There are a number of things that have changed from Version 1. If you own horses from Version 1 please see the list below to check if any of these affect you. Almost all changes have to do with customs and breedings. Many old pass rates of things like chimeric and birdcatcher spots are redundant - please be aware of new pass rates to avoid any disappointments when breeding.
General Changes
- Disciplines introduced.
General Breedings and Customs Changes
- Breedings and customs are limited to 1 per user every month. This resets at CS rollover at the end of the 31st of each month. Change reverted.
- Breedings are only available when an artist opens slots.
- Limited genes cannot be requested in customs.
- All Feroxes have 5 breeding slots - horses from V1 that have surpassed their slot limit cannot breed again.
- Breedings now have a chance to produce twins, a chimeric, or genetic faults such as somatic.
Non-Passing Genes
- The macchiato gene has been discontinued and cannot pass to offspring (macchiato horses can still be bred).
- Brindle (non-chimeric), somatic, and appaloosa mismarks cannot pass to offspring.
- Mules cannot breed.
Gene Pass Rates Changes
- Chimeric now always passes at 15% 20% if a parent is chimeric. Updated to 20%
- Pangare is no longer shown as +pangare, and instead is the "P" gene. All horses with +pangare in their genome from V1 are considered to be Pp (homozygous for pangare). You can update the genome of your own horse in your stable. If you would like it officially noted then please contact myself or Lavellan and we will put a notice up on the original adoption page of the horse. If you breed a pangare horse, staff may put up this notice regardless for their own benefit.
- Non-genetic traits (which have really inconsistent pass rates in Version 1) now have standardised pass rates that are based on their rarity. Bloodmarks/bloody shoulder, chubari spots, gulastra plume, bider marks, cornmarks, grease spots, birdcatcher spots, and lacing are all non-genetic traits. Common traits pass at a 50% chance, Uncommon at 25%, Rare at 10% and Limited at 5%. You can find out which category the gene belongs to by checking the gene table in the Information Hub.
- If the pass rate for a gene from your V1 horse is not listed anywhere (for example, extreme dun factor currently doesn't have a standard pass rate in version 2) and you want to breed your horse, staff may use the original pass rate, assign it a pass rate (which will then apply to all horses with that gene) or may choose to not account for that gene when breeding. If it is important to you to have that gene pass, you can raise it with staff and we will choose a new pass rate.