I wish breeding had more unique positive traits and not just skills we stick on horses

Originally posted by chebonaparte:

I wish breeding had more unique positive traits and not just skills we stick on horses

That would be pretty cool, actually. It would make breeding more complex to get certain perks/traits with each generation, and add more depth to the racing and steeplechasing aspects I think.

hey love ur work with the game but please can u add a photo finish for all races not just ones that are close to see please!

Originally posted by Mio:

Originally posted by Morgruff:

I believe the idea is to breed out legacy horses that are better with each generation (for me it's usually 1 in 8-10 foals are good) and carry on the legacy. i think its meant to give more of an immersive bloodline/breeding system that also allows an experience bonus (15%) for your legacy horses. if you dont like the feature, you could not use it and have a rotting grade 3 horse, or you can breed out a new legacy horse thats grade 10 and make it useful. hope this helps.

edit: also gold is really, really easy to make now with all the competition options, so im not sure why not enough gold would be an issue lol

Yes, I understand the idea and I don't blame them for adding it, because they can expand it in the future (which I hope they will). I actually spent about 30 minutes non-stop breeding my legacy horse and the problem was that all the foals still had stats on D (occasionally one C). That's why I don't agree with the fact that they are getting better with each generation, instead they are dragged by poor statistics. I just don't see why they can't give us a horse with B or A stats.
And when it comes to gold I meant that this is a problem for beginners, and this update allows them to create their dream horse for free, without having to use the custom creation tab.

I started a new save just for this update and i already have a bunch of gold from steeplechase and xc. like, a few hundred thousand at level 5.
also, if you get one that has even one better stat, you can set it as the new legacy and use it to breed a better one. try using studs with good stats and keep breeding them. you wont get the high stats handed to you, you have to keep trying for them. time and effort towards a goal is what makes a game, a game.

Originally posted by chebonaparte:

I wish breeding had more unique positive traits and not just skills we stick on horses

like what? im intrigued

I don't get the point? We already aim to breed good horses in the game and the core mechanics of the game should support that. Why the need for a random special legacy horse rather than the ones I spent time breeding until now? It seems like a weird thing to add at this stage in the game that makes my existing best horses suddenly less valuable to me.

That's disappointing, I'd been checking daily to see if the Selle had been added yet since the announcement was made late last year.
The idea of a legacy horse is nice, but I've done this myself when I started the game. The current rank 10 horse I have is a descendant of the very first horse I got in the game.

no new breeds yet </3

Originally posted by joltje:

I don't get the point? We already aim to breed good horses in the game and the core mechanics of the game should support that. Why the need for a random special legacy horse rather than the ones I spent time breeding until now? It seems like a weird thing to add at this stage in the game that makes my existing best horses suddenly less valuable to me.

You don't have to get the legacy horse if you don't want it. It's just a different thing they added for people who might be interested in that aspect of breeding, and it's optional.

Originally posted by Westraid:

That's disappointing, I'd been checking daily to see if the Selle had been added yet since the announcement was made late last year.
The idea of a legacy horse is nice, but I've done this myself when I started the game. The current rank 10 horse I have is a descendant of the very first horse I got in the game.

They stated in the update that descendants of the "legacy horse" get additional stat bonuses, when compared to your other home-bred horses.

I have been trying to breed perfect horses for ages, they are very far and almost nonexistent. Now level 3 is all D's? UGH, this is gonna take forever to breed out......ok just bred to a grade 10 perfect custom (yes I am on desktop) new colt all D's really not even a tiny improvement?

Thank you for the awesome new update :)

Man this really didn't offer anything for established players :/ whats the point of it having a special horse with an "exp boost" when it already takes so little time to level up a non-legacy horse (as a prestige 20 player). It seems like a fun idea for a new play through though (where you finish the story mode with only legacy horses), but there's already little reason to come back to the game after completion. Oh well, guess I'll continue to wait for the new breed.

Originally posted by xzampx121:

They stated in the update that descendants of the "legacy horse" get additional stat bonuses, when compared to your other home-bred horses.

I know. I've read it. But like I've said, I've already done something similarly and therefore this legacy horse isn't interesting to me, stat bonuses or not.

It's also perfectly okay for people not to enjoy some things. If you're happy with the update, I'm glad for you. But respect the opinions of people that are different from yours.

Originally posted by Westraid:

Originally posted by xzampx121:

They stated in the update that descendants of the "legacy horse" get additional stat bonuses, when compared to your other home-bred horses.

I know. I've read it. But like I've said, I've already done something similarly and therefore this legacy horse isn't interesting to me, stat bonuses or not.

It's also perfectly okay for people not to enjoy some things. If you're happy with the update, I'm glad for you. But respect the opinions of people that are different from yours.

I simply pointed out the fact that the developers mentioned a small perk (unfortunately it's just a XP boost, stats would have been better) that comes with the "legacy" horses. They also have a title and star that differentiates them from your other horses.

Nowhere did I say that you *have* to like or enjoy the update.

I thoroughly enjoyed the rewriting of the start of the story/game to include legacy horse, family history and a new introduction to the characters!
I like having the starter horse now be the legacy horse, one I can pick the colour of. i'm a serial restarter of playthroughs and this blew me away a little. Much love. Seems an update made for a new playthrough and journey rather then a continuing one so I'm definitely biased as a player who does enjoying restarting the game over, and having that suddenly be a fresher experience was a nice surprise.