Heyo everyone! c:

The problem:

Since lioness fertility percentage drops have been introduced, there is a continuous downward trend in prides where low-fertility lionesses are bred later in their reproductive lives and produce cubs which inherit the fertility percentage, from their mother, as it stands at the time of the breeding.

For those of us who breed for mutations and handle low fertility breedings consistently, this is an undeniable boon and almost negates the need to use tackweed altogether. However, for the users who breed instead for markings, bases, or stats, I believe we are constantly battling against an across-the-board decline in fertility. It leaves us with a pride of lionesses that have inherited <=5% fertility and continue to produce cubs with that percentage or lower. This forces us to spend 100-500sb per lioness per breeding for their entire breeding lives, or purchase Black Stallions or Vuka Vuka, just to get a simple breeding done.

Possible Solutions:

- Separate inherited fertility (perhaps have it as a standalone stat) versus age-related fertility drops. Cubs inherit the fertility that their mothers genetically have, rather than the one affected by age-related drops. In this situation, fertility-changing items such as tackweed, chasteberry, & vuka-vuka WOULD affect the inherited level of genetic fertility. (Black stallion would not, as this does not change the fertility percentage, just removes the gamble) This would mean that mutation breeders could still breed for low fertility to help with mutation projects, but marking/base/look breeders could breed higher fertility into their lionesses to make their own projects easier.

How it'd work :
Lioness 'A' would have two values considered when her fertility is calculated, producing an 'active' fertility:

Inherited fertility: 50%
Age-related Fertility Debuff: -20%
Active Fertility: 30%

When chasteberries/tackweed are applied, that would be added/removed to the Inherited fertility:

Inherited fertility: 50% (+20%)
Age-related Fertility Debuff: -20%
Active Fertility: 50% (+20%, chasteberries applied)

The fertility passed on here would be 50% (give or take a bit for how the game passes).

I appreciate that this is not a fully fleshed out solution, but I'd be grateful for your suggestions and opinions on making the fertility system a little fairer. I don't have a complete answer, but it'd be awesome if we could come up with one. c: