Regarding Valentine's Day and Breeding

[Wrexir]

Dear Devs,

I'd just like to say that my tribe has really enjoyed the Valentine's Day event, it gave some rejuvination to some members who had been a little bored with the game. Beyond that I'd like to say that it was very enjoyable to be able to realistically breed dinos without needing to sit there waiting for the egg and then sit there hand feeding for hours on end. This led me to have a few thoughts:

1. Why not have a lunar cycle / breeding season for dino breeding every few weeks? Every 21 days there is a 24-48 hour period where breeding and mating become super efficient and effective. This has the benefit that it would make breeding easier on smaller / begginning tribes and that larger / mature tribes can't just out farm the resources to get / stay a head of everyone else.

2. If not that how about easing up on the breeding periods. I get that it should probably take a giga a while to mature, but I don't think anyone agrees with having to had feed a dodo for 2 hours. This Valentine's Day event showed me at least how much fun it can be to breed dinos, whereas before I thought it a bit of a waste of time.

3. If not that I think I remembe y'all talking about something akin to kibble for breeding in one of your Q&A sessions. Any update on that.

[AsclepianWisdom]

I'm on ark now but cannot see what's supposed to be special about valentine's day?I only saw there is an event but nothing saying WHAT it is?

[Leja_mit_Aluhut]

Yes Event was a nice idea. But i did make more then 60 eggs to get this chocolate and then it will spoil in 24h :( So no use for it, dont think i have time to tame that what i wanted to tame easier with it (female Giga or female Quetz)
Only good thing is that we spared about 1 day on Giga and Quetzbabies. But this chocolate......

Oh one thing i forget: Event started when many people in Europe go to sleep and did end (maybe, not happen yet) close after people in Europe come home after work! Not a good timing for Europe.

[tanek]

引用自 AsclepianWisdom：

I'm on ark now but cannot see what's supposed to be special about valentine's day?I only saw there is an event but nothing saying WHAT it is?

From the patch notes:

* Added ♥ ARK Valentine's Day Event ♥, which will run until 5pm EST Monday. Get new "Box o' Chocolates" Item randomly dropped by mating tamed Dinos, eating it will insta restore full HP, or knock 40% off a Dino's Tame Bar (Remote Use). Also during the Event, 2x Mating/Mateboost Range, 3x Mating Speed/Mating Recovery, 3x Baby/Egg Maturation Speed, 1/3rd Baby Food Consumption!

Sounds great for anyone who could participate. :) Since I am on unofficial, it did not start until late last night, and it ends before the workday does today, I'm out of luck. Then again, we can always up the breeding times and whatnot on the server for our own event. (We do miss out on the chocolates, but, having popped out of a dino after mating, those sound questionable anyway. ;) )

[Wrexir]

I'm not so much interested in the use of the box o taming, so much as the breeding. We have kibble to make taming more convient.

[Bloodtype]

I also really enjoyed the event for 2 reasons. First, it didn't provoke warfare or raiding. There were no drops to fight over. Second, it got me to try breeding for the first time. Which was actually pretty fun and successful, though I'll certainly not be doing it again anytime soon with the rates back to normal. Maybe in the future, the devs might add items or dinos that improve breeding rates. Perhaps actual incubating items to increase incubation times. Feel free to make a post in the suggestions tab @OP.

I really enjoyed this event.

[David]

1 THING DEVS. REFRIGERATED TROUGHS.

[Wrexir]

I straight up didn't realize that there was a suggestions forum.

[Tanchyon]

How do you feel about it now that you are going to lose those chocolates momentarily?

[New]

I actually like this a lot! Could add depth to the game with small stuctures around the world that, when the moon is between them, would allow for faster breeding for like maybe 7 in game days or something. little boosts like that. Maybe a day or two real world time. idk

[Zhaedri]

Really? Lame.

I'd really like to see a lot more clear communication from the development team regarding player concerns and ninja nerfs etc.

I was busy all V-Day and day after, so I missed the event (nevermind that the server I play on only updates on major version changes). Would be nice if we got to keep our seasonal stuff.

[Chubbdizzle]

Can you not hijack the thread. We (my tribe) enjoyed the event immensly. I agree with some form of monthly/yearly cycle to increase breeding times.

[Iron]

I guess the Valentine's event is a testing phase for the breeding mechanics phase 2, where breeding times may vary at certain times of day/week/month/year. It would be cool though and a nice implementation

[Chop]

I know they will be introducing something to help speed up incubation time when they release the tech tier. they might also be releasing something for increased baby growth rate as well, who knows

[Chubbdizzle]

Tech tier, do you have a link I can read or elaborate.