INTEREST CHECK: Petz Lineage Project/Community
Posted: Thu Feb 27, 2025 5:04 am
(special thanks to queenie for the original idea and to many others who listened to me talk about this bc it wouldnt leave my head)
hiiiiiiiiii petz community
would anyone hypothetically be interested in a community where members keep a subset of bred petz (and breed them and adopt them out etc) and we collectively track their ancestors and descendants
I haven't got all the details ironed out yet BUT, at least initially, I think we want to use P4 only Original Breeds, the reasoning is as follows:
- Keeping track of OW availability (on a website vs discord exclusive, only in archives, etc) and compatibility (differing versions of the "same" file) is simply beyond the scope of what I can hope to do. If we stick to OB files, everything just works.
- To my knowledge, there are no perfect "as is" ports of the P5 breeds to P4, including their original breeding quirks and personalities. Thus, several different "overwrites" of the P5 breeds exist with various edits and fixes. I am simply not going to "canonize" one set of p5 OWs/ports over the other ones for this project.
the original idea involved tracking every pet's ancestry back to their Adoption Center progenitors. This is an option if people are interested in keeping AC and low gen petz, but quickly gets unwieldy if people start speed-running higher generation projects, especially if they're full-tree, non-inbred, etc. (consider how many unique ancestors one non inbred 8th gen pet has)
A modified idea could involve tracking ancestry starting from "founding petz" which would essentially be bred petz members like enough to keep in their crew and potentially breed from. Rather than tracking every ancestor from the AC, we'd start tracking higher-gen petz. This might be easier for people to keep up with, because only the final pet from a new from-scratch project would have to be added.
THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? CONCERNS?
hiiiiiiiiii petz community
would anyone hypothetically be interested in a community where members keep a subset of bred petz (and breed them and adopt them out etc) and we collectively track their ancestors and descendants
I haven't got all the details ironed out yet BUT, at least initially, I think we want to use P4 only Original Breeds, the reasoning is as follows:
- Keeping track of OW availability (on a website vs discord exclusive, only in archives, etc) and compatibility (differing versions of the "same" file) is simply beyond the scope of what I can hope to do. If we stick to OB files, everything just works.
- To my knowledge, there are no perfect "as is" ports of the P5 breeds to P4, including their original breeding quirks and personalities. Thus, several different "overwrites" of the P5 breeds exist with various edits and fixes. I am simply not going to "canonize" one set of p5 OWs/ports over the other ones for this project.
the original idea involved tracking every pet's ancestry back to their Adoption Center progenitors. This is an option if people are interested in keeping AC and low gen petz, but quickly gets unwieldy if people start speed-running higher generation projects, especially if they're full-tree, non-inbred, etc. (consider how many unique ancestors one non inbred 8th gen pet has)
A modified idea could involve tracking ancestry starting from "founding petz" which would essentially be bred petz members like enough to keep in their crew and potentially breed from. Rather than tracking every ancestor from the AC, we'd start tracking higher-gen petz. This might be easier for people to keep up with, because only the final pet from a new from-scratch project would have to be added.
THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? CONCERNS?