Before you read this, please check out this suggestion, as it was the inspiration for this one.


I really liked the idea of having a queen/dominant female in lioden that Garet suggested, especially since dominant females in real life lion prides are actually a thing( usually the matriarch or most experienced lioness in the pride). But I wasn't really a fan of the functionality they proposed. To me it seemed more like just a female version of a sub male, so it had me thinking: "What about a change in hunting instead?"


One of the most important functions of lionesses on lioden is the fact they can go out on hunts. If a queen were appointed in your pride, there could be an extra button on the hunting page called "Queens Hunt"(or something like that).
This button would bring you to an Explore-esc page where you now are playing as your queen. The page will give you the option of bringing up to 1-4 lionesses with you or simply going alone.
Once set out on a hunt, your queen and any lionesses she brought with her can find an assortment of randomized items and prey, as your king would in explore.


Stances
A stance toggle button would allow your queen to switch between "Casual" and "Stealth". This would alter the likely hood of encounters.
Casual would make your queen more likely to find items and possible fights, but decrease the chance of finding prey to add to the hoard.
Stealth would do the exact opposite, Increasing the chance of prey, but decreasing the chance of items and fights.


Hunting
Actually killing prey would be much like random fight encounters(though the button prompt would be "Hunt!" instead of "Fight!"). This is where bringing lionesses with you would come in handy. The more lionesses you take, the more edge over the prey you will have, each lioness providing their own strength, speed, or smarts boost to the fight. Some prey will only give you the option to hunt if you have a certain number of lionesses depending on the difficulty. If the fight is won, you receive the carcass of the animal you killed and all the lionesses will gain exp, the queen in particular may get a little more. If lost, no food for you and all lionesses will only get half or no exp at all.


Ending Queens Hunt and cool downs
I'm not entirely sure how The hunts would end yet. Maybe the queen would have an energy bar like the king, or there would be a certain number of hunt attempts before your queen decides to return home. Of course, there is always the option to leave at any point by the player. Regardless of how the hunt ends, partaking in a Queens Hunt is a special add on, much like patrolling sub males or normal hunts. So of course, there must be a cool down to prevent over use and abuse for the function. I feel like this activity in particular would have a lot more added benefits so it can only take place once a day. Upon rollover it would reset and you can go on another Queens Hunt if you choose.



For the players who don't really fancy all this 'Queen lioness' talk, simply not appointing a queen would remove all of these possibilities from their pride as if they didn't exist.

Welp, that's about all I got. I just thought this was an interesting concept.