How do I tell if a horse is purebred?

[dep1891]

I know you can click through all of the names, but is there a faster way? It seems like some people are able to tell me within five minutes?!

[Rain]

Nope. Clicking through the names is the only way.

[Zimmy]

Yup... some people can tell quickly because they are already aware of really known lines in certain breeds (pure or impure) and know that they can stop looking when they hit certain horses... but in reality that just means they have gone through lines by clicking on each horse SO many times that they have begun to memorise.

There are some other things that I look for in certain breeds... for instance a non inbred, short lined, pure TB is not likely to be somewhat tempered and it's not gonna be spirited... it will be very or somewhat docile instead (Most early gen non inbred pure horses will... but only non inbred and short lined). Some breeds however are naturally very docile... and will be so even when crossed... so it is hardly a sure fire way to tel, you STILL have to click on all of the horses.

[dep1891]

oh yuck that sucks I wish they could come out with a way to just have it on the horse but i know that would take up wayy too much time and effort

[Zimmy]

oh yuck that sucks I wish they could come out with a way to just have it on the horse but i know that would take up wayy too much time and effort

That would take away part of the challenge of breeding pure only lines... for me it would be very unsatisfying to have everyone be able to check so easily, devaluing the work that I have done to insure that my horses listed as pure are indeed pure.

[Ricecrispies4eva]

oh yuck that sucks I wish they could come out with a way to just have it on the horse but i know that would take up wayy too much time and effort

That would take away part of the challenge of breeding pure only lines... for me it would be very unsatisfying to have everyone be able to check so easily, devaluing the work that I have done to insure that my horses listed as pure are indeed pure.

I disagree Zim, sorry

While I can understand where your coming from, as I too put a lot of work into my pure lines, I don't see how it 'devalues' your work. At the end of the day the horse will still be pure. However, I agree that it does take away the challenge and essentially part of the 'fun' in going through generations upon generations of the horse to find out if it's pure

I'd find it incredibly useful if it listed on the horse whether it was pure or not, or even a button like 'check purity' and it costed you some playcash or RL $$ to check. It will probably never happen, so what does it matter though, eh.

[Rain]

The problem with having a button that "checks for purity" is that it would be incredibly complicated to code because technically, no horses except thoroughbreds can be pure the way they're coded. If you look at the parents of foundation horses, it says they're unknown thoroughbreds. So even if a horse is pure, I'm sure a code wouldn't count them as such because they all have TBs in their lines.

[Ricecrispies4eva]

The problem with having a button that "checks for purity" is that it would be incredibly complicated to code because technically, no horses except thoroughbreds can be pure the way they're coded. If you look at the parents of foundation horses, it says they're unknown thoroughbreds. So even if a horse is pure, I'm sure a code wouldn't count them as such because they all have TBs in their lines.

Yeah, exactly that. Which is why I don't think it will happen.

[Zimmy]

oh yuck that sucks I wish they could come out with a way to just have it on the horse but i know that would take up wayy too much time and effort

That would take away part of the challenge of breeding pure only lines... for me it would be very unsatisfying to have everyone be able to check so easily, devaluing the work that I have done to insure that my horses listed as pure are indeed pure.

I disagree Zim, sorry

While I can understand where your coming from, as I too put a lot of work into my pure lines, I don't see how it 'devalues' your work. At the end of the day the horse will still be pure.

If I spent the hours putting effort into insuring pure lines, why would I want everyone else to be able to get a free pass to do the same thing I worked hard to do? To me it would be similar to the game event training horses FOR new players instead of them having to learn to do it like the rest of us. I think some pure breeds would become next to worthless if it was just that simple... as well as taking away from the challenge of finding that really great horse on the market in a breed that it hard to find pure... I have spent many hours going through every horse in a breed listed for sale to find the ONLY pures to roll and breed...

Devalue=To lessen or cancel the value of. (and that means both monetarily and in the time/effort that I have put in).

[Hawk]

Certainly won't happen, not only do all breeds lead back to TB's, we also have horses with missing horses in their bloodlines from the purge way way way back in the great reset era. Also, with how long some of these horses bloodlines are, can you begin to imagine the resources it would take on the server to have to keep an indexed searchable list of of every single horses bloodlines? We're talking millions of horses, millions of pieces of data it would have to search through every time someone wanted to check if a horse is pure. The lag alone would make it quicker to just hit the view bloodline button over and over. lol

[dep1891]

I can see where you're all coming from, at this point, I've just learned to accept that I'll always have to click through and figured that you can usually tell just by clicking straight through the mothers and straight through the fathers. (I only do this to figure out quicker if they are impure, if I don't see anything, then I check the long way)

[Chione]

Even if it could happen, I think there are more important things for Nef to worry about