Since update 5 I noticed a weird experience with the Rana skin.
When incubating dinosaurs with no research done on any skin color modifications, any dinosaurs incubated with either no skin pattern or a default pattern like Papurana would end up having the dinosaur be incubated with Rana, regardless of choice. This applies to all species incubated, and to solve this issue of having Rana always being applied, you have to unlock the Rana pattern via research.
I thought this is a bug because we do not have access to Rana until much later, and to have all dinosaurs be incubated with this pattern on whether or not I want this pattern or any pattern is an issue, as I am incubating dinosaurs with a skin pattern I didn't order. So I sent it as an issue in the issue tracker, for it to be rejected as something by design.
issues.frontierstore.net
This is rather unfortunate because if it is meant to behave like this by design, it does not feel that well executed. Do not get me wrong, having Rana early on instead is a great idea as Rana is the pattern you apply to most dinosaurs to get the movie-accurate look. I am all in on that direction, I just dislike how I could not use any other skin pattern or blank pattern until I researched the Rana skin, which feels like a lot of effort to use anything besides Rana.
If it is meant to be accessible by default, maybe swapping Rana with Papurana would be the ideal route, as you have Rana unlocked by default which you could turn on or off, and Papurana could take Rana's place as the second skin to be unlocked via the Pattern Genes 1 research Module alongside Chalcorana.
When incubating dinosaurs with no research done on any skin color modifications, any dinosaurs incubated with either no skin pattern or a default pattern like Papurana would end up having the dinosaur be incubated with Rana, regardless of choice. This applies to all species incubated, and to solve this issue of having Rana always being applied, you have to unlock the Rana pattern via research.
I thought this is a bug because we do not have access to Rana until much later, and to have all dinosaurs be incubated with this pattern on whether or not I want this pattern or any pattern is an issue, as I am incubating dinosaurs with a skin pattern I didn't order. So I sent it as an issue in the issue tracker, for it to be rejected as something by design.
Issue Tracker
issues.frontierstore.net
This is rather unfortunate because if it is meant to behave like this by design, it does not feel that well executed. Do not get me wrong, having Rana early on instead is a great idea as Rana is the pattern you apply to most dinosaurs to get the movie-accurate look. I am all in on that direction, I just dislike how I could not use any other skin pattern or blank pattern until I researched the Rana skin, which feels like a lot of effort to use anything besides Rana.
If it is meant to be accessible by default, maybe swapping Rana with Papurana would be the ideal route, as you have Rana unlocked by default which you could turn on or off, and Papurana could take Rana's place as the second skin to be unlocked via the Pattern Genes 1 research Module alongside Chalcorana.