Development Pipeline: Baby Brood Watcher Animations

Although realism is frequently a goal of mine, this is one situation where my vote would have to be "absolutely not," because it interferes with gameplay progression while offering no gameplay benefit: 1.) New players will already be trying to learn to manage flight and camera simultaneously, therefore crashing and being injured constantly anyway; that is unstable "hatchling" flight all on its own, and deliberately making the mechanic worse for these people would turn the game into a nightmare. 2.) As it is, experienced players complain about growth times and having to wait for the ability to fly, so they most likely wouldn't appreciate this idea being implemented; any pleasure about the realism of an unstable flight will be buried leagues deep beneath the annoyance of and boredom with yet more delays in accessing flight. 3.) Perhaps most importantly, DoD is intended to be a PvP game. Poor-quality flight for young dragons would dramatically increase the likelihood of early death (especially for solo players), wasting untold hours of players' lives before they even reach a point of being able to do anything of significance. It's one thing to create a challenge, another to make the game unplayable. I just don't see any positive gameplay value in being forced to cope with bad flight merely because it's "more natural." Nothing about it would help players progress in the game—it would simply be an obstacle for the sake of having an obstacle.