7Seas Joins The Breeding Bandwagon

Fish and Bait | September 23rd, 2009 by Kabalyero View Comments 263 views

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It started with the chickens then came the turtles by Petable which will be followed shortly by bunnies by OziMals and HunnyBunny and soon we will have breeding pet fishes by 7Seas. I found out about it a few weeks back while updating my Custom Items thread in their forum. I decided to check out the announcement forum and fish breeding was mentioned in their “Team Fishing Upgrades Released! (And More To Come…)” thread.

You asked for it. You want it. You’re getting it. FISH BREEDING.

More details will be coming — we still have a lot of work to do on this! — but the basic idea is that it gives you a reason to wear and show off your fish. Wear a Mama fish and a Papa fish of the same species, and after some time swimming together, you’ll get an adorable little Baby fish! Combine different colors to get different babies!

Hunt elusive rare baby breeds — and earn Family Points to increase your odds of finding rares! Will you be the first person in SL with enough determination (and utter insanity) to reach the highest rank of fish breeders? We shall see… again, no ETA on this, but we’re working on it!

- 7Seas Forum

There was also some talk about releasing some kind of open source scripts so that fishing area owners can make their own breedable fish. I’m not 100% sure about this one but if it’s true then it’s something I can definitely play with. I’m not a scripter or coder by the way but I can still make new customs from it if they are indeed released as open source.

I’m actually looking forward to this fish breeding thing and if they open source it then much better. I just enjoy making new stuff for people to catch at my fishing area and with an open source breeding script I’ll be able to make more. Although, I’m not raising my hopes up that much since I still don’t have any concrete information about the scripts being released as open source.

I’ve been procrastinating on building custom fish dragons (not from sculpt maps sold at xstreetsl.com, I have those but I want to make my own prim dragons) for my fishing area and if fish breeding will indeed be open source then I might just do breedable dragon fishes. Why not? Everyone seems to love dragons in Second Life. LOL!

While we all wait for the release of this new update, drop by my fishing area in-world and try to catch more than 250 custom items. This includes custom fishes, custom fishing rods and other custom items like shoes, shoulder buddies, backpacks and many more.