Egg Thievery

[Lemurian1972]

Right now gathering Pal Eggs is a far too easy route to power. Even with incubation timers, a player with a flying mount has a ticket to far more and more powerful Pals far more easily than someone trying to catch them on the ground.

I think there are a few things they could implement to make the Egg game more complex.

Rescue Timers- Currently eggs can just sit forever until you're ready to hatch them. I think if they had a timer like perishable foods it would make sense. You have to get them from the nest where they're comfy into an incubator in a timely fashion or they expire.

Devoted Parents- Currently Pals just lay their eggs and leave. I think snatching an egg should trigger something like the Wanted timer, where the egg's angry relatives chase you down, even appearing at your base and trying to take the egg back. To mitigate the game could employ an improvement on the barebones stealth mechanic we have, allowing a player to sneak up and take an egg and get away clean.

Egg Snatching Tech- In conjunction with the above changes, I think it would be cool if more eggs are in complicated environments, like the eggs on the volcano island. It would be great to have to dig up eggs with a shovel, or pick them out of the ice carefully, or use a specialized attachment to your grapple gun to Yoink them from the lava or deep inside a rock burrow.

[_ScorpioN_]

Genious and smart! I agree. I confess that I have been discouraged with the game because of these facilities involving eggs and mating. I keep imagining PvP in the near future where everyone will have everything at their fingertips in a very easy way, without any challenge.