Reptile Breeder 'Standard'
This article is now outdated. The proposed changes are no longer going ahead.
Re-thinking Enclosures
This is a proposal of changing the entire room/enclosure/habitat system to make it more intuitive, efficient and streamlined. The new system will be visually more intuitive, while retaining alot of the mechanics of the original (existing) system of assignment. The intention would be to make the ownership of individual enclosures and tubs obsolete, and instead assign reptiles to "psuedo" enclosures/tubs via the reptile's profiles (or via the reptile room using mass action).
The current system functions as so:
- Purchase reptile/s
- Purchase an enclosure
- Assign that enclosure to a room when viewing enclosure
- Customise that enclosure's habitat when viewing enclosure
- Assign reptile/s to that enclosure via that enclosure screen
The new proposed system of housing a reptile would require the following sequence:
- Purchase reptile/s
- Assign reptile to an individual enclosure via reptile's profile page
- Customise assigned enclosure via reptile's profile page
As you can see, the sequence would be significantly shortened when housing a reptile.
Note that the last two actions in the above sequence will be achievable via the breeder's reptile room as a mass action. The cost of assigning each reptile to an enclosure would still infer a cost based on the reptile's space requirement.
What about racks?
The rack system would see a similar overhaul, where each reptile is assigned to a rack via a dropdown select menu on the reptile's profile page, however a player must own one or a number of racks, allowing a reptile to be assigned to them. This differs from enclosures, as you won't need to own individual enclosures/tubs to be able to assign reptiles to them. There would be no enclosures or [rack] tubs to view or clean, or assign reptiles to. Instead, when viewing a rack, it would display all the reptiles assigned to that rack, instead of unique tubs (which currently need to be viewed individually to see which reptiles are assigned). Racks will still be limited to allowing reptiles of a certain space requirement to be assigned, much like the older/current system.
We feel a shift away from the seemingly clunky and convuluted enclosure management of today would allow more focus into breeding projects from the massive array of reptile species in the game. This overhaul would also offer a colossal improvement of page load times, freeing up that time for players to focus on their actual reptiles, while still offering a certain degree of housing management.
This is the idea, anyway. TL;DR?
Nothing is changing right now. Proposal is: Enclosures/tubs gone, racks and room space remain plus some more snazzy awesome mechanics in place of them. We will post more details once we've received the first
wave of feedback!