I don't want inbreeding between parents and children.

[alskdgasd]

maybe you didnt notice, but you are the toxic one. religious fanatic or something?

RELIGIOUS fanatic? For having an issue with incest? I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm a PARENT. And it BOTHERS ME for my animals TO HAVE SEX WITH THEIR CHILDREN. I came here to give feedback. Did you not see Morbad respond to my personal issue about the feature with an article of a zoo murdering a 2 year old giraffe and feeding it to lions to "stop inbreeding"?

I'm pretty content with my decision. Some people had genuine points on the topic and debated it fairly, or at least tried to help me avoid the feature, but some of you were just gross and insensitive. Enjoy your game. ✌

 

[TheGaijin87]

RELIGIOUS fanatic? For having an issue with incest? I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm a PARENT. And it BOTHERS ME for my animals TO HAVE SEX WITH THEIR CHILDREN. I came here to give feedback. Did you not see Morbad respond to my personal issue about the feature with an article of a zoo murdering a 2 year old giraffe and feeding it to lions to "stop inbreeding"?

I'm pretty content with my decision. Some people had genuine points on the topic and debated it fairly, or at least tried to help me avoid the feature, but some of you were just gross and insensitive. Enjoy your game. ✌

you do know that this is a game, right? and you do know that they are animals, right?
people nowadays search for reasons to get mad about anything. seriously. just ignore it. or take one of the many possible solutions to fix it. but you are just here to troll, that is all.

 

[xTosca]

Just use contraceptives and only keep one main breeding male at a time. Whenever babies are born, immediately go to the zoo menu and enable contraceptives on all of them. When you're ready to breed the younger group, move out the old male and replace him with a new one, or put him on contraceptives and just replace him with a new breeding male.

Of course, with this method it's only really possible to keep a family line going through the female side, but it's effective.

 

[Crea_TivELA]

I kind of wondering how some know exact who is the mother and who is the father, since we have no family tree! Okay... you can figure it out easily when there is just one female and one male - but for flamigos were you have a bunch of animals, I just don't believe you can keep track of it correctly, or you just have this one habitat with flamigos in your zoo (which would be kind of strange too).

The most important thing we would need here, is the family tree, or at least a "adopted" for animals we bought in the market and a "born in the zoo" which tells us the parents names too.

I think it's difficult to keep track without it, with a family tree (name of animal AND zoo born) it would be easier to see too if a animal is related to the current animal family, because even when it's a slighly low chance to buy the great aunt of your actual animal family, it still could be the case and we wouldn't know it, which is inbreeding again.

 

[ctthomas]

I know you're upset, but to be fair, the game does give you like 5 warnings that an animal is aging up and a permanent notification when they do age up. You just need to be vigilant for notifications and when you get one, get to the animal to either sell it or it's parents. That way no inbreeding!

 

[ctthomas]

I kind of wonderimg how some know exact who is the mother and who is the father, since we have no family tree! Okay... you can figure it out easily when there is just one female and one male - but for flamigos were you have a bunch of animals, I just don't believe you can keep track of it correctly, or you just have this on habitat with flamigos in your zoo (which would be kind of strange too).

The most important thing we would need here, is the family tree, or at least a "adopted" for animals we bought in the market and a "born in the zoo" which tells us the parents names too.

I think it's difficult to keep track without it, with a family tree (name of animal AND zoo born) it would be easier to see too if a animal is related to the current animal family, because even when it's a slighly low chance to buy the great aunt of your actual animal family, it still could be the case and we wouldn't know it, which is inbreeding again.

This is what i posted on another thread to answer the same question.

I had the problem of keeping track of them all with my flamingos. Now when they're born I put in parentheses (mom's name/ dad's name) next to their name. When they age up I quickly go to them and decide if I want to keep them or not. If I keep them I get rid of both parents and get a new flamingo of the opposite gender. If I get rid of them that's that.

If I always get rid of either baby or parents I know there will never be inbreeding.

But I will say a family tree would make everyone's lives far simpler

 

[alskdgasd]

I always go into the animal panel list, sort it by age & give all the new babies/young animals birth control. You can't set birth control in their individual window before maturity but you can in the panel list. Maybe what would be really helpful is having an option for automatic birth control with new births.

I didn't realize that, thank you! It was stressful thinking I'd have to jump over there immediately or risk them getting pregnant because I couldn't turn their contraceptive on in advance.

I kind of wondering how some know exact who is the mother and who is the father, since we have no family tree! Okay... you can figure it out easily when there is just one female and one male - but for flamigos were you have a bunch of animals, I just don't believe you can keep track of it correctly, or you just have this on habitat with flamigos in your zoo (which would be kind of strange too).

The most important thing we would need here, is the family tree, or at least a "adopted" for animals we bought in the market and a "born in the zoo" which tells us the parents names too.

I think it's difficult to keep track without it, with a family tree (name of animal AND zoo born) it would be easier to see too if a animal is related to the current animal family, because even when it's a slighly low chance to buy the great aunt of your actual animal family, it still could be the case and we wouldn't know it, which is inbreeding again.

I'd never be able to tell with flamingos/frogs/peafowls/etc., but it was pretty obvious with my particular giraffe enclosure because they were new and only had given birth once. I could've sworn I read/heard that there was actually supposed to be a family tree feature, though? Unless I'm wrong, maybe they haven't implemented it yet or it's bugged.

