Just posing the idea, as though some of the animals like the tortoises grow up slowly, the interbreed period listed for the animals is much shorter, and realistically in nature the animals would be breeding more often than the game allows. I'm not saying they should breed so fast you can't keep up, but for example, the Timber Wolves take 4 years to grow up, maybe let them mate again when the pups are 2? After all, real wolves may have pups once a year.
Should animals be able to breed while they still have young?
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I think this was a Decision to make it more difficult to breed. In many other Zoo Games the Animals breed way too often. I like it like it actually is
There is an interbirth period mentioned in the zoopedia, so my theory is that they likely planed on doing this, but the feedback from the animals breeding like crazy in the Beta might have caused them to just turn it off.
If they truly wanted to make breeding more difficult they should not have set the breeding success rate at a maximum of 100%. I just annoys me to see all the females getting pregnant at the same time, all giving birth together, it taking a few years for all of these babies to mature and then all females to get pregnant again together.
Since we can slow aging in our zoos to keep them manageable, having an option to allow for females to become pregnant faster (like the zoopedia informs us) and make it so that not 100% of the mating results in babies so we have a mix of babies of different ages, would be cool.
I'm thinking of just giving some females contraceptives and alternating between them to cause a more natural mix of ages in the juveniles, because it annoys me so much
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If they truly wanted to make breeding more difficult they should not have set the breeding success rate at a maximum of 100%. I just annoys me to see all the females getting pregnant at the same time, all giving birth together, it taking a few years for all of these babies to mature and then all females to get pregnant again together.
Since we can slow aging in our zoos to keep them manageable, having an option to allow for females to become pregnant faster (like the zoopedia informs us) and make it so that not 100% of the mating results in babies so we have a mix of babies of different ages, would be cool.
I'm thinking of just giving some females contraceptives and alternating between them to cause a more natural mix of ages in the juveniles, because it annoys me so much
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I’d rather not, I actually prefer it the way it is
I'm not thinking they should do this with the animals that already breed and mature super fast, just maybe some of the ones that do take longer to mature.
I completely agree. The African buffalo can now only have 2 babies in their lifetime as they only mature at 5 years old and get sterile at 15 (which doesn't happen in wild females, as far as i'm aware . )