I had an interesting idea for a new feature.

A button on in heat lionesses : Send Wandering or Send Exploring.

What it does:
The lioness goes for an explore into nearby lands. It takes perhaps an hour or so. You may only use this once per day, for one lioness. She may come back pregnant!

What about the sire of the litter??
He will show up as "Unknown" with no heritage when the cubs are born. You have no idea who he was, and the lioness isn't telling. :)

Things that need ironing out:

Litter size: The usual random number.

Sire's Genetics (hidden from users knowledge): It should be a wide, varied pool of possibilities. Of course some special bases and markings should be excluded, but you could get almost anything. I can understand that it may be likely to recieve common bases/marks in most cases but there should certainly be a possibility for special bases and unusual marks! Maybe even exclusive ones! It needs to have potential to be exciting.

Number of markings cub(s) can inherit: Not sure, perhaps there should be a limit..maybe 6 or so? Or just use the usual algorithm....

Should it cost some SB to press the button?

Is the pregnancy chance 100%? Does the lioness's fertility matter? She must not be infertile.

I think this could be a really fun new feature. :)
Feel free to discuss and add your suggestions to the idea!

P.S.: I do know as far as "realism" goes this would likely be bad news for the cubs being sired by an outside lion. :P But since it's a game and we take plenty of liberties with our sparkle-lions I'm ignoring that fact. ;)