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A cap on female/male breedings per season?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 7:51:38 am
by HopefulMonster
Ok, to reflect actual real life animal breeding, I'd kind of like to put a cap on how many times a single male or female can produce viable eggs per season. Basically, a female can Breed x number of times per season, and same with the males. This would NOT affect the ability to get clutchmates, two handlers could still get an egg each for their breedings. But it's meant to simulate not exhausting a female, producing tons of eggs, or a male, exhausting his....assets....trying to make babies.

So I wanted to ask all of you. Thoughts? What would be a fair number, without being too restrictive? Two breedings per female, maybe three per male? You'd still have their set number of breedings total, it would just mean you could only breed the same Wyrm a couple of times in the single season, then have to wait until next season to breed them again.

Chime in all, lemme know what you think! :3

Re: A cap on female/male breedings per season?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:58:24 am
by Arazia
My first thought would be to not make there be a difference in the limit between males/females. Just because I wouldn't want to see a person being more/less limited during a breeding season just because they happened to randomly get a female Wyrm rather than a male.

My second thought, is to make it no lower than three per season. With three, a person can still feel that they can get 1-2 breedings for themselves, as well as have an additional one open to offer out to other people. My concern is that setting it too low will discourage people from letting others get breedings. This also is more of a limitation for those who have fewer Wyrms, as they have less of a chance to get/give breedings.

Now, I think for most people a breeding limit probably won't effect them. For me, as I'm one of those people who tend to offer up my Wyrms so others can get babies, I know I'll probably run into it sooner than most others. For instance, I already have two people interested in getting babies from Chompy for the Fall Season.

P.S. This also may be something that should go on a public post on Deviantart/Furaffinity, since they get more traffic.

Re: A cap on female/male breedings per season?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:29:08 am
by Leurai
3 breedings per season sounds reasonable to me. ...Yeah, I like everything Arazia suggested. :)