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Making Sub Males More Useful
Make Grandpaws How They Were Meant to Be
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✪ Summary:

March as a month focuses on endangered wildlife, poaching and the tragic loss of countless species from our beautiful planet. Every year, countless animals go extinct, never to be seen again. But it also focuses on conservation efforts around the globe.

In an effort to counteract the rapidly worsening effects of over-hunting, poaching, forest clearing, polution, changing climate and natural disasters, the Frozen Ark Project was created.

https://www.science.org.au/curious/earth-environment/frozen-ark-project

"The Frozen Ark is a conservation project which collects and preserves the tissues, cells and DNA of the world’s most endangered animals. There are a number of other collections of biological material - dubbed ‘frozen zoos’ - across the globe. While resurrecting already-extinct animals such as the thylacine poses enormous technical challenges, properly stored cells and DNA could, in theory, be used to bring back species should they go extinct in the future."

What if we could both bring awareness to this potentially critical method of preserving our dying world's species, and also do something many of us have lamented upon?

Saving past lineages.




✪ What I Am Proposing:

[+] A big ticket item for March Shops with a one time-use: Genetic Storage / Gene Bank

Bases currently are the biggest items of March, with the newest always costing 150 RB, and older bases costing RB. March is a 'low drop currency' month, meaning these prices are scaled to the lowered currency.

➤ I am proposing such an item be hard to obtain, rare, and highly coveted, costing 400 RB per Gene Bank.
➤ Additionally, players can only purchase one Gene Bank per account at a time, with a special 'buy' slot at the very bottom or very top of the March Shop.

Why only one!?
This is both to preserve the value of the lions and items, and ensure that the market is not flooded. Our lion economy is already bad. I don't want it to get worse for players looking to revive lost genetics.


This suggestion was created in response to both overhearing player conversations, and in response to a thread detailing the crisis that breed-only is currently facing on Lioden, where marks are going extinct: https://www.lioden.com/topic.php?id=304429484350

NOTICE: Players will NOT be able to use this to stud to submales and I am not including this in the suggestion.


Usage:
Having a Gene Bank in your hoard when visiting the dynasty page of a deceased king or lion will provide you a duplicate of the studding / reverse studding page.

Additional breeding items may be used from this menu - including both male and female items.

Dynasty Male:

This page will require the following items:
➤ Gene Bank
➤ Stud Fee

It will display a dropdown of the player's females currently in-heat. If you own the deceased king, you will not have to supply a stud fee. Upon clicking accept, your female will become pregnant on the first try - similar to Maneater Studs. The Gene Bank item will be consumed.

Similar to having bred from a living king, the genetics will roll, lionesses will need to be nested, and players will be able to utilize an IBF if desired.

Dynasty Female:

This page will require the following items:
➤ Gene Bank
➤ Reverse Breeding Fee
➤ Nesting Material
➤ Instant Cub Delivery

The player's king will be displayed. If you own the deceased female, you will not have to supply a reverse breeding fee. Upon clicking accept, the player will receive the cubs, aged up to weaned. They will be placed in the players' unsorted cave.

Given the expensive, seasonal nature of this item, I believe cubs should have a couple layers of protection automatically implemented.

Cubs should be given a unique name to ensure protection priority. I recommend "New Cub [ARK]". I also believe cubs should be secured automatically upon being received.


Thanks for reading.

NOTICE: Players will NOT be able to use this to stud to submales and I am not including this in the suggestion.

If you don't support, I'd like to know why. I appreciate constructive criticism over a simple "no".