings you get will be reduced by the number you have saved. Unsaving a listing removes it immediately, even if it's less than a day old.

Once a dog is adopted out, it is removed from your kennel, you are paid, and the dog moves onto their new life with the NPC.

The Adoption Board has many randomized aspects to each listing, making each one unique and sometimes, NPCs can state very bizarre things due to the ad lib style of randomization. However, there are a wide variety of adopter types to pick from, so you can choose the future for your adopted out dog - whether that be a therapy dog or a thief's righthand man.

## Awards

There are four awards available for completing Adoption Board listings. These awards add medals to your kennel profile so, you can show off! These medals are awarded once you fulfill a certain amount of adoptions. The amounts are 50, 100, 200, and 1000 successful adoptions. You can see how close you are to completing these goals by looking at your "Kennels" page and reading how many dogs you have rehomed so far.