I see that this is a relatively uninteresting and unused feature of lioden. (speaking on the behalf of all the discarded or free beetles from the trade center) WELL let's improve it then, we can make it worth it and fun!

#1- the cost is discouraging
Why are we paying 10sb to train beetles when we get nothing out of battling?? Lets get better rewards.. or at least more common rewards. 20sb would be a nice winning prize. It's not much, but it helps cover the cost of training. The cost to add to your beetle slots is also way too expensive since we don't get any rewards for battling. If this would change the market too badly, then let's add beetle exclusive currency so it doesn't ruin the market system. Personally I haven't gotten a prize from winning, or haven't gotten sb or herbs. If they are rare prizes they should be more common so we are able to get money instead of waste it.

#2- there are no battle tiers, only us fighting against similar beetles
Let's add battling tiers and rewards for those tiers. Say you keep losing, now you're bumped down a tier. Or you win, then you're moved up a tier depending on how much you've won. Tiers should be reset every month to ensure each player has a fair chance at winning special prizes or just being at the top in general. Beetles will not be reset, this just means everyone has to fight/race to be the best in their beetle's assigned tier again. Maybe we can get beetle items or special beetles for this. Yeah the decor is cool, but this feature has so much more potential than just decor.

#3- different beetle activities would make sense
Right now we only have fighting. There are different stats for beetles, so how about we add beetle racing? Instead of adding a new page on crossroads, we should just make a hub basically in crossroads for beetle related things. In addition to the beetle racing this should have tiers to it too so that newbie beetles don't have to constantly lose to beetles that have been trained to have a lot of stats.

#4- weekly rewards for being in different tiers would be motivational
I feel like if there were weekly tier rewards the beetles feature would be used more and people would enjoy it. Leaderboards rewards for beetles who have been in the top tier for that week. Yeah there's a select amount of people using it, but not enough. There are beetles getting given away in the trade center constantly.

#5 we only get notifications that beetles die
This one is a hopefully small change, could we please get a notification that our beetle may starve to death like we get for lions? It could save a lot of beetles in the future.

Voted to work on later:

#1- it would be kinda cool to breed to other players' beetles
This of course would be cheaper than normal lion studding and probably cap around 100-200sb (just throwing numbers out there) depending on how great (stats/species/rarity) the beetles are.

#2- deleted because art for markings would be a lot of work especially for different species, the colors are fine as they are ^^

Feel free to add to this by commenting, i'll edit in details later