Breeding Franchise Animals?? How do you organise your breeding programs?

[DigitalMelody]

How do you go about franchise breeding animals. Do you store your perfect animals in a new zoo and use a Google spreadsheet to keep records? Do you burn a perfect genetic code into your stored gene pool by breeding perfect males with loads of females? Why is there not loads of 100% 100% longevity and size animals on the stock market to add to your gene pool if you breed your animals like this? What do you do?

[DigitalMelody]

The way i'm doing it is starting a new zoo for storage purposes because every inch of the trade centre is needed for breeding or trading the current species i'm working on. I breed the animals up to 100% longevity and size so I have a pool of animals to breed from . Then i keep one perfect male and try to breed this one with loads of females so I start with a genetic code I can manipulate. If I have a sibling male with an identical genetic code I store them in a new zoo. With the format "1 name and the genetic code i.e. 1 Goldie ad ab cd bc db ac|ad dc ba da cd ba". Then I log them in a google spreadsheet. Then I try to breed more perfect animals to store in my species storage zoo. The 1 before the name is so is I sort the storage zoo by name, all the perfect animals come up first (sometimes I put 100 100 83 100 animals in there too for back up, but don't log them. If i buy perfect animals for breeding or any new animal not from my zoo I name them with a "&" because that comes up first in the zoo name listing sorting and I know to breed them. I just keep breeding and storing until the codes match up and my spreadsheet tells me the matches.

I'm I over complicating this or do other people have a better system that works? What do you do? The genes and breeding is VERY complicated but this is the best method I've come up with so far.

[DigitalMelody]

If anybody finds this useful, tell me and I'll upload my google spreadsheet to the cloud for you to use if you wish. Its not by any means in beta but it does work. I find it very useful for finding out how many perfect animal I have stored with EXACTLY THE SAME GENE CODE. lol. I'm like yeah another perfect animal, oh well maybe not so good. I've just made more clones. lol

[DigitalMelody]

I would just like to add if people are protecting how they breed animals. The stock market, if it sold better quality animals, for more logical prices, would benefit everyone because it would have a better gene pool to buy from in order to breed better animals. Everyone would benefit. Is that not a great idea. More credits better animals. :D

[grampers62]

For my own purposes I tend to keep a good breeding pair in trade when I've worked on breeding a species. As for the actual breeding I simply use a breeding zoo with multiple habitats so that I can mix and match breeding pairs to get high quality stock. That stock stays in that zoo till needed. No spreadsheets or detailed family trees, just good labels on the zoos to say what's in it. Of course on will have a difficult time finding those 100% stats on the market as many players will sell their lesser stock and keep the better.

[DigitalMelody]

At present the animal stock market seems crazy to me. Everyone sells anything at 10000 credits. Can you imagine going on the stock market and buying a perfect animal that perfectly fits your zoo species code and you being able to breed perfect animals from that zoo? That is the animal that should be online for 10000 credits. Maybe people just don't understand the breeding codes! I don't understand the current animal stock market prices!

[DigitalMelody]

Originally posted by grampers62:

For my own purposes I tend to keep a good breeding pair in trade when I've worked on breeding a species. As for the actual breeding I simply use a breeding zoo with multiple habitats so that I can mix and match breeding pairs to get high quality stock. That stock stays in that zoo till needed. No spreadsheets or detailed family trees, just good labels on the zoos to say what's in it. Of course on will have a difficult time finding those 100% stats on the market as many players will sell their lesser stock and keep the better.

So you start a new zoo when you start a new species, breed them up in that zoo and ship them into your "fancy working creative zoo"? Then if you need to trade or breed a species you go back to its.

Yes the market is odd, that's why i started this post, the quality or sanity of the stock market seems peculiar. Either people need to learn more about how to organise better breeding programs or their just winging it. lol Or the other option is the stock market stops working if people stop playing and there is not enough players to keep the game-play working.

[DigitalMelody]

Originally posted by DigitalMelody:

Originally posted by grampers62:

For my own purposes I tend to keep a good breeding pair in trade when I've worked on breeding a species. As for the actual breeding I simply use a breeding zoo with multiple habitats so that I can mix and match breeding pairs to get high quality stock. That stock stays in that zoo till needed. No spreadsheets or detailed family trees, just good labels on the zoos to say what's in it. Of course on will have a difficult time finding those 100% stats on the market as many players will sell their lesser stock and keep the better.

So you start a new zoo when you start a new species, breed them up in that zoo and ship them into your "fancy working creative zoo"? Then if you need to trade or breed a species you go back to its.

Yes the market is odd, that's why i started this post, the quality or sanity of the stock market seems peculiar. Either people need to learn more about how to organise better breeding programs or their just winging it. lol

Do you upload blueprints for your breeding/storage zoos and if you do where can i find them? Don't upload with the boundary because its an incredible pain to place, just upload the building, plants, habitat items etc as a building and if the barriers are complex add them as extra empty flat blueprints that I can place then, drag over to the habitat area I need them. i.e. upload the barriers separably so I can drag it over the building/habitat storage zones.

