Or you could earn the title "Fossil Collector" and it could be linked to the Fossil Sylesti sables with the selected one being on a podium or stand.

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH idea. Each player is only aloud to have one of each kind of fossil. Now if they want to breed their fossils and make more, like in my first post, they would have to level the Fossil Sylesti all the way up and then max their stats out to breed. Then the would have to chose from a pool of Other Maxed out fossils. Now these Fossil Sylesti's are special, they can breed with any species because who are we to say what each gender would look like LOL. Buuuuuuuut Your fossils can only breed once so you have to choose very very wisely, and since they are in a time were the majority would die and only the strong survive they would breed 3, and once they grow up u get to keep one and the other two get put into an "extinct animal conservation" (like a national park) this could also be where you can collect some of the bones or ingredients to make them. This also gives other players the chance to interact with other extinct hybrids.

Tell me if this gets your brain working

So I am not sure how I feel about this, considering some players such as myself prefer to collect a certain type of species that we prefer. I wouldn't want my fossil species to breed to any sylesti considering not only would a ton of new species have to be drawn for each crossbred pair, and that would look strange in the lineage, but the offspring wouldn't seem as unique and fossilized as the parent to me.

I also get very attached to my pets, and having to give up a parent in breeding would be very upsetting for me :/ I probably just wouldn't breed them

I also wouldn't want my pet to be in a random gene pool of breeders, especially if it could only breed once! But I do think the only one breeding thing is a good idea... Just not the capped stats prior to it. (Considering capped stats are acquired by breeding down generations)

But I like the idea of a nature reserve park, in a different light.
Some people might want to boot their fossil pets. If they do this, they could be shifted to the nature reserve and frozen in chunks of amber where you could see them and their original owners, but could not buy or take them. Perhaps you could reclaim them for a number of diamonds, like normal pets.

These amber chunks could be "polished," like nurturing, allowing you to possibly obtain bones and items of those sorts. I don't think owned pets should have the option of nurturing, but I think you should (and not just with these, but all species) be able to "clean the stall" for scales, essence, or in this case, bones.

Not meaning to bash your ideas so sorry if I did! o: I just figured I should be honest aha

that's a good point... I didn't mean it like that for the breeding, but yeah I take that idea back. The coding alone for that idea scares me. "shivers"

I do love your amber reserve park idea though, and everything after that. Especially the cleaning the stables idea!!!! The owners could even be displayed as excavator that discovered its bones at an archaeologist dig. (like in a wax statue form).

Your not bashing me, on the contrary I like that you are speaking your mind. Not many people nowadays do.

Okay :) So the fossil dig sounds fun! But if that were to become a feature I think it would need a unique Sylestia touch~
- Maybe you could only dig up to five times a day
- If you don't get a bone or fossil part, you get some amount of gold (like a small amount, when battling)
- Only people with an owned fossil pet can enter, because there will be other monsters in there (like the vorkids) that can only be battled with fossil pets, and to advance to another digging spot you have to battle
- You could buy shovel upgrades with diamonds, but they never run out. Like, each upgrade adds a 10% chance of finding a bone or fossil part, and each upgrade costs 180 diamonds. (But you would have a limit on how many you could purchase, so your chances don't exceed 75%?)
- Every time your fossil pet's mana is filled (when it is the max level) It has the option to use a special ability on a dig site that ups the chances this single time of finding a bone or fossil part by 25% (and you could only use this once a day)

What do you think of those thoughts? I really hope Krin likes this idea! Though it would be a ton of work, I am sure..

I like the cap on the amount of shovel bonuses you can buy with diamonds, what if there was a gold option to buying it as well? As well as the restrictions to the amount of times players can play a day, also the fossil pets having a mana storage just for the digging. Now would the digging for these pets be just for there species bones or would other species bones be able to be found? Because if we restricted it that would keep the players from finding other species. But it would also keep the species from being over populated? Maybe the dig could be set up kinda like "Jinxie's Jamboree", granted the prizes and pictures on it would have to be changed on it, but the overall concept of it would be the same.

This is already my favorite site, if they were to add this I would become even more of a recluse.

:) I was thinking the bones they found would be completely random, if they found any. I kind of hate Jinxie's Jamboree so I would hope it wasn't anything like that... I thought more around the lines of when you find an essence? But the species would just be whatever the game chose. Like a wheel of fortune. (You wouldn't have to match three images, but you got whichever the game decided.) And the gold option to buying upgrades sounds good!

I also wonder if you might find an egg in digging sites. Maybe a site that you found by uncovering a hidden door during battle? This chance of finding would be very small. And then you have a very slim, like 0.00000089% chance of finding a cold egg underground. Somehow you could hatch his egg, maybe you have to make a special potion of healing?

OOOOOOOOOOHHHHH I like the cold egg Idea!!!!! :) And if you don't find an egg under the hidden door you find a live Fossil Sylesti and you battle it (*can not capture*) and it drops a rare genetic trait for generating a Fossil Sylesti, and this genetic trait can be added as an extra without messing with the limit counter on the generator. Kinda like a rare bonus.
Note: the trait would show up on the genes and/or mutations.

Yeah Jinxie's Jamboree isn't my favorite. But i have gotten some good essences out of it.