Lead wolves able to get pregnant while in explore

I think having NPC wolves would be really cool to encounter while in explore and i had a few ideas!

One thing I think would be super cool is if you have a female lead that was in heat and you are out in explore you have a small chance to be able to come across a male wolf that has a chance to end up breeding with your female and getting them pregnant! It would be a small chance like maybe 25% chance and the NPC could have a chance of being a chased wolf, this may help clean out the chased pool as well :) but once you encounter them you would go into a screen like befriending a wolf in explore, but you have a chance to get to know them, like a possibility to find out their stats, number of markings, if they have a T2, T3, or special base, ect.    but you only get 3 or 4 chances to find out and like a NBW every chance may not work. With this i think it would be cool that like if you say would out what their base is then you can see the base? Like when you encounter them they are in the shadows hiding so you can't tell right away what base or marks they have, and as you find things out about them you are trying to lure them to come out to you. and if you are successful then your lead will become pregnant one last feature will be explained with how it would work with a male lead

With this i think it would be cool if a male lead could also find a female NBW that is in heat that they could breed with, it would work the same way as if you had a female lead where you have to like lure them to come out to you. If you are successful then the female will become pregnant! But because she is not a part of your pack depending on how well you were able to lure her to you will depend on if she joins your pack or not, the same with a female lead in the chance of having the male join your pack. If she does then everything will go on like you have a NBW in your pack but she is pregnant with the lead's pups. But if the female does not join your pack after 4 RO you could have an encounter in your daily rollover summary that says something like "You found a litter of 4 pups outside your territory this morning, you can tell they are your pups by their scent, it looks like 1 pups was attacked by a coyote and didn't make it, what a shame" but because the female left them outside your territory the number of pups birthed and survived will vary like a normal un-nested birth. But to keep it fair their would be like a cooldown for how often a male lead can find a NBW like this in explore

I think this would be a cool way to have new NBW in your packs with new bloodlines and would help a little with actual gameplay to keep the active gene pool wider (all of the NBW encountered this way can also have a chance to be a carrier like a normal NBW or chased wolf) while also providing a lot of possible cool lore stories for players who like to do that!

@ tacobell #18615 

i think this is a great idea. 

even if the wolf doesn't end up joining your pack this would be a great way to introduce new bloodlines into your pack. 

i think its is cool that a female lead could become pregnant while exploring even if its a 25 % of happening. 

of course you have to wait for 4 roll over to wait for the pups unless you use an instant birth feather. 

i just want to say i 100 % support your idea. 

Gotta support this. It'd be pretty cool if the breeder NPC wolves also came with the possibility of passing on NBW exclusive markings and/or bases. This might also be a fun way to introduce hybrid mutations unique to Wolvden by having limited time coyote and dog NPCs willing to mate with our packs.

This is a great idea. I support it entirely. But maybe add a higher chance of mutation, not much higher, but still higher. Or add the potential for rarer markings in the pups. Or something similar, in order to make the option of using a wolf found in explore as a breeder more interesting to users than just using the wolves they already have in their pack. 

Support.

I would be very upset at this if it was random/you had no option to refuse the wolf. It would be insanely infuriating to have a high-stat female on her last heat and have it randomly claimed by some lil nobody with no stats or markings lol. Since it seems to be optional instead, I'm all for it. It really seems like it would add to the game. :D

Half support.

It would be a cute idea to get encounter-exclusive litters and I bet the flavor text for them would be great! Some cute bonding moments between you and the NPC wolf would be a refresher from all the battling and killing that you have to do. It would be a cute change of pace and I'm curious to see what the NPC sprite would look like if it ever happened.

But with 25% chance of getting encounters with the NPC (For reference, that's about as often as you get woodlice encounters in places like the taiga) AND with chased wolves involved in the mix... depending of the gen of your wolf and the chasdd involved, the pup market could end up being incredibly saturated again or it could be overrun with g2/3s and the chased market would drop significantly since you can just breed with the NPC and avoid having to pay for a studding and wait for your wolf to be pregnant. It would greatly upset low gen breeders since they can no longer make their profit from there. That, and what if you really wanted to save your heat as @Flower said? I'm not gonna stop exploring for 3 days because my lead is in heat especially not if I want her to be a high stat lead... 

Cute idea, but I personally think it needs a bit of polishing. 

No support. I don't want to have to stop exploring for 3 days just because my leader is in heat. That would be detrimental to my pack. Not to mention I might actually want to save her heat for another user's stud over a NBW.

I also don't see many benefits when it comes to lead males either. Most male leads are also studs/can breed via pair bonds. Most female NBWs are going to be in heat or close to it when you befriend them so I don't see how this idea can be superior to just befriending that wolf and breeding with her (even with some features being made visible such as stat numbers, markings, etc).

@sinxerely i can agree with a lower percentage i just said 25 as an example XD but i do think 25 is a little bit too high 

@LittlePuppy the way im thinking of it to work the same as befriending a NBW kind of so you could always just leave the encounter if you want to save your leads heat for that reason because you may have planned to use your lead's heat on a specific stud and there shouldn't be any guarantee at all that you would find a NPC wolf like this while your lead is in heat to make sure that ,like Sinxerely said, the market dosen't get flooded with these pups. While it is true that many male leads are also set as studs. there are many that probably aren't and it would be more useful to them. But the way i'm thinking of it is that like a chased NBW has a chance to be a mutie carrier so if you rolled the very very very small percent chance that the NBW your lead bred with was a carrier and you got a G2 (assuming you had a G1 lead) mutie or carrier with a line that no body else has.

So the way that im thinking of it it would work like raffle studs but while in explore, they will only ever come up once and being from the chased pool they could have a special base/markings, you could have a very nice lineage wolf if you have a low gen lead wolf. This also may not be a very useful feature for those who inbreed wolves or who don't care about lineage (like a super long lineage), it may not prove as useful but for me i personally choose to try and have all NIB wolves with short lineage and no common lines in them but like i said i understand that not all players are like that so this feature may not be useful to everyone, BUT it would provide nice lore for some players!