Worried about feeding out good genetics

SirTophamHatt

SirTophamHatt
With the fast moving Franchise mode, I'm a bit worried we'll all breed out good genetics.

I haven't had more than about 150 conservation points and it's a shame there isn't an option to pay with points OR (in-game) cash.

Most people seem to want points.

I find a fairly okay / affordable animal and buy it. Then I look for the opposite sex. It's difficult to afford a better genetic make up so I usually end up getting a slightly worse one.
That means any babies they have will be worse than at least one of the original parents.

While I understand the full game may have problems with brothers and sisters having babies, I see a lot of people selling bad genetically bred animals for cheap, which in turn encourages the buyers who don't have enough points to buy them and breed them, going on to sell those bad animals in droves to try and get more points.

The good gene animals are rarely sold and end up dying in zoos, so I struggle to see when the game is released, how the good genetic animals will prevail.

I suppose a fresh mix released by Frontier Zoo will help keep things fresh, but for how long?
 
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Cocolori

Cocolori
I agree it's a concern but just because both have poor genetics doesn't mean their offspring will be worse. I started out with two really bad timber wolves but their litter was a mixture and I did look for a poor mate but one's whose stats were slightly higher for different categories. Now my wolves are mostly gold (though I do still get the odd dud). All of this is pretty genetically accurate - most traits aren't controlled by a single gene and each parent only passes on up to half of their genetic material so sometimes crossing two poor animals but ones where their genes are different underneath results in hybrid vigour.

The cheetah is a good example where not even a lack of inbreeding is enough to keep an animal down if they are lucky - they reckon the whole species was down to less than 200 pairs at some time in their recent evolutionary past but the population successfully expanded again. Plus there's the element of random mutation.
 

SirTophamHatt

SirTophamHatt
breezerHOG said:
are you suggesting in-game currency or real life cash? please dont request a pay2win system
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Yes, in game cash.

Not sure why they used dollars when it's a British developer company though.
Why you can't change the currency to your own, or they didn't just have Z as currency, I don't know.
 

DeluxeGroupie

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I haven't had this issue. I always bought cheap animals, but tried to get some with not the absolutely worst stats. My offspring has at least 70% of the time better genes than the parents.
 

Lilo

Lilo
I think that the situation will improve on release with more animals in the gene pool so to speak, and once the genetic system is implemented there will be more inclination towards breeding good animals.
 
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