The Great Egg Debacle

[Murasaki]

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take it anymore.

In game, Chickens lay an egg every .9 days. Raw, it provides .25 nutrition.
Emu and ostrich lay an egg every EIGHTEEN (18) DAYS. Emu and ostrich eggs, raw, provide .25 nutrition.

Emu and ostrich eggs, IRL, are over TEN TIMES the mass of an average chicken egg, and speaking from experience, are at least as nutritious, by the ounce. Furthermore, you can ride the adult birds and joust with them, which I have thus far never been able to do with chickens.

This seems like a pretty big oversight considering big wild birds are viable to tame and ranch. Their eggs should be a great long wait, big reward alternative to the ludicrous invasion force that is chicken ranching.

[AlexMBrennan]

This seems like a pretty big oversight

It's also a lot easier if you don't have to worry about a "9/10th leftover egg" after making a meal that requires only 0.25 meat/animal product nutrition...

[Elementium]

It's not the average chicken anymore, it's the rimchikens ! that why they have a superior production !!

[Murasaki]

All joking aside and to be clear, I'm not complaining about the production rate, that is absolutely realistic. My problem is that great birds make eggs that are many, many times larger than chicken eggs and should afford substantially more nutrition as a result- and from a game balance position, this makes them more viable as livestock when set against their much slower gestation rate.

[Overeagerdragon]

I would like to note that you have chickens for the eggs and you tame bigger birds and HATCH their eggs to get a decent meat/leather farm (seeing as butchered chickens ONLY yield meat and butchered non-chickens ALSO yield leather)

[Murasaki]

Originally posted by overeagerdragon:

I would like to note that you have chickens for the eggs and you tame bigger birds and HATCH their eggs to get a decent meat/leather farm (seeing as butchered chickens ONLY yield meat and butchered non-chickens ALSO yield leather)

A very good point, and it might be more worthwhile if they didn't mature so much more slowly than chickens, but still valid. Nevertheless, the discrepancy in the value of eggs seems a little silly. Have you ever seen an ostrich egg? It's bigger than a baby's head.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Maybe Rim Ostriches/Emus start out smaller than their Earth counterparts. Hence the longer growing period to adulthood and also the smaller eggs that match up with chickens.

[Murasaki]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Maybe Rim Ostriches/Emus start out smaller than their Earth counterparts. Hence the longer growing period to adulthood and also the smaller eggs that match up with chickens.

Pretty convenient, there.