Posted by BREEDING ITEM: Nyengo Totem

jester [im autistic]
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2023-08-18 15:20:58

this suggestion has a sister suggestion! check it out here!

I know what you're all thinking. Jester, what the hell is this? Well, you guys said you wanted it after I asked Main Chat, so may I present you, the Nyengo Totem!

Nyengo means weather in Chichewa (also known as Chewa), a language commonly spoken in Malawi, and is a Bantu language. This language is also a recognized minority language in Zambia and Mozambique. This language is also known as Nyanja in Zambia, but may be called Cinyanja or Chinyanja. Now that the little lesson is over about where the name comes from, you're probably wondering why I picked a word that means weather for this totem, right? Well, let me tell you.
The Nyengo Totem would be an item that will make any seasonal, weather, or time limitations not apply to your main male's next immediate breeding. You would still have to breed the respective base's factors in order to have a chance at getting it, it would just remove non-factor requirements. Currently, this is meant for combo bases such as Temporal, Smog, or Serruria. This item would also work on any future bases or traits staff decide to add that may have time of day, seasonal, or monthly restrictions, to protect breeders of future traits if they expand this mechanic. You would apply it to the male in the breeding, just like Buffalo Scrotums or Grains of Paradise.
IT WOULD NOT REMOVE FACTOR REQUIREMENTS, JUST SEASONAL, WEATHER, OR TIME OF DAY

As an example, if you had a Smog king and wanted to breed him to an Albino lioness during the Wet Season, you could use this item, breed the two of them, and they would have a chance at making a Smog cub. If he were bred to a non-factor lioness, say, a Vandal lioness, he would not have a chance at making Smog regardless of the totem's use.

Ideally, this breeding item would be in the November Shop, in order to help give something of value there, since there's very little in that shop other than Giant Tortoises that all players can use. It would cost 125 Scarab Beetles, and would be unlocked with Tier 2 of the Shaman Shop. Though it can go in almost any shop, I just think it fits November better and the November Shop has been lacking for quite some time, especially since all applicators from the shop can be pulled from the Shaman Pit and are essentially worthless. I just don't want it to be in February because of the amount of breeding items there already.

For some fun, here's what some flavor text relating to the item could be:
Item Description
The shamans have blessed this totem! In your main male's next immediate breeding, he will ignore any monthly, seasonal, or time of day requirements for breeding. You will still need to breed two factors together in order to have a chance at breeding a combo base.

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You break the totem and a mysterious vapor fills the air! You breathe it in and you're feeling... incredibly neutral, almost like it could be any time of any day. Huh.

King's Banner
This male has monthly, seasonal, or time of day restrictions lifted for his next breeding!

As always, let me know if there's anything I can do to make this suggestion better, and if you No Support, be sure to tell me why! I think this will be a big boon to combo breeders everywhere, so I would really like to hear from my fellow combo breeders on what you guys think.




This suggestion has 196 supports and 19 NO supports.



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Edited on 18/08/23 @ 15:21:46 by jester ☘️ (#187561)

🌻 the serval
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Posted on
2023-08-18 15:35:40
It's me serval.

This is incredibly good for lots of reasons but primarily I'm attempting to graph whether combo base numbers stay the same or fall after their given month and the answer appears to be Pulsar FUCKING DIES. Absolutely useless. In terms of its 'value' it sells for far lower than it appears to price at since Pulsar cubs sit around gathering dust on TC until somebody offers a buffy. I really think this is an incredibly needed item because bases that only pass 1 month of the year, at 2% per lion so if you had 4 cubs per litter in 8 litters from a Temporal lioness she wouldnt even have 50 cubs in her lifetime so you wouldn't even hit full odds, in a game where lions do not live an entire year if you RO every day, are just... bad game design.



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Rango (#334921)


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Posted on
2023-08-18 16:16:49
This would be awesome! Had an interstellar girl that seemed to NEVER be in heat during wet season, this would be much appreciated.



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teddy- Frozen (#349583)

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Posted on
2023-08-20 16:42:06
I’m interested in trying this, as well as servals suggestion. As long as they’re hard to get and/or seasonal I can definitely see them being beneficial to the gameplay experience!



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🤎 leon | semi
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Posted on
2023-08-22 02:01:30
i would like this! love temporal but its not worth it for me. support.



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dovey 🕊️ (#90617)


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Posted on
2023-09-06 08:01:01
This is a very interesting item which I can for sure see added to Lioden and being beneficial!



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Espenfalls ✧ Spice
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Posted on
2023-11-21 17:30:50
Support.

I have a witch king with double rosette and I'd love for more people to be able to get rosetted witches from breedings outside of witch×witch. This item would be helpful to all BO breeders.



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Fern [main] (#158699)


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Posted on
2023-11-28 17:26:55
This (or a restructuring to the combo requirements in general) will be desperately needed if they follow through adding 2 extra seasons in the re-code. Fewer days in each season = breeding Cloudburst, Hoarfrost, Majivu, Rime, Smog, and Snowflake will be even more of a nightmare than it is now



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alex|G1 styx rlc (#53768)

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Posted on
2023-11-30 01:54:50
if this was in the game i would still have a smog king. idk how cloudburst breeders do it



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🦜 Jenday [Fable]
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Posted on
2023-11-30 02:04:16
Supported.
Since the addition of day/night requirements, studding for combos is much more risky. If the stud doesnt particularly care about your results rheres nothingbstopping them from accepting immediately and getting their fee, possibly wasting your items. An item like this would be useful as insurance when studding to strangers and make things more convenient to the stud too

I do think this would need be a limited supply item to prevent it from making a combo's special requirements irrelevant. Alternatives to november are during february's breeding item shops or events where seasonal breedings are a thing? Alternatively it could be a rare drop from the otter shop with a limited ammount you can buy similar to how the halloween bundles are limited? That would be fairly hard to balance though



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Edited on 30/11/23 @ 02:05:38 by 🦜 Jen [Fable] 🦜 (#177530)







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