TL;DR - I have an overwhelming amount of support for this idea, but there are bits and pieces that I don't support or have alternate suggestions for.
If the mutation thing got applied, then I personally think that to maintain rarity and value in these dragons, they should be something only available through a small chance. Otherwise richer players will exploit this to mass-create mutated dragons and over a relatively short amount of time (I imagine within a few months) mutated dragons will be as common as ever. I'd ideally like to see this mutation thing be the "new gen1" if you will, something that takes it's sweet time losing it's rarity and high value, but to some extent always maintains a stable market and value, just like gen1's have done over these past few years on FR.
There is one thing, however, that I want to mention. I really love this addition that foff mentioned:
Or if Cuckoos were bred with other cuckoos, their breed pool could be between two randomized breeds, they could have a randomized but high chance of the eggs they lay dying, or something like that. Whatever staff wanted. I personally prefer foff's suggestion, though. I feel like this distinction is incredibly important to maintain their value as a rare breed, which would probably be of the Limited status with Imps or Uncommon depending on what the staff prefer.
More specifically, some things I like: Lore-wise, I feel like it's best that they have something to do with the chance for users to find unhatched eggs and hatch gen1s, like you said. So personally I think them having a chance of replacing eggs would be the best thing. I like the idea of a % being applied to the whole nest so that the likelihood increases with smaller nests, but there's still a chance of lots of eggs being "mutated" or "stolen" or whatever the lore ends up being implemented. It gives incentive to attach it to any kind of nest, and I think that's pretty important. I also love that it gives users a reason to enjoy 1 or 2 egg nests, which I think the vast majority of the time users are pretty disappointed by.
As for the visual representation, I think replacing an egg in the nest with "an unhatched cuckoo egg" art piece would be great. It could also add an item that users could find throughout the game the ways other unhatched eggs are found, lore-wise being stated as eggs that were placed in Beastclan nests and the like.
Overall, fantastic ideas! I really hope something like this ends up added to FR in the future!
Mutation Mechanics
I support everything in this section save for this bit:Fishbone wrote:
Perhaps the effect could be stackable? (using more mutagen items on a nest increases the chance of mutations?)
If the mutation thing got applied, then I personally think that to maintain rarity and value in these dragons, they should be something only available through a small chance. Otherwise richer players will exploit this to mass-create mutated dragons and over a relatively short amount of time (I imagine within a few months) mutated dragons will be as common as ever. I'd ideally like to see this mutation thing be the "new gen1" if you will, something that takes it's sweet time losing it's rarity and high value, but to some extent always maintains a stable market and value, just like gen1's have done over these past few years on FR.
Cuckoos
I love this concept, I love the idea of only getting a breed through an item being introduced, and I even love the name and don't see why it wouldn't be a good one to name such a breed - it fits! hahaThere is one thing, however, that I want to mention. I really love this addition that foff mentioned:
foff wrote:
In addition, this MUTANT cannot be bred with another MUTANT, but can breed with any other dragons and produce a non-MUTANT offspring.
Or if Cuckoos were bred with other cuckoos, their breed pool could be between two randomized breeds, they could have a randomized but high chance of the eggs they lay dying, or something like that. Whatever staff wanted. I personally prefer foff's suggestion, though. I feel like this distinction is incredibly important to maintain their value as a rare breed, which would probably be of the Limited status with Imps or Uncommon depending on what the staff prefer.
More specifically, some things I like: Lore-wise, I feel like it's best that they have something to do with the chance for users to find unhatched eggs and hatch gen1s, like you said. So personally I think them having a chance of replacing eggs would be the best thing. I like the idea of a % being applied to the whole nest so that the likelihood increases with smaller nests, but there's still a chance of lots of eggs being "mutated" or "stolen" or whatever the lore ends up being implemented. It gives incentive to attach it to any kind of nest, and I think that's pretty important. I also love that it gives users a reason to enjoy 1 or 2 egg nests, which I think the vast majority of the time users are pretty disappointed by.
As for the visual representation, I think replacing an egg in the nest with "an unhatched cuckoo egg" art piece would be great. It could also add an item that users could find throughout the game the ways other unhatched eggs are found, lore-wise being stated as eggs that were placed in Beastclan nests and the like.
Overall, fantastic ideas! I really hope something like this ends up added to FR in the future!