I feel like all this will do is make it even harder to make my horses desirable for breeding/sale. It's already hard enough.

The generation and inbreeding mentality in wolfplay totally ruined that game for me. I really don't want that here too. Especially since it has no impact on the quality of foals. People will still act like it does regardless and it sucks.

edit: Paying to test would be helpful and maybe not even displaying it on the horse page at all. I also hope it would be VERY obvious to new players that it has zero effect on breeding. Having it there as a static could confuse people into thinking it matters in the game.

I understand the concerns about it. When a game has a stat for inbreeding it's very rarely ignored by the community, so there is a real threat in elitism. However, if this would just be optional to reveal, and separate from genetic testing, then everyone could choose to not reveal it in the first place. Also regarding stud/brood rules... If the straw hoarding issue is so hard to solve, what power would anyone have to enforce COI-related breeding rules to their horses?

I voted yes - as long as it has no affect on breeding of course -, simply because I personally am curious to see this, and because this could also give a nice challenge to people who would want to take COI into account when breeding.

Since this wouldn't affect the quality of horses in any way, and high quality + low generation/non-inbred horses are pretty hard to come by here (how many wild WWWs are there AND land high on LBs?), I don't think a COI stat behind a paywall (however low) would have as big an effect on HEE.

Stormsong Manor said:

Support. A lot of us are constantly trying to analyze and improve our stock, and every little bit of extra data helps in those calculations

HRS said:

I understand the concerns about it. When a game has a stat for inbreeding it's very rarely ignored by the community, so there is a real threat in elitism. However, if this would just be optional to reveal, and separate from genetic testing, then everyone could choose to not reveal it in the first place. Also regarding stud/brood rules... If the straw hoarding issue is so hard to solve, what power would anyone have to enforce COI-related breeding rules to their horses?