Breeding Male

So I'm curious if it's because it's easier on the mods or if it's just because that's how Lioden works but why is it we can have only one breeding Male. In the wild wolves mate for life and I would love to be able to only breed my Alpha with the Mate I made for him and have the others in my pack breed randomly. It's just a thought and I wondered what other people's opinions are?

Extracted from April 4, 2019 teaser from wolvden tumblr (now on wolvden.wiki).

In the beginning of development we tossed around a lot of ideas for how best to balance realism with enjoyable gameplay. The first idea was to have a mated pair - so a male and female that could only breed together and everyone else in the pack were almost ‘pack helpers’. The problems with this were fairly high - it meant that studding was no longer an option, and forced players into a playstyle where they had to have a male and female always. The next idea involved the possibility that breeding pairs were still a thing - but they could be changed out fairly often. This provided a few more problems - studding would be tricky, breeding would be severely limited by how often you could switch out your pair, it would mean constantly pairing and unpairing wolves, and female leads would be at a significant disadvantage compared to male leads as they would not be able to produce the same number of puppies a lead male could, assuming he had a lot of females in his pack.

In the end, we decided on this:

There is a single breeding male within every pack that chooses to have one. To breed within your pack, you must first designate a breeding male to be the ‘stud’ if you will, which is locked in as its own role, and carries its own retirement process. The breeding male can be bred to any female in the pack, and can also stud out to other players’ wolves if you choose to do so. The lead wolf - even if male - does not necessarily have to be the breeding male. The game does not force you to have a breeding male at any time - only if you wish to breed within your pack. So in theory, it would be perfectly possible to have an entire pack of females and to still produce pups by using outside studs. The flexibility this offers means numerous options for roleplay and doesn’t force a player down one particular route with what they want to do with their pack.

For lore purpose I would loved to have wolves breed for life. As it's not possible, my way around it is that for the purpose of lore only my lead, his mate, and his puppies exists. The remainder "utility" members of the pack doesn't exist for lore purposes.