Suggestions for more realistic animal keeping/breeding and suggestions for new animals

[RuneBiology]

I have a few ideas for upgrade the realistic breeding and keeping:
1: If animals lay eggs in real life, they also do so in the game and you can see this by building nests, actually seeing the eggs lying, etc.;
2: This is actually related to the first. That if the animals lay eggs, you can leave them there, allow the animals to incubate the eggs themselves or let them hatch without incubating in the enclosure (this is for animals that don't incubate there eggs themselves, for example turtles) or that you can take them away and then use them hatch in a kind of incubator. It would be great if there is hatching chance that is determined by chance, for example: 0-max number of eggs hatch and that, for example, you can determine the temperature of turtles to determine the sex of the offspring;
3: My latst idea is that you can take ultrasounds of mammals when they are pregnant to monitor the pregnancy, find out how many offspring will be born, etc.

I also have a few ideas for adding new species of animals:
1: As many people have said, flying birds for which aviaries can be made or aviaries exist for them;
2: Different types of fish for both habitats and exibits;
3: The last idea is to add more reptile species for both habitats and exibits.

I think that many people have already made these suggestions and perhaps different wording or better suggestions, I hope for them and of course for me that these suggestions are read and that they give ideas to the makers

 

[NZFanatic]

If animals lay eggs in real life, they also do so in the game and you can see this by building nests, actually seeing the eggs lying, etc.

1. Why?
2. Frontier has already said it's not going to happen.

 

[RuneBiology]

1. Why?
2. Frontier has already said it's not going to happen.

What do you mean by why and what have they already said they are not going to do? It's probably just me not understanding your answer and being new here haha

 

[Leaf Productions]

We need realistic mating before we need egg laying mechanics

 

[Swjosdotschka]

What do you mean by why and what have they already said they are not going to do? It's probably just me not understanding your answer and being new here haha

Frontier said they will not include egg laying in the game. Now, they changed their opinion on features in the past, but I don't see this happen with egg laying. The period any bird nests is incredibly short and with the speed that the game runs with, it wouldn't even make sense. Even with aging turned to five time slower, we would talk about real life minutes here that we could actually see a bird nesting.

I also don't get why egg laying seems so important to bird people, to be honest. We can live without realisting birthes, we can live without realisting hatching. I'd rather see them invest more time in realistic parent to offspring behaviour, including but not limited to nursing, grooming, carrying (depending on species). That would actually be an animation that is not incredibly rare or short lived in timing.

Anyway, welcome to the forum. I'm sorry your start of here seems a bit harsh because some of us don't agree. I promise some of us are really nice regardless.

 

[tigris115]

I think if there's ever an option for eggs, the best thing to do would be the following

1. Nest items: Often, zoos make areas to encourage animals to nest there. In-game, this can be a little shelter or something.

2. Incubator: Basically a big room where you can pull eggs from parents to better their odds. It's also helpful for animals that have a crapton of babies. Also, make it so baby reptiles are tradeable.

Only with those two things, I'd accept egg laying.

Though tbh, I'd rather have improved baby/parent interactions before we get this.

 

[RuneBiology]

Frontier said they will not include egg laying in the game. Now, they changed their opinion on features in the past, but I don't see this happen with egg laying. The period any bird nests is incredibly short and with the speed that the game runs with, it wouldn't even make sense. Even with aging turned to five time slower, we would talk about real life minutes here that we could actually see a bird nesting.

I also don't get why egg laying seems so important to bird people, to be honest. We can live without realisting birthes, we can live without realisting hatching. I'd rather see them invest more time in realistic parent to offspring behaviour, including but not limited to nursing, grooming, carrying (depending on species). That would actually be an animation that is not incredibly rare or short lived in timing.

Anyway, welcome to the forum. I'm sorry your start of here seems a bit harsh because some of us don't agree. I promise some of us are really nice regardless.

ok I understand now and no problem. If there were eggs it would be a nice addition to get a realistic experience, but it was just an idea. Thanks for the reply.

 

[RuneBiology]

I think if there's ever an option for eggs, the best thing to do would be the following

1. Nest items: Often, zoos make areas to encourage animals to nest there. In-game, this can be a little shelter or something.

2. Incubator: Basically a big room where you can pull eggs from parents to better their odds. It's also helpful for animals that have a crapton of babies. Also, make it so baby reptiles are tradeable.

Only with those two things, I'd accept egg laying.

Though tbh, I'd rather have improved baby/parent interactions before we get this.

Yes, that is easier to realize than my idea and you are right it is better to have more realistic interactions first before more realistic breeding.

 

[RuneBiology]

We need realistic mating before we need egg laying mechanics

Yes you are right as i said before to Tigris115

 

[Xrystal]

Similar to how they deal with mating - they just show some sort of courting ritual to suggest mating. Perhaps egg layers could have nest objects that appear - first empty to denote eggs haven't laid. Then with eggs. Then with baby hatchlings. Unfortunately I concur that time frames could effect things and you are likely to miss the scant seconds/minutes that the nests may exist. But with the educational side of the game, it would be good to have something to show that they are egglayers rather than livebearers. I guess it all depends on their long term plans with the game. And it is a game, some things we may have to live with or without to keep it a game.

 

[RuneBiology]

Similar to how they deal with mating - they just show some sort of courting ritual to suggest mating. Perhaps egg layers could have nest objects that appear - first empty to denote eggs haven't laid. Then with eggs. Then with baby hatchlings. Unfortunately I concur that time frames could effect things and you are likely to miss the scant seconds/minutes that the nests may exist. But with the educational side of the game, it would be good to have something to show that they are egglayers rather than livebearers. I guess it all depends on their long term plans with the game. And it is a game, some things we may have to live with or without to keep it a game.

Yes you are right it is still a game you cannot make it completely realistic.