Expand Breed Creation?

[Argent]

Currently, as far as I know, in order for a player to create a new breed, the horses must be "mixed," or have a pedigree consisting of four or more breeds. I would like to see this modified to allow fewer crosses, as game-created breeds can result from as few as just two breeds. As long as a cross is unable to create a currently recognized breed (game or player created), then players should be able to make a new breed from it.

[larissar]

Breeds can be created from only 2 breeds. It's just that the research I did indicated that most breeds are the result of crossing multi different breeds together.

User created breeds will work differently. They won't be created with a recipe. Instead a user would create a breed registry, then any horses registered as that breed could become that breed. Any any foals resulting from a cross between two registered horses would also be of that breed. So they would completely by-pass the "recipe" aspect of game-created breeds.

[Argent]

Maybe I didn't word that well; I know game-created breeds can come from just two parent breeds, but I remember you saying a long time ago that player-created breed would have to be from "Mixed Breed" horses. But that seems to have changed.

[larissar]

Oh I understand what you are saying. You're tight I did say at one point the horses needed to be Mixed Breeds. I have changed that although I do need to create some guidelines as to what constitutes a new breed. It should be something accomplished through work not just arbitrarily declaring a particular horse as a new breed. I just haven't worked on this part much yet so I haven't decided how it will work.

[Argent]

Minimum number of registered horses meeting a specific phenotype (type/build/color/height/etc.), kind of like game-breeds?

[larissar]

Something like that.
I'd like to have something where the game can evaluate if the horses have a similar phenotype, but the game can't evaluate phenotype, only genotype. So I could make it so that all the horses have to have their genes within X range of each other, but then we run into problems where horses that visually look identical may be created from two completed different ranges of genetics. I would want those horses to still count towards the breed, but the game would mark them down.....

But, it may be the only way I can do it, so I'll just have to accept that user created breeds will have very limit gene pools unless outside breeding is used.

[Argent]

It's fair to mark down horses that come from the wrong genetic background, as far as breed ancestors go; if someone meant for that new breed to be produced from only certain types/breeds of horses, that should be honored (like producing a warmblood only from sporthorse crosses, and excluding hotblood x draft crosses, for example).