Breeding Season


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Zuzu

8:12am May 1 2011

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THIS IS NOT A THREAD ABOUT CREATU BREEDING
(Or at least, not the type I know you are all thinking of)
 
So hear me out before you go flaming this thread and locking it.
 
In real life, some animals do reproduce year round. 
However, there there are also those that reproduce only during a set time of year, their breeding season(s).
 Sometimes breeding seasons are annual, sometimes they can happen two or more times each year, sometimes only once every couple of years.
 
So why not do this for some creatu, to determine what time of year you find their eggs? Just to you know, spice things up a little.
 
There could be creatu that lay eggs all year round, like usual, but others that will only lay eggs during their breeding season, and so you can only find that creatu's eggs during their breeding season. Different species could prefer different times of year for breeding, in summer, autumn, winter, or spring. And there could be others that like two seasons to breed in. The breeding seasons of some creatu could bee very long and others very short.
 
And this could raise the value of some creatu eggs, creating an easy way for merchants to make tu.
 
Lets do some examples!
 
Leverenes are rather like rabbits, yeah? Maybe they could breed like rabbits. The breeding season for most rabbits lasts 9 months, from February to October, taking a break during winter. So something similar could be done for the leverene, a long breeding season, but people could make money from their eggs during winter.
 
An intes' egg shell is rather thin and does not give much protection from the cold. therefor they may only lay their eggs in the middle of summer, around may, june and july, so that the embryo's inside the eggs stay nice and warm. The eggs can only be found for these few months and then users can sell them for a profit during the rest of the year.
 
 A female valabex spends all of summer fattening herself up to put a heap of energy into laying eggs in the winter. This long frozen period keeps the valabex eggs in stasis, and only when the sun shines on them and warms the shell do they know that it is time to hatch in the spring time when they have the best chances of surviving. Therefore you can only find Valabex eggs in the winter months, and they will be worth more for the rest of the year.
 
 During the spring months, the chimby gets very busy with creating as many young as possible. Then over summer they take a break in order to build back up thier condition. Then they have quick go at making a few more during autumn before winter sets in. This two time a year breeding pattern is a safty net of sorts incase one of the breeding seasons in unsucessfull due to enviromental circumstances. So, people can find chimby eggs during the months of spring and autumn, while their value goes up during winter and summer.
 
I know that this is probabaly too complicated to implement, and may get some users, especially new ones, confused. But it could also make finding and selling some creatu eggs a bit more interesting, as well as bringing a feel of realism to the game play. And it's just a fun ideai thought I'd share.
 
Note that when I am talking about months ad seasons here, I am going off the nothern hemisphere correlation, which appears to be the same as the  rescratu season month correlation, ie, christmas is in winter ect.
 
So do not flame or lock this thread because you think it is about making two creatu breed with each other, it is not, it is about when creatu lay their eggs.
 
 Additional suggestions/system changes are welcome.



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Shao

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So like seasonals you mean? O_O






Zuzu

8:18am May 1 2011

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Kinda like seasonals but not for only two weeks with only 48 hour searches only once a year. As in you can find the eggs like you normally would now during the breeding season, you just can't find them all of the year round.



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Aragarthiel

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I like this, but i'd suggest making them all hard to find year-round, then extremely common during that one season.  So, say, the Intes.  You'd like it during the summer.  Give it the rarity of a seasonal year-round, then bump it up to something like 20% during the summer.  That way Kir hunts aren't completely impossible.



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This sounds pretty cool- a good way to make Res more intersting. support. :)



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I like this idea. It would bring value back to the common creatu, but I'm not too sure if it could or would be implemented.
Anu

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sounds cool, you could also have pet migration, cold and hot blooded creatu, stuff like that which could change the pets location depending on heat. so weather could also effect all of it.



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Support! ;D



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Destrius

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Support as is.



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Haku

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Support, but like previously suggested, I think that they should still be available all year round, just harder in the time its "breeding season" is not in effect and easier when it is.




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Zuzu

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Wow guys, I didn't actually expect so much support, I actually expected a lot of arguing. So thanks. :D

And about the idea where they can still be found all year around, well that kinda defeats the purpose of the idea in the first place which it to raise egg prices. People are much less likely to buy eggs if they know they can just go out there and find them anytime they want, because even if they are rarer they can still get them for free and everyone in res is trying to conserve tu.

If people are smart and stock up on a lot of eggs during the breeding season, they should have enough to last them the rest of the time, as well as the fact that they can still buy them from merchants who have stocked up on eggs. Therefore Kir's quest will still be do-able, it's just that now merchants will be profiting from him too and not just ranchers.




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12:11am May 6 2011 (last edited on 12:12am May 6 2011)

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Very much support. It'd undoubtely help Ranchers out too. Everybody wins. :D



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Zuzu

5:33am May 6 2011

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Oh yeah, I hadn't realised that it would help ranchers out too, thats a good thing as well. Maybe it could even give naturals a little bit of value as well.



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6:32pm May 12 2011 (last edited on 6:34pm May 12 2011)

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Sounds like an interesting idea :P




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