"White" carriers

RhapsoRisxx

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Hello.

I would like to be able to see what animals are albino/leucism carriers. Perhaps only in sandbox?

I've literally spent the entire day breeding zebras like crazy because I just want a beautiful white zebra. It's getting really frustrating. I'm also on the second to last scenario mode and I've NEVER bred an albino/leucistic animal, not once! :( I feel like I'm wasting my time setting up a breeding zoo to try for white babies as they're probably not even carriers..
 

Caponeal

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a list of albinos seen by players

Cheetah - Spotless
Bengal Tiger - Albino
West African Lion - Albino
Indian Peafowl - Albino
Common Ostrich - Albino
Common Warthog - Albino
Aldabra Tortoise - Albino
African Buffalo - Albino
RingTailed Lemur - Albino
Western Lowland Gorilla - Albino
Springbok - Albino
Tapir - Albino
Pronghorn Antelope - Albino
Hippo - Albino
Gemsbok - Albino
Saltwater Crocodile - Albino
Grizzly Bear - Albino
Giraffe - Albino
Greater Flamingo - Albino
Plains Zebra - Albino
Iguana - Albino
Diamondback Rattle Snake - Albino
Boa Constrictor - Albino
Siberian Tiger - Albino
Nile Monitor - Albino
Giant Panda - Albino
Chimpanzee - Albino
Yellow Anaconda - Albino
Common Death Adder - Albino

The picture in the market is differrent for them
 

HipsterJesus42

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I literally just posted a video up on here that might help you out.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVbheEoHEJw&list=PL1rUsSs6bMTfPEDSLROXHwXONwvj4S2xl&index=5&

It's a pretty involved process if you are intentionally trying to breed one. You have to treat it as if you were going for perfect animals, because that's the best way to promote variation in genes (buying a bunch of animals from different zoos and keeping their breeding separate). I also have a theory (unconfirmed) that frontier zoo animals have a higher chance of carrying the gene since it'd be quickly bred out in other people's zoos. Still, it's always gonna come down to LUCK X EFFORT. If you try hard enough for long enough you'll get it :)
 

Vigilante

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HipsterJesus42 said:
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I also have a theory (unconfirmed) that frontier zoo animals have a higher chance of carrying the gene since it'd be quickly bred out in other people's zoos. Still, it's always gonna come down to LUCK X EFFORT. If you try hard enough for long enough you'll get it :)
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I have the same theory, because albinism is an independent gen, which has to reach 100% and becomes less and less the more the animals with normal fur colours reproduce and the more new animals with correspondingly high genes have to be brought into circulation, otherwise they would die out completely at some point.
 
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RhapsoRisxx

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I play in sandbox for this. Franchise is not something I'm interested in. So I'm only breeding with frontier zoo zebras. 4 pens, 1 male + 5 female in each. Let them all breed once, keep female offspring and 1 best male per pen, fill up remaining female spots with new animals from market. Rotate males so you're not inbreeding and repeat.

I just feel like I'm wasting my time playing because I can't know if I'm actually breeding with carriers and thus have a chance of getting a white zebra, or if they all are NOT carriers so the chance of getting a white one is 0%. Don't even feel like playing anymore, that's how frustrated I am.
 

ASalton1

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The best way to breed albino animals is to buy a albino male off the market. I’ve been pretty successful at breeding gold albino animals but I’ve always started with a known albino animal. For example, I have bred 13 albino gorillas without inbreeding by buying two albino males (not related) and 4 regular females. I kept all the female offspring because I knew they were carriers and once my original white male died I put all of the female carriers in with my other non related white male and about every other baby was albino. I’ve kept all of the white females and bought a third non related male. I put the third male with a few of my white females based on best genetic outcomes and now am getting a fair amount of albino gorillas. Now I’m working on doing the same thing with giraffes.
 

HipsterJesus42

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Vigilante said:
I have the same theory, because albinism is an independent gen, which has to reach 100% and becomes less and less the more the animals with normal fur colours reproduce and the more new animals with correspondingly high genes have to be brought into circulation, otherwise they would die out completely at some point.
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From my experience, its treated more like an allele pairing. If a 1/2 leucistic animal mates with another half leucistic, about 1 in 4 of their kids is leucistic. So you need to be lucky enough to find 2 carriers that both have the recessive leucistic genotype.
 

HipsterJesus42

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RhapsoRisxx said:
As I said I'm playing in sandbox.. not franchise.
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Unfortunately, breeding for stats or attributes is a lot harder in sandbox and especially campaign as you're quite limited in starting selection. I do agree with you that there should be an option to have leucistic animals in sandbox, but I fear that if there was, we'd see nothing else in most sandbox zoos.
 

TheGaijin87

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i dont see anything special in having a leucistic animal... i mean there are literal tons of them on the market with all those breed crazy puppy mill players that theres absolutely no need to have one or even to breed one. in franchise though.
 

HipsterJesus42

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TheGaijin87 said:
i dont see anything special in having a leucistic animal... i mean there are literal tons of them on the market with all those breed crazy puppy mill players that theres absolutely no need to have one or even to breed one. in franchise though.
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Collectors value them. In a collector's mind, perfect stat leucistic animals are the ultimate prize. If you get one, you can consistantly breed and sell more for very large sums of CC (giving you more freedom to buy and breed other animals). I would only consider trying for them in franchise, but OP only wants one species in particular because they enjoy them. Can't really blame them for that.
Also, puppy mills and people trying to breed their own (like OP) operate under entirely different pretenses.
 

TheGaijin87

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yeah put people that have those dont care for CC as they already got more than they could use. there are people with millions of CC. it has no real use. this game is broken as hell and the devs dont seem to be interested in adressing it. either cheats or game speed or whatever. they just dont care.
 

HipsterJesus42

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@TheGaijin87
A million CC is not that hard to earn for people that play a very particular way. That's them though. You do you, man. Devs do care, and would be hurt to hear you say otherwise. Game dev is a very involved process, and they have to take a lot more into consideration than you (or I) realize. This is not the point of this thread, though, and such talk should be taken elsewhere.
 
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