Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-151.224.230.150-20170218183908/@comment-151.224.230.150-20170226124652

Adsper wrote: I like the idea of the big egg machine like in JP. I'm kinda torn on the illnesses... it just seems really strange for a game like minecraft, but I think it might work depending on how its done (obviously nothing like cancer or captivity depression, maybe some prehistoric disease that would make them slower or something like that).

I'm not really against the idea of a family tree, but what would adding families actually do that mobs don't already do right now? They basically treat all other mobs of the same species as their family now, the main difference would just be in the names. The only real other difference I can think of is a mother taking care of a baby. The only reason I would want it is to keep track of what relation the dinos have to each other through the dinopedia, but still, it's not exactly important.

You also have to keep in mind what would be too difficult to code in. What would happen if one died, would the dinopedia be able to keep track of dead entities? Different dimensions? Would it even be able to keep track of mobs in unloaded chunks? If the family tree got too big, would the dinopedia bug out? And so on. the main reason for the family tree is to keep trak of dinos and because at some point there my be too many dinos for it to give information on it may get buggy which is why i also suggested a life span though for somr children this might be sad for them  it is apart of the life cycle and so i feel should be impliemented however seeing that the book may bug out if the family gets too big it could instead of giveing individual information that it will just tell you where the familiy nest is and the number of dinos belonging to that family so yo can go to the nest and find all the dinos then use the book on them individually to see their information. the other purpose to this is because at the moment dinos will defend them selfs but not the others this ajustment will mean that the mother and father will protect their children and the siblings proect their siblings and perants but maybe from a certain age  this will help on the server if someone goes to kill a dino that player has a whole familiy to deal whith and this them may prevent players from even being tempted to harm another players dinos.

and the illnesses are a big maybe subject im sort of thinking maybe instead of just occuring they could get ill by the plants but only if the player that places them hasnt cleaned or checked the plant however this may mean a new machine that will check and clean the lant of deases.