So I just got another idea. =|; I get all my ideas at 6am when I'm super-tired, it seems.
I'm not...sure what people and especially the staff think of this. But Shrewdie just said in my other suggestion topic that she doesn't like doing Chaos Draught litters since she doesn't know then what we want, so I wondered... can we maybe make something which would at least let the staff know what we are looking for in a breeding? Maybe something like that:
"In the entrace hall of the Breeding Facility is an indoor fountain. Sometimes, the couples coming to this place throw a few Keystones into the water, praying for their offspring to become healthy and beautiful."
How it would work:
- You pay a small KS sum (10-15KS or so?) on top of the normal breeding room fee.
- You can then state in the first post of your breeding one thing you definitely hope to get from the breeding. So things like "I really want one baby to have a blue body color!" "I really hope for a wing gradient!" "I totally would love it if a Lucain pup would get a surprise minimark!" "I really don't want only boys or only girls, but at least one female would be so nice because my Paragon want a daughter!" "I so hope that out of all the minimarks on my Cain, the Mudpaw will end up on a baby for sure!" "With so many pets in the pen having Celestial, the parents wish that at least one of their babies is more unique than the rest of the family and that marking doesn't get passed on."
- You cannot wish for anything that a potion could do (so no wishing for all-female litters, for example), things that cannot normally happen in a breeding (like a specific marking appearing that neither parent has) and for rare things like albinos.
- No wishes which would affect all babies (so no "I wish all my babies would get Ancient!") since the staff might then run out of ideas in huge litters or litters with limited color options.
- As this is a wishing well, there is no guarantee that your wish will come true. It's a way to tell whoever does your breeding what you hope for, not to demand it, so that no one of the staff feels ordered around or limited in their creativity.
It's basically something I thought would be nice for plot breedings where you just pray that you will get the baby with that certain marking or wing-type for your plot. I know I had to breed couples more than once because I needed a certain marking or a combination of boys and girls for my plot. And we can't have potions for everything and the staff always seems to want to please us, so I found the thought kinda nice. However, I also understand that breedings are meant to be somewhat random... so I'm not sure if this idea is something people would like to see.