I know the feeling, I've just started and after the first few species it does get pretty overwhelming. I want to do everything at once, attract more species, teach tricks, create varients, romance species and so on. Finding it hard to stay focused and that leads to lots of wasted time, but then it's also half the fun.
I've printed off the guides from the sticky and now after a few hours or doing lots of random stuff I'm giong to try and work through things methodically.
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