Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-30638561-20140302171706/@comment-3263709-20140303031038

Some ideas, if we decide to add this: 1.) An "animal crate" (or something with a less stupid name/appearance) that would be a single craftable unlocked part. You would be able to put animals in this crate, meaning you won't have to deal with troubles of transportation.

2.) A soft cap (but for each animal type, as NoBanana suggested) for animal types. As more animals of a certain type fill the server, it would be harder and harder to get them to reproduce (Chance of not reproducing and removing the "fed" status? More food to reproduce? Longer times for baby animals to grow up?) Eventually there'd be a hardcap, to prevent the extremely persistent players from lagging up servers

3.) Starvation. This would be in the background, and would be in place of aging. You'd have to feed the animals once every thirty minutes, at least. If you feed an animal that's gone 20 minutes without food, the food will not give the "fed" status for breeding, but will reset the starvation timer. It would be a good idea to somehow inform the player of starvation, though. You don't want to have your prized teraphyx suddenly drop dead because you thought you fed him.

4.) Stats. This is unlikely, but maybe. There would be certain stats for each animal. Like aggression, attack, health, milk (for cows), speed, how easy to tame, how hungry it gets, perhaps a rare special color, etc. The list goes on. When two animals breed, their stats will be combined and have random minor mutations applied to the offspring. This with #1 could introduce roaming animal breeders, who breed and sell animals for a living.

5.) Original animal spawning. No matter what, there will always be a set amount of each species untamed, in their natural habitats. Maybe 2 for bentos, 1 for teraphyx, etc. If there are too many animals of a certain type, the untamed animals of that type will be untamable until the animal pop lowers.

6.) Animal Riding. UBER UBER unlikely, but perhaps there could be a (very) rare trait in animals that allows them to be ridden. Considering how complicated this would be, and how little use it would be, this will probably never get added.