Tigons

For the past few weeks, a striped scoundrel has weaseled his way into the hearts of your lionesses - and now he's trying his moves on them!

That's right, we're excited to announce that the Tigon hybrid is finally here!

How to Breed
Tigons will crop up in a similar fashion to Leopons. They can be bred very rarely as a First Generation Hybrid where your lioness has wandered off and had an encounter with a tiger. The use of Cotton Root Bark to induce a miscarriage, as well as giving your lioness a GMO Cow before attempting to breed, will increase the chances of breeding a mutation - which now includes Tigons.

They can be bred from any possible pairings between your lioness and a stud.

All First Generation Tigons will be bred with the same appearance as above. White Undersides is a custom marking available to apply in the Oasis, while Mottled Stripes is the Tigon-exclusive hybrid marking! It functions exactly the same as Mottled Rosette, thus it cannot appear in RMAs, and has a low chance of passing down to offspring. Mottled Stripes will only be available in slot 8.

Flirtatious Felines
A new explore encounter has been added which has a dynamic option attached to it. Most of the time, you will only be able to [Observe] the encounter, but sometimes a green button will show up allowing you to [Arrange a Date (!)].

Arranging a date between your lioness and the tiger will enable a boost on your account.

The encounter boost works like this:
Normal item and mutation chances roll as they should, and then at the end the encounter boost rolls a further check to give one last chance (1 in 150) of rolling a Tigon. If another mutation was rolled instead of Tigon, and the encounter boost succeeds, it will overwrite the other mutation.

* This boost ONLY applies to your NEXT breeding to one of your own pride members - you cannot stud out the boost.
* Once the boost has been used, you can go back to explore and assuming you find the green button again, you can have the boost re-applied.
* A banner appears on your den page right at the top to show that you have the boost applied.

This boost will only be available until 30th November 2018, after which time the button will be removed and the encounter will remain until the end of the year along with the other tiger encounters.

Harassment and Unsolicited Messages
Since this is a big event, if you are lucky enough to be one of the first to breed a Tigon, you may receive a lot of messages asking for breedings or to purchase it. Please know that you should not feel forced to do anything that you don't want to do with your Tigon, and you are more than welcome to report any messages that are unsolicited messages, or messages of a harassing nature.

Small Update
* The Female ID text input in the Scrying Stone has been widened to allow for the longer IDs that lions have.

This is just a note to let you know that the new Mottled Stripes marking temporarily will only show up on Tigons. It will be updated for all other lions on Friday.