Breeding HGP?

[Malakai10]

I found a topic! (not the one I wanted, I'll keep on searching :3 )

So gender does indeed affect a horse's performance

I've definitely noticed that! I'll have mares and stallions that, untrained, get under 00:45 seconds for sprint racing. Trained, all but one of the stallions and none of the mares got a top speed under 00:40.

This was the sentence that made me come to the conclusion that I gave you!

Conformation Evaluation values represent the conformation portion of the Breeders Report. So if your horse has a great breeders report comment, and a poor conformation value, you can guess that the horse must then have very high natural genes to overcome the poor conformation and still end up with a great comment. However if the horse has poor natural genes then even a high conformation value won't help him because conformation doesn't actually ADD anything to the stat value. It can only subtract from the value. However these high conformation values can still be passed on to their foals.

I presume I must have forgotten, misunderstood or skimmed over the other parts

[Veterinarian]

I found a topic! (not the one I wanted, I'll keep on searching :3 )

So gender does indeed affect a horse's performance

I've definitely noticed that! I'll have mares and stallions that, untrained, get under 00:45 seconds for sprint racing. Trained, all but one of the stallions and none of the mares got a top speed under 00:40.

Yep XD now we know why 99% of the RHs are stallions lol

Well you've noticed that while I've noticed that my 02:17 minute foals end up doing scores of over 02:05 minute whole my 02:20 can go under 01:58 mins

[Veterinarian]

I've definitely noticed that! I'll have mares and stallions that, untrained, get under 00:45 seconds for sprint racing. Trained, all but one of the stallions and none of the mares got a top speed under 00:40.

This was the sentence that made me come to the conclusion that I gave you!

Conformation Evaluation values represent the conformation portion of the Breeders Report. So if your horse has a great breeders report comment, and a poor conformation value, you can guess that the horse must then have very high natural genes to overcome the poor conformation and still end up with a great comment. However if the horse has poor natural genes then even a high conformation value won't help him because conformation doesn't actually ADD anything to the stat value. It can only subtract from the value. However these high conformation values can still be passed on to their foals.

I presume I must have forgotten, misunderstood or skimmed over the other parts

Well at first I also got confused by the :

It can only subtract from the value

I thought at first that that meant that confo will only take from a comment and not give XD

[Malakai10]

I've definitely noticed that! I'll have mares and stallions that, untrained, get under 00:45 seconds for sprint racing. Trained, all but one of the stallions and none of the mares got a top speed under 00:40.

Yep XD now we know why 99% of the RHs are stallions lol

Well you've noticed that while I've noticed that my 02:17 minute foals end up doing scores of over 02:05 minute whole my 02:20 can go under 01:58 mins

Yes! And then the importance of temperament! Good grief - I've had such lovely horses that I otherwise absolutely adored be born bombproof - they would be fast if they got a speed score of under 00:48! They are always so lovely otherwise

I wonder if there are any competitions were mares perform better. Males do have an advantage of a higher red blood cell count but, in a competition where that matters less than, say, flexibility, movement or intelligence, surely mares should be on a more equal playing field?

On that matter, I'm curious as to whether the difference between male and female competition scores in this reflect real-life. Females have approximately 90% of the red blood cells males have and, consequentially, the highest possible score in, say, 100m sprint for a female will always be 90% of the 100m sprint score for a male (of course, this doesn't take into account mutations and the like which might allow for better ability to transport oxygen.) Does a mare have 90% of the red blood cells of a stallion? Do the mares in this game perform at 90% of what the stallions do (or at whatever the red blood cell percentage difference is?) I am very tempted to ping Larissar and ask.

[Malakai10]

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I wonder if there are any competitions were mares perform better. Males do have an advantage of a higher red blood cell count but, in a competition where that matters less than, say, flexibility, movement or intelligence, surely mares should be on a more equal playing field?

On that matter, I'm curious as to whether the difference between male and female competition scores in this reflect real-life. Females have approximately 90% of the red blood cells males have and, consequentially, the highest possible score in, say, 100m sprint for a female will always be 90% of the 100m sprint score for a male (of course, this doesn't take into account mutations and the like which might allow for better ability to transport oxygen.) Does a mare have 90% of the red blood cells of a stallion? Do the mares in this game perform at 90% of what the stallions do (or at whatever the red blood cell percentage difference is?) I am very tempted to ping Larissar and ask

From a previous post.

Also, I was wondering, since the sex of the horse affects its performance, should there not be two world records for each discipline, one for males, one for females?

[Veterinarian]

Yep XD now we know why 99% of the RHs are stallions lol

Well you've noticed that while I've noticed that my 02:17 minute foals end up doing scores of over 02:05 minute whole my 02:20 can go under 01:58 mins

Yes! And then the importance of temperament! Good grief - I've had such lovely horses that I otherwise absolutely adored be born bombproof - they would be fast if they got a speed score of under 00:48! They are always so lovely otherwise

I wonder if there are any competitions were mares perform better. Males do have an advantage of a higher red blood cell count but, in a competition where that matters less than, say, flexibility, movement or intelligence, surely mares should be on a more equal playing field?

On that matter, I'm curious as to whether the difference between male and female competition scores in this reflect real-life. Females have approximately 90% of the red blood cells males have and, consequentially, the highest possible score in, say, 100m sprint for a female will always be 90% of the 100m sprint score for a male (of course, this doesn't take into account mutations and the like which might allow for better ability to transport oxygen.) Does a mare have 90% of the red blood cells of a stallion? Do the mares in this game perform at 90% of what the stallions do (or at whatever the red blood cell percentage difference is?) I am very tempted to ping Larissar and ask.

Hhm, maybe that is what larissar hinted. I am very tempted too but I don't think they would spill their secrets so easily

Anyways, I just realised that I was spelling larissar's name wrong....oops

[Malakai10]

Yes! And then the importance of temperament! Good grief - I've had such lovely horses that I otherwise absolutely adored be born bombproof - they would be fast if they got a speed score of under 00:48! They are always so lovely otherwise

I wonder if there are any competitions were mares perform better. Males do have an advantage of a higher red blood cell count but, in a competition where that matters less than, say, flexibility, movement or intelligence, surely mares should be on a more equal playing field?

On that matter, I'm curious as to whether the difference between male and female competition scores in this reflect real-life. Females have approximately 90% of the red blood cells males have and, consequentially, the highest possible score in, say, 100m sprint for a female will always be 90% of the 100m sprint score for a male (of course, this doesn't take into account mutations and the like which might allow for better ability to transport oxygen.) Does a mare have 90% of the red blood cells of a stallion? Do the mares in this game perform at 90% of what the stallions do (or at whatever the red blood cell percentage difference is?) I am very tempted to ping Larissar and ask.

Hhm, maybe that is what larissar hinted. I am very tempted too but I don't think they would spill their secrets so easily

Anyways, I just realised that I was spelling larissar's name wrong....oops

Well, I've asked - we'll see if we get an explanation

[Veterinarian]

Hhm, maybe that is what larissar hinted. I am very tempted too but I don't think they would spill their secrets so easily

Anyways, I just realised that I was spelling larissar's name wrong....oops

Well, I've asked - we'll see if we get an explanation