I like the idea, granted that it would be within my pets. It would be helpful for me because i often find myself breeding two pets solely to each other. What i think is that it could be like a filter that you could use to bind two pets together and similarly to what Mika said with her experience on the other site, there could also be a filter to separate the two pets.

Granted this would be a lot harder to do and therefore not completely improving the economy, due to the difficulty of getting filters, but i see where you're coming from. :)

IF this were an option you could choose (maybe with a philter or with a contract of some kind...) I wold support this, but as others so eloquently put it, there are a number of reasons why locking twwo pets together as soon as they breed won't work.


Worse, I honestly don't think this would solve the pages of 1g pets. Those pets are out there cause no one wants them, many have odd colors or no traits, and unless they were tamed, you can't philter a trait onto them. Sooo, those pets would STILL just sit there. This would just make the valuable pets more valuable, and the unwanted pets all the more unwanted, because stable space would be at a even higher premium than it is now, because you would need more base pets to start a project, regardless of whether they were captured or created.


Now, if the pairing was more flexible and you could create or dissolve it at will, then I can see people getting into this, even making specific lineages with this as a base feature. I don't think I would personally do it unless I had a pair I want to keep out of general breeding circulation... but for the moment, that's as easy as just not putting it up with a breeding fee, so it's not a problem.

An alternative approach would be to provide an incentive to pair up pets - perhaps increased odds at multiple offspring, improved odds of visible traits, improved statistics, etc.

Additionally, we do plan on adding like some sort of pair history where you can easily re-breed pairs you've already set/bred before.

I think even a slightly increased chance of passing along the genetic traits would make a huge incentive for people to pair up pets. This could be really cool. I also like the thought i could easily find old pairings when i look to breed, that would be nice too.