Inbreeding Question

[SpiffyTacoSauce]

So it may be because I'm super tired and not thinking straight, but is there anyway to prevent constant inbreeding?

For example, I've been breeding Bengal Tigers lately for no real reason. But obviously after mom and pop have their litter, if those litter breed, it's inbreeding. So have to get either a new mom or pop for one of the little ones.

Now I have a second small habitat to breed with, then use one of those litter to breed with the other habitats litter. But then -their- kids will be inbreeding.

Is there something stupid and simple that I'm missing or is it pretty much every generation or every other generation you have to adopt a new mom/pop, or just continuously have two habitats going to combine?

[MrHappy]

No I don't think you're being stupid. I think it's an intentionally tricky part of the game to work out but therein is the challenge. Real zoo's have to control this stuff for real.

In the game, inbreeding won't hurt the animals but they will be worth less and with lower stats.

With species which have more than one female in the habitat, such as Elephants or Lemurs, simply put the mother on contraceptives after the babies arrive, this will mean the male has to mate with an alternative female. Then you have babies being born from different gene pools and your future mating should go well. Some inbreeding will happen though for sure.

With species that have a single male and a single female like your Tigers, Best you can do is sell all cubs and when your parents get old, save your best tiger cub, buy him or her a mate and release your old adults to the wild.

[XrystalBelle]

If I am just breeding for release to wild and cash I don't worry about it so much. When I get a good gene stock I put them to one side for breeding stock making sure I have 1 or two unrelated pairs that can breed. I trade or release all but the best and keep a male and female from each family group and intermingle them with other zoos ( as they do in real life ) to produce better offspring. Adding fresh stock to keep things fresh.

In multiple male/female breeding pens I put alternating pairs on contraceptives so I get alternate family groups born at the same time so that they can breed with each other in the next generation, bringing in alternative parents for the next generation of breeding stock.

It's harder to control in a zoo with tons of different animals so I tend to have specialist breeding zoos concentrating on a few animals at a time with the bigger zoos breeding to keep the guests happy with the little babies. Again keeping the best for future breeding.

[Banisha]

@ XrystalBelle

Do you have a separate franchise zoo with those breeding pens?

[Tonkan]

Just keep them in trade center and out them into the zoo later

[XrystalBelle]

Originally posted by Banisha:

@ XrystalBelle

Do you have a separate franchise zoo with those breeding pens?

I have several zoos for different continent/biome setups and if I want to concentrate on breeding a specific set of animals I just create a new zoo. I don't worry about money once they are all set up but it can help if I decide to build an additional habitat because the children are all too good to give away without at least one or two breeding cycles before trading them out.

Here is one I set up not long after release.It houses my original peafowl breeding groups.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2014656985

[The Classy Alien]

this is a very common problem in real zoos, they constantly need new bloodlines, but in case of this game, the way i solve it is as soon as i see something has given birth i go to the zoo menu, look up the born animal and instantly give it contraception so that you already prevent it from inbreeding.

[Banisha]

@ XrystalBelle

Thank you. I'll keep that in mind ;)

@ The classy alien

I do that also, but at a certain point when I have several animals, I'm occupied doing this and can't play the game anymore, because I've to pause constantly.

[MrHappy]

Be careful with breeding pens, it is a great way to keep a good gene pool but all of the other pens in your zoo will have to pay for the breeding pens (if you're breeding pens are not accessible to the guests).

[The Classy Alien]

also also, to give you a bit more time to react you can slow down animal aging in the game options menu, put it at x5 to slow it down 5 times for example. it gives you 5 times more time to respond, and things slow down a lot more, so you aren't constantly doing that. i put it at x5 and it plays a lot more relaxed

[XrystalBelle]

Originally posted by MrHappy:

Be careful with breeding pens, it is a great way to keep a good gene pool but all of the other pens in your zoo will have to pay for the breeding pens (if you're breeding pens are not accessible to the guests).

Also, guests will only donate once per animal. The babies help keep the interest up but variety can boost the zoos intake as well as shops. So deciding on a breeding zoo with no other animals with very little money to offset the costs, or adding things like exhibits or random releasable animals may help bring the profit margin up.

[ONE MAN ARMY]

You need to breed some so you can get cc otherwise open a farming zoo n farm cc so you can buy animals for your main zoo. Sometimes though I found it easiest to focus on breeding only 1 high end animal for cc so you have cc to replenish your other exhibits.

[XrystalBelle]

Originally posted by ONE MAN ARMY:

You need to breed some so you can get cc otherwise open a farming zoo n farm cc so you can buy animals for your main zoo. Sometimes though I found it easiest to focus on breeding only 1 high end animal for cc so you have cc to replenish your other exhibits.

Yep, this is usually how I do it. Each zoo will have one or two animals that I monitor with the other animals. Deciding which animal in which zoo for me is based on animals per continent.biome ratio. I may have 1 animal in multiple zoos because of their multiple zone options but not all of them will be breeding monitored. Any other animal in that zoo are just trimmed down when they get over crowded. At that point I select the best unrelated pairs and release all the others or trade those that aren't inbred or needed for he next generation.

[SpiffyTacoSauce]

Thanks guys <3