I'm not a geneticist and I don't study it directly. I'm just trying to follow their logic path :). At face value, the "KK=lethal" assumption just seemed like a convenient way to make the K locus work for the game. Well, since KB/KB wolves almost never succeed in reproducing, one might say they are ...

Is there a similar gene to the K-locus for determining brown coats as well? Sort of. Your coat-colour paint-box has two paints only -- Eumelanin, which is dark brown/black, and pheomelanin, which is red. At A-locus, the genetic code says how to distribute these colours in the coat. Normally it says...

That's really interesting stuff, Beez. I wonder how heterozygous KK wolves are for other stuff. If dominant-black at K is a mutation that occurred in domestic dogs and was passed to wolves (seems pretty well proven that it is) and this happened only a couple of times (hmmmm...) then a KK wolf probab...

I believe that these genetics apply only to domestic dogs. Wolf genetics are similar, but a bit different. Also, the developers likely want genetics as simple and standard as possible for the game for the sake of ease. Domestic dogs have a bunch of possoble mutations that don't exist in wolves, but...

It just ain't so that being double-dominant black at K-locus is fatal. That pup would just be black. Unless it's got a recessive mutation at B-locus, and is 'chocolate' (brown), or at E, and is yellow/red, or somewhere else I don't remember which will make it the even grey they call 'blue' or 'silve...

I've only seen a wild one once, in Quebec, near Grenville-Sur-La-Rouge.

Please give coyotes varying (realistic) pelt colors. I like this idea. I'm going to go ahead and second it. I think it would help make things a little more interesting and realistic. What would be great is if the coyotes learned -- if you bite one, or just chase it enough to tire it, it will stay f...

We need a tiny minority of coyotes who will respond to a play-bow and have a romp.

Will cattle ranch still be in WQ3? If it is, will it be its own level like before or are you going to make it walkable? IE: You travel to the ranch by walking there, rather than teleporting. We would like to make the cattle ranch contiguous with the game map, for naturalism and also so it’s availab...

My preference would be to make the invisible walls visible when you're near them. Translucent, visible wall, possibly labeled 'end of world' or 'edge of simulation'. I spend a fair amount of time checking the map to see if I'm at the edge of the sim, or if I'm bouncing off a feature that's just too ...

Some method of allowing players to check others for a readable profile of wolf character's gender, age, notes, as RP chat is pretty constantly interrupted by requests for this information. Also, maybe 'local chat' tab, where only the other wolves within x-radius of your own can hear you. Etc - Globa...

Oooh, yeah. These look fantastic.

I wonder if we'll be able to fall, maybe get knocked off a cliff by an angry ram.

Or recreate the thrilling conclusion of one of my favourite wolf stories, Badlands Billy, the Wolf That Won (Ernest Thompson Seton, 1905).

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It'd be hilarious and great if sometimes a carcass would, when mostly/completely consumed, spawn a Particularly Interesting Bone that you could carry about, and play fight over, and try to get two wolves biting-and-holding at the same time for tug-of-war. Maybe there's an Exceptionally Good Abandon...

Make the colour of a wolf's hover-text name settable by the player. Make that wolf's scent trail the same colour as its name. I love this idea as a way to represent different scents, as in reality scents, even if different wolves is unique...however in terms of game functionality it could potential...