I'm not really sure if these are suggestions, but these were two things that really came to mind as possibly helpful as I've been playing the last couple days. 

#1 - Why can't male pets do anything else while they are offering a breeding. It's really a pain to offer a breeding, until i have 10 energy and want to use my pet, then Ihave to cancel, use my pet for qust or explore, and then make the breeding offer again. Realisticly, when a pet is offered for stud, it is not frozen in that is can't compete in events (battles) or go places(exploring) So I just thought it would be really helpful if you cuold use your pets energy while the stud wsa being offered. 

#2 - I sort of accidently used the genetic breeding program building by my female unicorn and she became pregnant. It was simply that I didn't bother to read it all becasue I had donated with my male previously and thought I was doing the same. Either way, the unicorn was pregnant, and that was fine. When the baby was born, the very first thing I noticed was that he had Grade 2 Degeneration. The mother has wild parents, and the listed father comes from a very long bloodline of unicorns, so I'm really trying to figure out how they were related enough at all, for the baby to have grade 2 degeneration. I think it's fair that degeneration could have happened if they were both wild parents, but not like this. I think it's sort of unfair and would like to simply suggest that it be considered as something that should be looked into. 

Thanks for reading, 

~boodles

1. Reason for this is because you need 1 energy per breeding, so if your pet doesn't have energy;; say you sent them on a quest or to build something, their energy would be set to 0 after that task is done, thus can't breed now; plus they would be unavaliable for the duration of that time, around 4 hours, anyways, so wouldn't be able to breed, again. -- Though I've had something similar happening, where I put my pets so they don't fight in the arena, then want to breed them, but have to cancel, or find them and pay.

2. The reason for this is because the male Unicorn has degeneration grade 3, should check before you complain. -- An exert of the FAQ: Degeneration always increases or decreases by one grade (except the case of normal breeding and no Degeneration in parents). If the parents aren't close relatives, the Degeneration grade of their child will decrease by 1. If the parents are relatives within 3 generations, the Degeneration grade of their child will increase by 1, the base will be the highest Degeneration grade of the parents.

Anyways, probably should have placed this in the help section, as it doesn't seem like suggestions to me, more of asking why this is doing this, and so on.

I see.... I still think the first one should be looked into, I understand that the pet couldn't build, or be on a quest while the breeding ws offered, that makes sense. However, I think that maybe an instant reduction in energy after offering the breeding and then allowing the pet to carry on with things like arena battles or explore while the offer is still available makes more sense to me... 

As for the second one, I see that now, I did not nothice the father had degeneration, I find its very, 'unnoticable' on the pets profile page where it's just black print the same as everything else on it's profile, while it is very obvious and much more hlpful when it stands out with the stars in your pets page, sales pages or breeding pages, so maybe that is a suggestion. 

Second one I fully support - an easier information flow is always better.

First one though, I think it makes a lot more sense the way it is. You posting up an add for your animal's stud services doesn't require any effort on the pet's part, it's the breeding itself that has him performing.
That said, depending on the exact reason it currently prevents other actions (this may be intentional), it could be possible to perhaps have the script simply detect a pet's energy - when they run out, their breeding offer is hidden until they replenish?

(Not to say I am against your first idea, just picking up on your word choice. Unicorns building astrological observatories doesn't make sense either, and we have those!)

Hmmm, yes, even that idea for the first one would be better I think. It's just a pain to have to put it up, then cancel, use the pet, then put it up again, generally twice a day. I'm just trying to relate it to the real world, I mean, if you are offering your racehorse or dog fot stud, the add goes in the papper, and has absolutely no effect on the animal until it gets 'accepted'. So it makes sense you need the energy to do the breeding, it's just hard to maeuver around putting them up and down all the time when there might be an easier way of thinking about it.

Agreed, especially when you consider breeding is a very big part of the game, with its own leaderboard and everything.
However it would be implemented, I fully support it being made easier.

boodles (#36715) wrote:

I'm just trying to relate it to the real world, I mean, if you are offering your racehorse or dog fot stud, the ad goes in the papper, and has absolutely no effect on the animal until it gets 'accepted'. So it makes sense you need the energy to do the breeding, it's just hard to maeuver around putting them up and down all the time when there might be an easier way of thinking about it.

Err, you do know that if your pet is busy (With arena, explore, or other wise) they can't perform right? How would it be RL-like if they're busy with something, but they can still 'perform'?

Anyways, i like Saccharissa's suggestion on hiding the offer if they pet is busy, though not sure how it'll be implemented.

Ps. I'm not sure what you (Saccharissa) mean for tour first post "Second one I fully support - an easier information flow is always better.". I don't think boodles suggested anything here, but more of put forth an inquiry, of sorts, for a possible bug (which was false).

Edit: Nvm, seemed to have glossed over her second post. Yeah, it can be hard to see, if you aren't paying attention, but usually when you see your child having a, or more, degen, you'd usually look at the parents degen. It's similar to when you're breeding, you'd look at the parents genes to get an idea of what the expect child would have, so I think it's more of you glossed over it (like what I did :P) then missed information, though stars would definitely be more visible then text.

It shouldn't be so hard, I think the gist would be telling to code to check if (pet's energy)=10 then show(add) else hide(add)

Different in execution than the original suggestion, but with the same result: not having to remove and re-add your breeding add every time the pet spends energy on not-breeding.

Exactly, So then, there are the two suggestions lol. 

#1. Sugested visual aid to see degen and power on pet's profile page.

#2. Suggested function (possibly hide) available breeding when pet has no energy so offering and cancelling is not required to use the pet.