Development Pipeline: Nest Incubation Update
We are working on updating our nesting and skin crafting system! We are currently making changes on how dragons incubate their eggs. Different bile types will need to use different techniques to keep their eggs in the perfect condition for hatching. For example, fire dragons will need to use their fire breath to heat the nests in order to achieve the optimal temperature. The above video shows how the nests will look when heated!
Comments (4)
Is there a plan to make this functional beyond incubation? By which I mean a nest heated/cooled/electrified/whatever would create a damage risk for a zygovo or other nest attacker? The maintenance of optimal incubation temperature usually means a combination of being "on" the nest and "off" it, so it's not as though there wouldn't be opportunities to strike a nest once the bile had worn out—i.e., constantly applying bile to a nest to protect it would ruin the incubation, either via egg death or bad stats—but it would demand additional strategy for a smaller and weaker dragon (such as the collection of a [element]-resistance pearl) for a unique gameplay experience.
This is great in a way for astettics but for PvP its going to make nesting even more dangerous and tedious. I dont think this is a good move for pvp since its already hard to nest on a populated server. Having to basically make yourself a beacon to hatch eggs that can already take a while since the person taking the egg is going to making a skin I dont think is a good move. IRS are loud and will either have to light themselves on fire or breath on a nest. If an enemy is around they will hear it. Nesting spots that are well hidden are going to be found do to noise which is already a risk when you're getting food and water. Besides if you have to heat the nest multiple times its not going to be worth the risk nesting when people can just respawn. Nesters most likely won't want to nest unless they absolutely have to. It seems like all con's since its more for ascetic and really just gives more risk/complicated means for something thats already gotten to be a hassle with how nesting is and where its going.
Making nesting more complex was always on the roadmap of this game, this will make old patern on pvp different and interesting. I think that a fire dragon can nest as normal on a hot area, like near lava, like the frost dragon would nest normaly in the top mountain. So it would mainly change strategies, but considering it's way easier to get A stats dragon it would be well balanced
This is a very cool implementation! Players needing to actually heat the eggs instead of staying near the nest gives a new level of interactive play and is just all around an amazing idea