Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5832451-20121215032807/@comment-5832451-20121217010741

I'm breaking this up into several segments because it got a little long. (Apologies if this isn't really the kind of thing you wanted to get dragged into).

First,

Re: use of the word "Fail". I guess this is just semantics, which is not always worth Quibbling about (sorry). But here goes. Technically what we're doing is not breeding, per se, since you don't take 2 identical parents to get an identical offspring (not allowed), we're really creating hybrids or crossbreeding, but BBB went ahead and called it the Breeding Structure so there you go. And Hybridizing Structure doesn't have the same ring.

So to me, the goal is to really get a new species (because if the goal were to truly breed and get something you already have, then you ought to be able breed the same monster). So a successful breed - sorry, "hybridizing" - gives you something you don't put into the machine. Getting a parent back thus is considered a "failed hybridization". But there's nothing that says you can't purposely put it a combination you know will not create a new hybrid, and thus get what you successfully want 100% of the time. If getting what you desired is "not failing" then yes, I agree, it's not a fail, even though it was a "failed hybridization" that you really wanted. Like I said, totally semantics. But there's nothing wrong with indicating that there's a failure rate with all hybridization attempts - that is, you can have the right combination and still not get what you want. (Witness all the people out there complaining that Deedge/Thumpies can't be the Yool combination because they did it and it didn't give them a Yool).