Determined Colour

[Nazarach]

I could agree with have a few pre-sets. Maybe have a 'base' value of color - pre-sets for black, brown, bay, chestnut then have the actual color to be filled in with whatever.
I've seen my fair share of duns being called blue roans or even our notorious pseudo-whites. I do certainly like being able to search for colors, but if they don't have a color or if it's wrong, so many are so easily overlooked or missed.

I second that ^^ Maybe the tutorial could link to the Forums and having to real/click one of the Color guides as a step would Prevent a bit of this madness(?)

[BlackOak2]

I could agree with have a few pre-sets. Maybe have a 'base' value of color - pre-sets for black, brown, bay, chestnut then have the actual color to be filled in with whatever.
I've seen my fair share of duns being called blue roans or even our notorious pseudo-whites. I do certainly like being able to search for colors, but if they don't have a color or if it's wrong, so many are so easily overlooked or missed.

I second that ^^ Maybe the tutorial could link to the Forums and having to real/click one of the Color guides as a step would Prevent a bit of this madness(?)

I do vaguely remember something like that, but I think it's just to the the help section of our forums.
But I don't think it would prevent much of anything. The colors here are just so different from any other website, as all the other websites I've been on had either a blank color that filled in when they were genetically tested or most of them just had the color already entered at 'birth'. Having the option to put whatever we want in for a color, is just way too tempting (even for me, sometimes putting in orange for a chestnut tries to overtake better judgement ).
Perhaps having a short color quiz to open up the option to fill in your horse's color may be a better choice, but I don't like taking what we can already do and making it suddenly restricted, regardless of whether it may make it easier on the rest of us because colors, although arguably an integral part of the game, do not really change the base game-play.
I really think we need to continue to educate by offering examples and that's the 'best' we could do. Maybe our color forum could use an overhaul. We have great guides but maybe we could do more? I don't really have a suggestion for that though.
However, I am excited for when genetic testing comes out. Then having pre-set color options could be auto-filled when the testing is complete. Searching for appropriate colors would be great and easy at that point, insofar as those that have been tested.

[wolfHhowling]

I get even more confused by the color guides, and honestly my friend who is heavy into genetics is even slightly confused as to what is what. Like i have horses I have no idea what they are, because they are so in-between its not funny. Only horses I have were 100% sure on is the two black ones i have lol. I can't wait for genetic testing, because then I'll be able to figure it out a lot easier. Not to mention, it makes it easier to breed for colors. I'm so confused, the help guides confuse me more. Also, in real life people do have to genetically color test horses to stay away from the fatal white genes present in many horse breeds. So now a days its a lot easier to confirm you have such and such. so I am waiting on bated breath for the genetic testing for this game. Because I love this game, but the colors were fusterating.

[flrancho]

I can see both sides. I don't know a lot of the rarer colors and would sometimes like them to be automatically filled in, while I can see the fun that other players have with trying to determine the color. That said, it was kind of irritating when I sold a purebred Tarpan colt a few weeks ago which I had labeled as a "bay dun" and the new owner switched his color to "blue roan". :/ Tarpans don't even come in roan - especially purebred ones.

[Silverine]

I could agree with have a few pre-sets. Maybe have a 'base' value of color - pre-sets for black, brown, bay, chestnut then have the actual color to be filled in with whatever.
I've seen my fair share of duns being called blue roans or even our notorious pseudo-whites. I do certainly like being able to search for colors, but if they don't have a color or if it's wrong, so many are so easily overlooked or missed.

Personally I think what might be a better idea is, once genetic testing is released, to be able to search for a specific genetic combination. Like you only want to see black-based horses so you search for stallions that are a/a and have at least one E. That way it wouldn't matter what people write in for the color as there really are a lot of wrong ones, and of course the players that just don't feel like bothering. You'd still have to learn the genetics if you wanted something specific and anyone that bothers to learn would be able to easily find what they were looking for.

[BlackOak2]

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Oh yes! I certainly am another waiting for genetic testing!

Cryptic colors can be so... bothersome...