Competition Update is Live!

[Tom]

Yes, adoption centre horses come displaying their temperament genes.
I suggest players who focus on breeding use the tag system to keep track of things like temperament at birth.

[larissar]

Regarding introducing new blood to our lines. The birth temperament of a horse needs to be displayed somewhere permanently, otherwise its not possible for us to know what genes we're passing on to our horses. This info is no where to be found on most horses in the game unless the player put it in the notes.

I always do this, but almost nobody else does, and even if they do, are they telling the truth? This is a huge change that has drastic ramifications and I've seen many dishonest ads on the market/stud registry. I wouldn't put my faith in a horse because the breeder "said so" in real life, or in this game.

Temperament of an unknown horse could range anywhere from high strung because the player hasn't aged the horse a turn since the update, to actually being high strung, or the horse could be displaying as even-tempered but was actually born bombproof and is on a high sugar diet. There's no point in taking a change on an unknown variable like this.

That rules out breeding to the stallions at stud, or buying horses on the market.

Does the temperament displayed on foundation stock when you first adopt them indicate their actual temperament?

Even if it does, adding foundation stock with their low breeding and conformation reports will drag my horses down and require years and years of breeding to bring them up again. It was already sad when I got a really decent horse that had a bombproof temperament and I had to rehome it. Now I'll have to rehome anything that isn't at least spirited.

None of my horses born with even-temperament seem to be able to attain the last turn of spirited and are running at least a half a second slower then they were and this includes my world record holders.

It's very disheartening.

I hear what you are saying, and I understand your frustration. Tom and I are discussing various solutions and we hope to have something good to share in a future update.

[Tom]

Something else that may help is the local show feedback will tell you if a temperament is too high or too low for a competition.

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[Jewels Training]

I hear what you are saying, and I understand your frustration. Tom and I are discussing various solutions and we hope to have something good to share in a future update.

That is good to hear. Thank you!

[Jewels Training]

Something else that may help is the local show feedback will tell you if a temperament is too high or too low for a competition.

It helps a little but it starts saying the temperament is fairly correct quite a bit before the actual best temperament is achieved. It also continues to say fairly correct when your horse is past that threshold.