1. Inheritable traits/stats:
Like in some sim games, it is beneficial to wait to breed until the parent(s) are of a higher level. Since leveling is a part of this game, perhaps the cubs of the parents with higher levels could gain a little stat boost? It might also help dumb people like me stop breeding constantly. I have an addiction, it's quite sad.

2. Lioness Training
Maybe have an option to send lionesses on side missions to help them gain exp in a way other than hunting because with the current system, I will only have five lionesses who actually get any exp because I don't want to risk losing valuable hunting minutes on level 1 lionesses when my higher-leveled ones are doing better. These missions could cost a fair amount of normal beetles, which would give the members another reason to use them since after territory size 10, they're fairly useless at this point.

3. Still births and Infertility?
Nature is harsh and, well, not every critter is going to reproduce because of various reasons. Each lioness could have a set percentage chance of infertility based on a number of factors (hunger could be one since hungry hungry hippos-- er...organisms don't usually have the ability to sustain another life when their own is on the line). On the same line, cubs could be stillborn and a pregnancy could just result in nothing.

4. Theft
Maybe some hyena could go a-prowling for some lion cubs. People may lose some cubs, but maybe Gold Beetles could offer a permanent/semi-permanent protection for the more valued cubs and a lion's skill stat or maybe smarts/strength/speed stats could give them a chance to get the cubs back before anything terrible happens (at an energy cost, of course!), which would add another element to the game. A notification would be given, of course, whenever a cub is nabbed and the nabbing would be entirely random beyond the protected cub.


Please feel free to give me your feedback-- more than just "I don't like it," because I'd like to have constructive criticism and some ideas bounced off. Most of this was on the fly thought of, so the ideas are not entirely fully thought out. :)