[DigitalMelody]

I've just spend 2 days making a zoo to store timber wolves and Himalayan Brown Bears and I couldn't find any mass storage options. Also I work of a grid from the entrance and all the habitats were very beautiful curvy huge habitats. It would be great if people uploaded some mass storage buildings I could just place and put barrier around.

[Varick]

Originally posted by DigitalMelody:

Originally posted by DigitalMelody:

So you start a new zoo when you start a new species, breed them up in that zoo and ship them into your "fancy working creative zoo"? Then if you need to trade or breed a species you go back to its.

Yes the market is odd, that's why i started this post, the quality or sanity of the stock market seems peculiar. Either people need to learn more about how to organise better breeding programs or their just winging it. lol

Do you upload blueprints for your breeding/storage zoos and if you do where can i find them? Don't upload with the boundary because its an incredible pain to place, just upload the building, plants, habitat items etc as a building and if the barriers are complex add them as extra empty flat blueprints that I can place then, drag over to the habitat area I need them. i.e. upload the barriers separably so I can drag it over the building/habitat storage zones.

This is an early workshop item that I still find useful. Barriers are made after placement.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1937359669

[DigitalMelody]

Originally posted by grampers62:

For my own purposes I tend to keep a good breeding pair in trade when I've worked on breeding a species. As for the actual breeding I simply use a breeding zoo with multiple habitats so that I can mix and match breeding pairs to get high quality stock. That stock stays in that zoo till needed. No spreadsheets or detailed family trees, just good labels on the zoos to say what's in it. Of course on will have a difficult time finding those 100% stats on the market as many players will sell their lesser stock and keep the better.

How can you tell if you don't just have a load of clones saved up in storage then?

[DigitalMelody]

Originally posted by chasbar:

I think if you really want to produce animals that are perfect, you probably need to focus on that species rather than breeding all species. It would help to have several families of the species and use compare mates to try and only breed animals that are shown to have good outcomes. Sometimes I get few females and end up having to start over with females from the market which tend to have poor stats.

I have about 40 animals of the same species saved up in storage zoos with 100% on both longevity and size. I then replace them with perfect animals with different gene codes and try to find perfect animals that breed perfect animals.

[Noki_49]

I guess I'm more of a casual Franchise player. While I do what I can to breed healthy animals to trade and keep, I also enjoy the community aspect of Franchise. When I do adopt someone's animal from the auction, I do so knowing that I am going to give this pixelated computer code the best artificial life I can give it! Huge, beautiful habitats, the best food, fully trained vets and keepers to tend to them, and a home for life. I hope the animals I put up find a good home. It's a game - I'm having fun with it!
I have many little zoos, based on location - biome and continent. I trade or release all the males born in my zoos, once they mature, and buy breeding males off the auction, except for a few rare instances. I've found this to be the simplest way to avoid inbreeding. I like to store 3 to 4 females of each species, for breeding. Extra females I will auction off or release. With at least 3, I have a better chance of finding a good pairing when I come across a high stat male in the auction house.
I don't keep spreadsheets, but I do have a naming system that works for me. I take the names of the father and mother to create a middle name of sorts. I can tell who's who at a quick glance. I find this helpful when I am creating new herds or families - I will keep one sister and auction off the other sisters from the same mother. For the most part, I like to keep the family blood lines moving.
I don't really keep track of gene codes as I like to utilize the compare mates function to find the best pairings.
When it comes to pricing, I try to find that sweet spot of not too expensive, but not too cheap. Friendly competitive prices help to keep a species profitable enough for others to breed and ensure that other players can reasonably afford new animals. However, I do have "sales" now and then, especially when my trade center is getting full.

[Something]

I just start with the animals that breed faster like Indian Peafowls and put the best offspring into another habitat or the Animal Trade Centre for later and release/trade the other offspring that had worse genes. I would make sure the animals don't inbreed if you are trying to get better genes for animals and I would get animals that have a higher longevity and size gene on the animal market.

[Something]

Originally posted by ...:

I just start with the animals that breed faster like Indian Peafowls and put the best offspring into another habitat or the Animal Trade Centre for later and release/trade the other offspring that had worse genes. I would make sure the animals don't inbreed if you are trying to get better genes for animals and I would get animals that have a higher longevity and size gene on the animal market.

Then I'd just start getting animals that are worth more and released for lots of cc

[grampers62]

Originally posted by DigitalMelody:

Originally posted by grampers62:

For my own purposes I tend to keep a good breeding pair in trade when I've worked on breeding a species. As for the actual breeding I simply use a breeding zoo with multiple habitats so that I can mix and match breeding pairs to get high quality stock. That stock stays in that zoo till needed. No spreadsheets or detailed family trees, just good labels on the zoos to say what's in it. Of course on will have a difficult time finding those 100% stats on the market as many players will sell their lesser stock and keep the better.

How can you tell if you don't just have a load of clones saved up in storage then?

That's the reason for a breeding zoo with multiple breeding pens. One can add A new animal occasionally to refresh the stock. But making good use of the compare mates tool will help prevent the stagnant stats and inbreeding that causes issues as well.
It's also worth mentioning that often two lesser rated animals can produce top rate animals more often that two 100% animals so being selective on breeding is a must.