I know you're upset, but to be fair, the game does give you like 5 warnings that an animal is aging up and a permanent notification when they do age up. You just need to be vigilant for notifications and when you get one, get to the animal to either sell it or it's parents. That way no inbreeding!

You're totally right. My flamingos make so many babies that I stopped really paying close attention to those particular notifications. I noticed when it told me she was expecting though, unfortunately. I got excited and went to look at them and then realized it was the baby that was pregnant.

 

[KaoRu]

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t want to get rid of inbreeding completely. Inbreeding happens, and sometimes it does without a real good explanation why. I do think managing and avoiding inbreeding it’s a cool mechanic on PZ.

I just feel that, right now, it’s really extreme. Let’s say I have 3 pairs of unrelated flamingos and they breed and have a total of 8 chicks. The chicks grow up and I don’t put them on the pill because I want them to mate too with one of the others chicks. But instead they breed with their siblings or their parents! Why? Again I understand if they could be factors promoting that like bad care, or even if there’s random individuals that are just like that. But I don’t feel that it’s normal to expect them all to inbreed as default, and putting them on the pill also prevents the group to grow altogether. I don’t think we should go around disabling the pill in two specific individuals, wait then to breed, and proceed to the next pair one by one.

It’s a little overkill in my opinion.

If you want to breed them with those unrelated (and you somehow know who is related and who isn't)....Then you will have to give the rest of the Flamingo's the pill except that one flamingo and the one you want it to mate with.

 

[Dr4gon]

The OP may want to tone down a bit. They are animals in a game, and no church, or national law is broken here. The animals are just pixels, and the whole problem is just in the beholder's head. Do like me, once little ones mature, send them off in the wilds and forget about them. Let mother nature do it's job and not be restricted by human moral standards. Again, this is a game. Nothing here is real. You can buy these pixels in a pixel market and instantly use a contraceptive on them. Let them breed only when you give them permission.

 

[KaoRu]

The OP may want to tone down a bit. They are animals in a game, and no church, or national law is broken here. The animals are just pixels, and the whole problem is just in the beholder's head. Do like me, once little ones mature, send them off in the wilds and forget about them. Let mother nature do it's job and not be restricted by human moral standards. Again, this is a game. Nothing here is real. You can buy these pixels in a pixel market and instantly use a contraceptive on them. Let them breed only when you give them permission.

I know right.

It's just like real zoo's really. They have family members live together and it's their job to make sure there is no inbreeding so...Do your job I guess.

 

[alskdgasd]

You guys are hellbent on instigating and being insensitive. It's crazy. This is a feedback thread for gameplay. You're telling me to get over it because it's pixels when literally half the forum is complaining that the speed is too fast and they're not able to "bond" with their animals before they die, or that the wolves aren't accurate and true to life.

I'm entitled to my opinion, my kinks, and my freedom to give feedback to the developers. Quit worrying about criticizing me and go do something else with your life.

 

[itsrobjm]

RELIGIOUS fanatic? For having an issue with incest? I'm not a religious fanatic, I'm a PARENT. And it BOTHERS ME for my animals TO HAVE SEX WITH THEIR CHILDREN. I came here to give feedback. Did you not see Morbad respond to my personal issue about the feature with an article of a zoo murdering a 2 year old giraffe and feeding it to lions to "stop inbreeding"?

I'm pretty content with my decision. Some people had genuine points on the topic and debated it fairly, or at least tried to help me avoid the feature, but some of you were just gross and insensitive. Enjoy your game. ✌

Can't work out if you're trolling or being serious....

 

[KaoRu]

You guys are hellbent on instigating and being insensitive. It's crazy. This is a feedback thread for gameplay. You're telling me to get over it because it's pixels when literally half the forum is complaining that the speed is too fast and they're not able to "bond" with their animals before they die, or that the wolves aren't accurate and true to life.

I'm entitled to my opinion, my kinks, and my freedom to give feedback to the developers. Quit worrying about criticizing me and go do something else with your life.

They are problems that actually need fixing. Yours is something you can fix yourself with a pill. Yes everyone is entitled to their opinion but you can't expect not to get the responses you want.

The bonding bit though....I have an Albino Peafowl who was of course the star of the habitat and I always went back to her and watched her do Peafowl things and have her many babies. She's nearly 25 years old now (bought at 2 years old) and the life expectancy of a Peafowl is 23 years so she will go pretty soon and honestly I'm really sad about that. Bcuz I actually took the time to, shall we say, spend it with her and the fact she was my first Albino....I've taken many pics of her aswell as with her babies. She sleeps most of the time now. I will definitely miss her. Anyway my point is that I think people actually need to try and spend some time with the animals to "Bond" with them. Yeah there's a ton of management to do but I got to a point where my animals and guests were happy for like 10 minutes so I was able to actually sit back and chill or even leave my computer. You just gotta figure it out really.

 

[Skip Rockbounder]

I'm going to uninstall the game and stop playing. That'll be my solution. That isn't my idea of fun and some of the responses I've received on this thread have been toxic. Too bad I can't get a refund.

They're animals, it's what nature intended, rules put up by what considers itself a civilised society mean nothing to an animal that lives to a different set of rules, do you know what information a cat gets from smelling another's rear end, do you understand how offensive/inoffensive it is to do that at a particular time or for a prolonged period? you know very little about animals from what you observe because much of the communication between them is beyond you.
If you dislike animals breading in a family (and it's not affecting their health) it's your mind that's being a problem not nature, perhaps you should look at segregating the males... or don't look!

 

[Sir.Tj]

I'd say it might be better to leave it there.