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[Sand dunes/ Desert]

A sandy biome with no grass, using the little dried berry bushes for food along with cactus, and termite hills.

maybe using some other kind of plant for nesting  material.

I also think snakes would be pretty cool for resources like food.

[Hyena challenge]

On 2/22/2019 at 12:17 PM, jutzi.sophie said:

This is a strongly hierarchy orientated challenge that I based of the hierarchy of the spotted hyena. I am not a hyena expert or anything, but I think their packs structure is interesting so I used it as a basis.

Challenge

Your starters have to be a pair. (With the new sandbox update in near future I would like to add that you yourself can decide if you want to make custom starters, but since this is a challenge, I think random starters are the harder option)

First, set the rank of the female to alpha. The male stays a beta. Then, breed them as quickly as possible. I will now explain the hierarchy in detail:

Females

The females are the dominant gender. All females will be ranked as an alpha, except for the lowest female who is a beta. The lowest ranked female is still higher than the highest ranking male. The firstborn daughter of your starter pair will be the second highest female (after her mother). The next born female will be the third-highest, etc. The dominance can be seen by the colours of the first two gems. The highest ranked female should have this written next to her name. This is just an example of how it could look like:

green-green

green-orange

green-blue

green-pink

green-yellow

orange-green

orange-orange

orange-blue, etc.

The highest ranked female will always be able to give birth. The lower ranked a female is, the less likely she is to give birth to her baby. As an extra rule you could say that only the females with certain first gem colours (as in green-orange) are allowed to give birth. Only the females with green as the first gem colour are allowed to use nesting material, all others can only give birth on permanent nests. When a female baby is born, she automatically inherits her mothers rank. Her last gem colour shows which baby she is. Since you only have one gem, you can also write it next to her name. The males do not count, so if a female has already six sons and then her second daughter, this daughter will still be labeled as number two (or second gem colour orange). After a female dies, her oldest daughter inherits her rank. All younger daughters can not get pregnant until the oldest sister dies and the second in line takes her place. This does not apply for the first generation of females (the kids of your starter pair, since they "found" the different ranks). If a female does not want to wait for her sister to die off, she can become the new lowest ranking female and with some luck, "found" a new group. Inside of the gem groups, the oldest females are allowed to give birth. (You can decide how many of them)

Females only get kicked out of the group if they are sick (double immunity sickness, not common cold). If a female who is not allowed to give birth gets a kid or if a low ranked female uses nesting material to give birth you can a) kick the baby out or b)make the baby a slave without any rights (regardless of the gender). Rogue daughters will not inherit their mothers rank and will be forced to become the new lowest female.

As for wanderers, you are not allowed to invite female wanderers.

Males

Every male is ranked as an omega, except for the highest male which is a beta. They have the same colour system as the females (you can change the colours up as you please). However, they do not inherit their fathers position. The males rank system is just about their age. The oldest male is the highest ranking one. The dominant male will only have one goal: To secure that his genes get passed on. This means that he will mate with every available female at any possible time. This will, obviously, result in a lot of inbreeding, sickness and probably also frustration. Since your starter male is the dominant male, he will mate with all of his daughters. Also: A female would never mate with a male that is not the oldest. But you may create forbidden love stories for fun.

For wanderers: You can invite male wanderers, but they are automatically the lowest ranked male. The only way for any male to progress in the hierarchy is to wait for the older ones to die off and for new males to arrive / get born.

So, this is it. I would be happy to hear a feedback.

Edit:

Lower ranked females can overthrow a higher ranked female if they have more kids than her (which could happen if the higher ranked female had a lot of sickly kids that were banished). This would only work if none of the females between the two have more babies than the low ranked female.

Males: You can set a maximum amount of males that are allowed to stay in the group. If a male wanderer arrives you can still invite him.

 

 

oof sounds like alot, but also pretty cool!