I was thinking along the lines of custom built rock caves. Along the same idea, as the player gets more money, she or he can buy, say, sand from the shop and switch the substrate in one of the tanks from gravel to sand. As the players accumulate Isola bucks, they could buy more plants and decorate their tanks as they see fit (and it's something to do with the excess $$ when you start breeding the more expensive fish!). Let's say, ah, Vallesneria for $20, Hornwort for $40, etc. Then, in the supplies shop, have various plants priced at different rates. I was thinking, to make it a bit more challenging and interactive, you could let the players have a few choices upon beginning the game: one of two or three possible gravel colors, two or three different plants of the player's choice, one of two or three types of "hideout" - cave, rock, or bridge, for instance, that sort of thing. can't recall which one now.Īnyway, in my original post on the subject, I suggested that players be able to design their own tanks. It sort of ties in with one of my other ideas that I posted in one of the other FT suggestion threads. If you really want to get special, you could even color/mark the male and female accordingly. so being able to have male/female fish would not only be more fun because of it's realism.but would also impart an extra challenge. I know SOME fish can do it, but that's under extreme conditions, not typical tank fish. That doesn't make sense!! I know we have to suspend disbelief to a certain point, but right now, the asexual fish thing is just kind of silly. and you can breed fishB to fishC and fishB gets preg. I've noticed now that you can mate fishA to fishB and fishA gets pregenant. being able to tell and utilize the fishes sex would be a nice touch. Well I just found the fish tracker programme, but I still think something in game would be uld look like a researchers log too. So it would be really nice, and make sense, to have some kind of log in game that lets us track the new fish creations. Right now I keep track using an Excel file on my computer, but sometimes babies die before you see what they are, or I just don't get around to filling in the Excel spreadsheet, since I have to open a whole new program. The more I play, I find it would be REALLY handy to have a feature that helps you log, or automatically logs, the genetic recombinations you have done and shows the result.
I wonder, do the creators actually read these boards?