Mysidia Adoptables Support Forum - Some More Breeding Options

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Some More Breeding Options

So I know that breeding is a massive part of some people's sites, so there is always people asking for new features, but based upon what I've seen, perhaps some of the features below would be a good idea to implant in future releases?

Obviously these features could be toggled in the admin area or whatever.

+ Stop breeding at certain stage - people who want realistic sites and know some animals can't breed after a certain age, or shouldn't.

+ Gestation period - already has a thread, but I thought I'd mention it.

+ Litters - perhaps have it like Dragon Cave has it - they breed litters, but you can only select one baby to take? ADDED: It would be nice to choose the minium and maximum amount of babies they can breed in one go and then it's random between that.

+ Breeding chance - there is a possibility that your pets won't breed.

+ Breeding Seasons - only allow your pets to be bred within a certain time frame.

There are probably some I have missed, but whatever. I know this is all a lot of work, but I know that for 1.3.0 the breeding script is being redone, so perhaps it could be considered for future releases?

Instead of having massive litters, I think that the admin should be able to put something like:
Minimum Number of Offspring: [####]
Maximum Number of Offspring: [####]

Because, realistically, say I have a ferret, it's not going to be able to pop out 20 babies at once! So, for each pet created, it can have a set variable, for example:
x<# of offspring<y (more than [or equal to] x and less [or equal to] than y). Makes sense, no?

Everything else = support

I'll change that - it would be nice to change how many babies you can have.

Breeding chance is easy and I have it on my site.
Make a new field in your adoptables table called bredchance and set it to whatever number you want.
This would go somewhere in your breeding script.

PHP Code:


		
			
$bredtemp = rand(0,100);
if($bredtemp <= $bredchance){
$article_content = "These two don't seem very interested in each other right now. Try again in a week.";    
}    
else{
run query to insert bred offspring

Id say these are quite nice suggestions, I will take into consideration while producing Mys v1.3.0. The main new features are already completed, and I am currently in the stage of improving existing features. As SDT said, it is not difficult to get breeding chance/probability to work.

Oh, I have one more breeding suggestion! Breeding Seasons, basically letting an admin choose that a certain pet can only be bred from 'this date' to 'this date'. Again, makes things more realistic, or at least gives to option for more realism.

That is an awesome idea - I'll add it! ^.^

Well this does sound like an interesting suggestion too Iris. The new admin control panel will definitely improve the controllability of breeding system, hopefully it will come out nicely.