So
you want to breed your wild-tails....
Even
though Wild-Tails ARE mainly magical creatures you will still
have the ability to breed them, this will be done through the
Crystal Palace Forums, and limited spots will be open. Half of
the breeding's will be specific choices from people for sires
and dams, and the other half will be totally randomly generated.
This
will be done by entering ALL the wild-tails who are interested
in breeding numbering them all then using a random generator to
pick the breeding pairs. Not only does this ensure that people
are able to breed colour combinations that THEY particularly want,
but also introduces a lovely wildcard element so that due to some
*hidden* genes some really REALLY exotic wild-tails come up.
After
breeding it takes about 3 weeks to a month for the off-spring
to turn up, these appear as large painted eggs to begin with,
often with colours and markings echoing their future developement
and then due to the magic inerrant in the atmosphere mature into
fully grown Wild-Tails and are then available for adoption.
Anyone
can adopt the off-spring regardless of how they came about, and
it will be very much first come first served so all is fair.
Genetics.....Oh
Boy..
Yes
I can hear you groaning from here, but don't worry these ARE going
to be simple, because I am gonna be colouring the buggers and
don't see why I should make my life more complex than it already
is.
Colour
wise I have adopted a paint pallet approach to genetics, I have
tried to make the colour codes as simple as possible, and lower
case are recessive and upper case are dominant. Black darkens
everything, and White lightens everything very much like a paint
box and palette.
Below
is a chart to illustrate how I am going to work out the colour
patterns, please take note these aren't the actual colours the
spectrum as you will know is a lot larger than this...but it gives
you an idea.
Colours
Patterns
Now
as well as colours also pattern will play a part in deciding
what new Wild-Tails will look like...
So
as well as a colour string, each one will have a pattern string...unless
it's a total solid., some patterns like Iridescent will be very
VERY rare that its expressed. Obviously not all patterns are
listed here but if gives you some idea, I will add more as I
go along. Code is the letters in BOLD.
Just
to give you some heads up I am experimenting at the moment with
specific jungle patterns, like Zebra and Tiger stripes, and
Leopard/Jaguar/Cheetah Spots :)
Markings
below
is the markings that could be in your Wild-Tails genetic code
as well...yes complex complex :)
The
Really Fun And Weird Stuff
Right
we all know by now that Wild-Tails are magical creatures yadda
yadda and although the first batch WILL be predominantly equine,
later there will be some exotic additions..
And
before you go thinking "hey hey I can breed to get loads
of exotic traits" stop right there, because only *I* will
know what your Wild-Tail carries that will be expressed next
generation. And whenever new breeding's start I will look at
my records and plan the new additions accordingly. Mwahhhahhahhhahhah
In the event
that 2 different types of the same mutation so to speak needs
to be expressed I'll decide which with the roll of the dice
:).
Unicorn
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Bull
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Ram
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Stag
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Demon
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Fairy
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Butterfly
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Dragonfly
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Angel
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Bug
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Dragon
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Before
you go....just to make it a little more complex....
I
will be making concept driven batches of Wild-Tails from time
to time, these are also fully breed able but will also contain
certain concept traits.
For
instance jewel encrusted bottoms, jeweled hooves and eyes with
the jeweled series..
They
WILL also have a chance of passing on in breeding's, fun eh!!!
and will be determined by a random roll of the dice.
I
have colour-coded the coding initials for ease of reading, and
you will be aware of the codes in red, blue and green...pink
codes only I will be aware of and will be hidden from general
view...
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