There are a lot of amazing ideas on LioDen genetics that I fully support. I love the idea of getting in more colors, fur types, eye colors, different markings.

There's been some concern over these possible new features becoming 'too common'. (I've heard this over the special lionesses).

I'm sort of a new player; I just joined like last month, so I don't know how the economy was before the Maltese was introduced. I'm told that it was meant to be a rare color and stay that way.

What if, in order to keep certain features rare, there was a chance of cub mortality? Like if you breed two special-coats together, there's a chance the cubs will be still-born or something.

In horses, there's a thing called Lethal White Syndrome. It's mostly connected to pinto horses, especially ones who are mostly white. Most mostly-white horses die within hours of birth. In fact, a lot of animals have weird genetic disorders attached to coat colors or other genetic traits: If a Scottish fold cat is homozygous* for the folded ears trait, they have cartilage problems, blue merle Australian shepherds who are homozygous may be born deaf and blind.

(*for those who have no genetics background, quick rundown of the word 'homozygous'. We all have things called genes. On those genes are alleles. Alleles basically tell our bodies 'ok, present THIS TRAIT'. For simplicity's sake, each trait has two alleles, one inherited from each parent. 'Homozygous' just means both alleles are saying 'present this trait'; heterozygous would mean your alleles are saying different things

THIS IS A VERY, VERY BASIC RUN-DOWN. I know it's not one hundred percent accurate, as genetics is super complicated).

This would cut down on the chances of there being 'too many special' lion/esses out there, while still giving people a chance to breed for them. It also means people would have to keep careful track of breeding records.

[PS: if the authors of the above threads want their links removed, just ask and I'll remove them]

Pros:
Keeps certain colors rare while allowing people the chance of getting one
Keeps up cub prices for those who carry the gene but just don't express it
Encourages careful breeding

Cons:
Dead cubs
Difficult to code
There is the argument that LioDen is not meant to be a breeding sim; it's a Lion Simulation game.
Rarity can be achieved by simply altering the pass rates of the genes. No dead cubs need be involved. (if you support this, click here)
Others?