Too many albinos!!!

Jileha

J
Although I can understand the fascination with breeding albinos and having them in your zoo, the market currently is flodded with them. Even when you buy non-albino animals to breed non-albino animals, for lots of species, the breeding couple each carry the gene and the offspring will be albino. I like white tigers and peafowl - but only mixed in with the colored version, but really do not want any other white animals in my zoos as, quite frankly, I find most of them pretty ugly when they normally have naturally so beautiful colors. For most animals, albinos are extremely rare and the market should not be overflowing with them.

Very soon, all the normal colored animals will be as rare as albinos are in real life. :(

Now, I have get rid of unwanted albinos and spend extra time to make sure they don’t procreate. And spend more CC to buy new animals to replace their parents with the risk of the same thing happening again. That’s not my idea of playing. Please, developers, make the albino gene much, much rarer and not so easy to breed or come up with a symbol to mark animals carrying that gene so we can avoid buying those.
 

MedjayMlezi

M
Agree also. some kind of marker would be nice, mosiac is rare(r) but can and did happen in real life to a lion.
I recommend a symbol for other color variations when/if added, as well.
 

peon2t

P
Now you mention it... two thirds of my big lion habitat are albinos too. Game keeps me busy with other micromanagement overload, so I can't really care about the color of the animals, though.
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
MedjayMlezi said:
Agree also. some kind of marker would be nice, mosiac is rare(r) but can and did happen in real life to a lion.
I recommend a symbol for other color variations when/if added, as well.
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Which, honestly, where promised in the dev diaries. I'm not talking about special colors, but talking of fur variants. We had darker and lighter lions and I never saw them in game. I love darker lions and would love to breed twoards them. Would also give the game another challenge. Something meainingful to do: careful breeding.
 

NL_Mutso

NL_Mutso
I remember some posts about this and users wanted a lot of them.. (full zoo of albino etc)
For them it wouldn't be fun if they have to wait a long time for this..

I fully agree with you.. I said the same before 'it's more fun/rewarding when it's very rare'
 

jooxis

J
I agree. I don't think the devs could have foreseen this but the market is just oversaturated with albinos as if it were the standard coloration.
I don't particularly care about making it super easy for people who want all-albino zoos - that is a gimmicky niche concept and no need to be catered to in my opinion. In fact, if anything, such an ambition should be difficult to fulfill so it feels rewarding for those players...
 

jip241

J
Would an obvious (and realistic) adjustment be to reduce the genetic (max?) stats of albino/leucistic animals? That way there is a trade-off (particularly reduced fertility) for those wishing to breed albino animals?

To be fair, I have nurtured a small all-albino giraffe herd; at the time - and I think still now - finding fertile albino females on the market was quite difficult, so I used a two-generation method starting from two albino males which was an interesting and rewarding challenge. Since then I've had a few albino lions, warthog and nile monitor - and must admit the novelty is now wearing thin.

The trouble with marking albino carriers is that while some of you would use the information to avoid such animals, I imagine a far larger number of players would be keen to adopt them, making albinos even more common. Indeed I sold a couple of albino-dad giraffes (and renamed them to indicate this), and they sold for a little more than they might otherwise have done (though I'm no expert judge of value!)
 

eehbiertje

E
they should be rare.. but can't blame people i am breeding them like crazy just to get franchise mode up and running as they mostly sell for more.. (as you can't take the cash with you to another park / but you can take points etc..)
 

Jileha

J
jip241 said:
The trouble with marking albino carriers is that while some of you would use the information to avoid such animals, I imagine a far larger number of players would be keen to adopt them, making albinos even more common. Indeed I sold a couple of albino-dad giraffes (and renamed them to indicate this), and they sold for a little more than they might otherwise have done (though I'm no expert judge of value!)
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You’re probably right, but at least everyone could choose what they want. In real life, if a zoo buys an animal from another zoo, they have all that information beforehand. And we already have the genetic information.

I find the current Franchise market extremely frustrating anyways. I would like to set up a lemur house. Hardly any females available. I would’t mind coming back several times before I can get my group completed, but to achieve this would require way too much time for each aninal. And it’s not just the lemurs. Also, I refuse to pay 2000 CC or more for a mediocre female. Before I give in to supply and demand (and I have lots of CC, so it’s about the principle), I’ll switch to Challenge mode, which is looking more and more attractive to me. This should also solve the albino problem.
 

Imagin

Imagin
I'm also a bit miffed with the prolificacy of albinism in the game. It's a very rare occurrence in the wild and when it happens it's considered a defect because it is - these animals don't have the camouflage that is necessary for their survival. The only reason so many white lions, for example, exist is because they are inbred in captivity because people pay more to pet the cubs and shoot the adults in canned hunts. Kevin Richardson, a lion expert, says that white lions also often have other defects, both physical and mental.
 

Vigilante

Vigilante
Whereby one must say, PZ reflects the situation with the albinos pretty exactly. Albino animals are only rare until there is a breeding pair. Lions, tigers, peacocks are only popular examples from real life. There is to every animal what the human gets into the hands, albino breeding forms. Or other color deviations. Alone from the Python regius there are now hundreds of color forms. The same with hedgehogs, ferrets, quails, dogs, cats etc. etc.. What I always find interesting is how fast the markets collapse in PZ. At the moment try to find a reasonable Hippo breeding pair. That can't be done. ^^
 
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