Breeder Inquiry! re: parent involvement in egg species

[these_balls]

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Good day, citizens of PokéLand!! (I'm still trying to invent a cutesy word for y'all)

We've got a bit of a breeding inquiry for you guys regarding the species of a pokémon based on the mother and father of crossbreeding. There had apparently been an 'official' decision that had been in play that differed from the changes stated in the F.A.Q., so we've decided to retract the rule in order to let you guys decide.


How much should the parents' species to influence the eggs' species in a breeding?'

    Option One: As per nintendo game mechanics, the eggs are 100% the mother's species.

    Option Two: The eggs are rarely the father's species, mostly the mother's (5% for father's species)

    Option Three: The eggs are uncommonly the father's species (25% for father's species)

    Option Four: The eggs have an even chance of becoming the mother's or father's species (50/50)


As usual, please leave answers, additional questions, and extra input in the comments!


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Comments

[k9tantei]

I definitely agree.

Sure there's Breeders who have it easy and go about it in a way that makes things go easily for them?

My one breeder character is a MUCH bigger headache in terms of his poke-class than my trainers. HE doesn't like working normal jobs, and he's specializing in something rare (dragons) which means it's taken almost a year for him to just get a roster, much less Breed...
so he's usually mooching off his travel partner and has done basically nothing as a Breeder besides fuss over his very small team and be (questionable) moral support for a few people. He's been too broke to buy things for himself half the time until he finally broke down and got a job for a few weeks, and the only reason he's okay on HM's is ...that he's mooching off a Trainer travel partner.

Yep. Really too easy on Breeders if they get to breed for eggs of more of their roster than just the females. ~_~;;

I also couldn't see him with a Ditto, and I don't WANT to give him a Ditto just because "oh lol he's a breeder and I'd like to be able to maybe let people bargain for eggs of 'mon he only has a male for"; I LIKE having the 'mons be treated as living things with personalities, and the non-"dragons" he has are all there for specific plot reasons. As it stands now, Dittos aren't pokemon you get for plots or because your character wants a Ditto; I'm willing to bet most of the people out there with Dittos have them as something that never actually sees any usage in posts or plots or anything except as basically egg-makers and something on their roster to justify them having eggs for species they only have males of.

Also seriously, it seems like it's a pointless rule given that the main focus of Route in actual play is CR, plots, and all, which... the "female's species only" rule isn't actually adding anything to.

[secondgrave]

> treated as living things with personalities

Yeah that's a... big thing with both of my characters. Ken loves animals and Fuu's just all over kind toward anything. They're not going to breed them like farm stock. They're both stupidly passionate to their teams--each pokemon has a place in their party and IDK, I think that's just the point of a breeder.

Being kind, raising them with care and love. Sounds derpy as a mun, but to my characters, it's everything :\

[k9tantei]

It makes a lot of sense to me. :/ As it is "which pairs would get along" is another layer of difficulty on Kuja. If you wanted to play the video games and focus on mechanics over storyline and characters, you'd...be playing the video games and not apping to Route where there's months of time passage on stuff.

And I still have the thing where IC'ly, there'd be NO logical IC reason for Kuja to want/keep a Ditto; the dragons are what he's comfortable with, and the few non-"dragons" he has are there for IC reasons, so ... yeah ...

And even though he's not a "good" person really, he's still not really going to do the video-game solution of "Well, breed for an egg that hatches female, then inbreed through that!" because ... really it's a long-running thing since the only thing he'd ever had around that wasn't "enemy/target" back home was a dragon, so he has more empathy for his critters than he does for other people, and he understands enough science to know that inbreeding's NOT a good idea.

And I don't want to get him a Ditto just because he's a Breeder, and I don't think it really adds anything to the plot/CR/etc. for Route in general to have Dittos mostly be something Breeder characters put on their roster as a necessity that serves no other IC purpose.