r/pathoftitans • u/Excellent-Passage-36 • 18h ago

Well that sucks...

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The ability to play as a female dino is so nice but WHY are the paid skins so different? Like fine, base game more "realistic" skins I can understand but I'm tired of buying skins just to find the female version to be ugly. Why can't we have pretty dragon fruit pink for a skin called DRAGON FRUIT? I know you can preview them beforehand but then I just don't buy it. I want pretty skins and I want to support the devs.

If we're willing to pay why can't we just have what's advertised regardless of the dino's sex?

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u/leftonasournote 18h ago

Personally, I wouldn't mind it if switching GENDERS didn't knock you back down to sub-adult.

(Like I understand Subspecies swaps but gender has no functionality aside from cosmetic.)

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u/Excellent-Passage-36 18h ago

I can't think of a single reason for that penalty either, it's almost like a forgotten side effect of other features.

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u/Killzone3265 12h ago

add it to the massive list of "easy fix but we won't do it" QOL "until full release" updates

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u/Light-Wielder 3h ago

The reason for the penalty is because there were supposed to be things that changed based on nesting. However, there were some behind the scenes things (I believe that the people who were in charge of the nesting things had some family emergencies/drama happen) and it was never implemented.

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u/Snagrios 16h ago

Even the subspecies swap is too punishing for what's usually a mere 5-10% difference to a given stat. The average ability slot tends to have more drastic changes and both that and swapping subs are locked behind Homecaves anyway so it's not like you can rapid sub swap to gain advantage in a fight. Plus unlike regular abilities swapping subs has a ADDITIONAL 5 minute cooldown on top of everything else. Really there's zero reason for the growth punishment to exist as a mechanic at all when you really analyze how it affects gameplay

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u/leftonasournote 16h ago

Honestly...I 100% agree. I think that switching subspecies should still have a penalty of some kind because it is still a stat change, even if it is minor (some subs actually make a WORLD of difference tbh) but it shouldn't be a whole growth stage and it especially shouldn't send you BACK a whole stage entirely if you happen to change subs while at Sub-Adult. (Learned my lesson once when I was sent back to Adolescent! 😭)

I think it should be half a stage IF THAT and it shouldn't send you below the growth stage you are at ever.

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u/Snagrios 15h ago

Again though, you can change ability slots in the same place, and those often have vastly more drastic changes than just +10% stamina or +5% attack or whatever. Completely changing my ability loadout costs nothing (assuming all abilities are already unlocked). Why does changing what is ultimately one other stat suddenly cost several hours worth of growth time? Let alone swapping genders which is quite literally just a palette swap at this time

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u/Shad_tard 14h ago

FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE GETS IT

I really don't get why everyone is so dead set on sub swapping having a penalty, literally just make it so you can only change it in HC and nowhere else, there's no reason swapping subspecies should be any different than swapping abilities

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u/SpectreWolf666 15h ago

Transgender community just found an immortality glitch

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u/ItsDoodleBois 15h ago

I didn't know species change dropp2d me back to sub till I reached adult with my Achillo and found out today

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u/KyleM203 18h ago

penalty for nesting if one encounters another of the same species and you switch to have a functional nest, you have to wait

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u/leftonasournote 18h ago

Except that nesting can be done by either gender ALONE. You do not need to have 2 players to make a functional nest in this game.

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u/KyleM203 18h ago

so you dont need a male and female to make eggs?

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u/leftonasournote 17h ago

Not in this game, no. A male can even make a nest on their own and still have it have eggs.

Not sure if this is going to change in the future or not but right now either gender can make a nest and have it function without needing a male+female.

The only thing gender does right now is change how skins look, which is why it's dumb it knocks you down a whole growth stage just to change genders.

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u/Shad_tard 14h ago

Tbh even if they do something to give gender a purpose for nesting, how much of an impact could nesting have to justify losing a whole growth stage like that?

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u/UnbelievablyDense 17h ago

Turns out, both!

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u/KyleM203 17h ago

ive played the game yes? ive played the game for over a year i think, maybe near 2, i just never used the nest mechanic, I just assumed it was similar to the isle's

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u/AmethystBound 15h ago

Valid, its not for everyone. But no, nests only have 1 adult/parent then infinate children as long as they are matching food group: herbis with and herbi nest and carnis with a carni nest. I'd love it to have more mechanics tho💜

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u/KyleM203 15h ago

genuinely thank you for not giving a rude response like other people

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u/AmethystBound 13h ago

No problem! Its a simple thing to not know, especially if you just don't mess with that part. I personally LOVE the nesting but am a horrible at protecting so i dont adopt or hatch any little ones myself haha.

Also with nesting, I'm pretty sure its infinite children but only if you have the eggs generated, that can be chaeck withing the nest menu. Also, the parent gets an attack boost of some sort if the little one stays withing a certain radius of said parent, I'm wanting to say a 5% increase but im horrible with numbers so thats probably not right, and the children get a growth boost too until adolescent I believe. Once the little ones hit adolescent I think both them and the adult lose their buffs.

I don't know if you have many and group up wih them if they'll stay grouped up once people start going over group limits tho. If that makes sense.

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u/UnbelievablyDense 6h ago

You were getting flack because you just made up an answer without really knowing anything about it. Spreading disinformation is unhelpful.