Should matured creatures be able to breed?

shinyshiny • 28 April 2012 at 12:38 AM

I was wondering, why don't matured creatures, (over level 2,000, and have reached the last stage) why don't they breed?
I know it would cause retired creatures to come back, but then we could have more retired creatures around than now.

Just an idea, but what do you guys think?

james-bond • 28 April 2012 at 12:41 AM

No, I don't think so. It would be extremely unfair on people who've traded lots for something. The reason an egg is extra special is because it's so old and few have them.

shelby • 28 April 2012 at 12:42 AM

@shinyshiny

This has been suggested before, I suggested it a while back, before we even had the forums.

It's being considered, but there would be limitations.

For example, (most likely), retired and Limited Edition creatures WOULD NOT be able to breed and reproduce.

However, details on whether or not this will be done has yet to be announced, as far as I know.

trish • 28 April 2012 at 12:43 AM

Hate to break it to you, but this suggestion has been suggested and will not happen due to the negativity. :/

shinyshiny • 28 April 2012 at 12:43 AM

@shelby
That would a good idea, and I would see how that would work for everyone.

So only retired and limited editions couldn't breed, and anything else could? That would be good


And um, I didn't know this was asked before, I was just a little curious.

shelby • 28 April 2012 at 12:46 AM

@ShinyShiny;

Yes that is what I suggested to Ian ages ago.
We will have to wait and see what he says.
I'm sure there would be A LOT of programming that goes into that, and it wouldn't happen any time soon IF Ian Decides to do it.

sunshinecat • 28 April 2012 at 12:57 AM

@shinyshiny

Putting in my 2 cents.

To prevent limited/retired creatures from becoming 'common', perhaps the 'generation' of each creature could be displayed on it's profile? So, eggs/creatures which were not bred are the first generation and therefore most valuable. This would make it so that people could possibly get a really rare 'species', but it would be 'high generation' so it wouldn't actually take away from the rareness of the original (the higher generation, the more times it has been bred)?

Also, common creatures would probably breed much, much more often than limited/retired creatures. Rarer creatures would not successfully breed often. Besides, if those creatures couldn't breed...what would really be the point of breeding common creatures in the first place if you can get them easily anyway?

But to be fair, these would be huge changes and probably quite a pain to program. I'm fine without breeding.

(If anyone plays DC, this is probably very familiar).

shinyshiny • 28 April 2012 at 1:02 AM

@sunshinecat

Yes, I realize that a lot of programming must go into that, with the chances of a rarexcommon=which one.

But we're saying that limited and retired shouldn't breed, so they could still stay rare and hard to get.

This WOULD cause huge changes, but would be common-uncommon, and no rares.

(This does sound familiar, since I do play it, so I know about the programming and the chance counter)

poppiloveslabs • 3 May 2012 at 1:25 AM

I would love to see breed come on here.

I just common and uncommon would be able to breed.

and if you want breed rare maybe a price 1000K to breed rare ones.

cqpkytty • 3 May 2012 at 1:44 AM

A suggestion:
Common immortal adults can breed. (But why would you want to breed them, anyway?)
Endangered immortal adults can breed. Endangered ISN'T the same as retired, I think Ian said so.
Nothing else can breed.

crescentfeather • 3 May 2012 at 1:53 AM

@shinyshiny No. I believe Ian has already promised not to implement this feature, for many valid reasons.

This has been suggested over 5 times before. Each time, the problems outweighed the benefits. There was an extremely detailed debate about this awhile back which resulted in many older users threatening to quit.

So, no.