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Post by azalea2412 on Oct 23, 2010 17:03:00 GMT -5
When I first started playing with Petz almost 10 years ago, inbreeding was considered extremely taboo except for selective breeds. And this was way before petza and speed breeding. To speed things up you had to mess with your computer calender. Now almost everyone seems to inbreed. I am working on an alley cat breeding project trying to get all the different colors. I have been breeding different pairs until they produce a mutant and then say I get 2 white kittens I breed them together hoping to get another white one and so on. With each generation it gets easier to get the desired color but a fair number of the original orange keeps popping up. This is an extremely time consuming project. I have been wondering if inbreeding will help. How do you guys do it? Are there still a fair number of people who reject inbreeding? Also if I ever get to generation 9 I am thinking about tree trimming it back to generation 8 to hopefully erase the standard orange present in every 1st generation out of their gene info. Has anyone else tried this and does it work?
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Post by Rinkái on Oct 23, 2010 17:06:57 GMT -5
Inbreeding is just normal. It's just pixels, after all.
Most people inbreed, and it does encourage mutation. Mostly I start with four petz, and breed the seperate pairs until I get mutations and then breed the mutated ones. Again, I only breed mutated ones to others, but it doesn't matter if they're related or not to me.
Some people do like non-inbred petz, but personally I don't see the point.
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Post by Rhubarb on Oct 23, 2010 17:14:17 GMT -5
So many people inbreed these days, that people tend to like non-inbreds, pretty much just because they're 'rare'. Though, I've never met anyone who had only non-inbred petz. Most people aren't really bothered as to whether they're inbred or not. (Like me, ^^, xD).
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Post by cath on Oct 23, 2010 17:19:15 GMT -5
Inbreeding definitely helps with mutations, so if you really want to get rid of the original orange, it would probably be best to just keep selecting mutated cats and breeding them together, regardless of whether they're related or not.
Personally, inbreeding doesn't bother me whatsoever - like Kay said, they are just pixels. However I do like non-inbred petz, and if I have non-inbred petz, I will generally keep them separate from my inbred ones (just personal preference/slight OCD). Like I always say, non-inbred petz are more of a bonus than anything, but definitely not compulsory.
With tree-trimming, I'm pretty sure that just makes the pet more like an AC adopted pet, regardless of what mutations the remaining tree-line has. Every time I tree-trim, I've noticed that if I breed the pet, their offspring are less likely to mutate, eg. Calis with the patches bred out really far back in their lineage, then they're tree-trimmed, and their kittens will pop up with patches again. HOWEVER I COULD BE WRONG about how tree-trimming works. I never really do it unless the file is literally crashing the game. xD
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Post by Neco on Oct 23, 2010 18:17:15 GMT -5
I thought tree trimming just reduced file size? I know some people are like OMG NOOOO I NEED TO SEE PAST GENERATIONZ but if there is a pet that someone sends me that's 10 freaking mb, yeah I'm gonna trim it lol. I have no idea if it plays any part in affecting mutations or anything, since I can breed a pet I've trimmed and still get some swanky mutated colors out of it.
I don't inbreed parents/children or sibling/sibling personally but who knows what some of my petz were bred to before I had them haha! That being said, I only "inbreed" my OB mixies - my PKC pets and FRH line are definitely not inbred because more of Loki stupidity x Loki stupidity would be a fail.
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Post by Hazel on Oct 24, 2010 8:19:25 GMT -5
I don't inbreed any of my petz. I'm currently doing a selective breeding and it takes a lot of time and patience, but being a perfectionist I like it that way ;D. However, if I adopt from people, I don't mind if the pet is 99% inbred since I'm not a person that only adopts for breeding purpose. After learning that mutations are more likely to happen if you inbreed, I tried it out of curiosity - but I wasn't really impressed by the outcome. It's true though, colors mutate more often... I think there are a lot of breeders who don't feel like spending ages on their projects, when the only motivation is having non-inbred lines. If you tree-trimm you remove earlier generations and the game doesn't have recourse to them, so I'd say you CAN erase gene info... not speaking from personal experience .
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Post by Arty on Oct 24, 2010 8:37:45 GMT -5
If you tree-trim, it reduces some of the petz in the linage to "Trimmed by PetzA" or something and so it appears as more inbred or inbred, so if you're not inbreeding that particular line, do NOT tree-trim.
Inbreeding is VERY common in today's adoptable bred petz. Unless you particularly breed a line yourself or find somebody who breeds a non-inbred line, the chances of you adopting a pet with 70-90% inbreeding is very high. But then also the chances of you getting lines from 10+ years ago are also higher because those inbred petz are a cumulation of lines from years ago and recent lines.
But that isn't to say everybody breeds siblings together and what-not, but it's inevitable that you will get a pet inbred from years ago.
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Post by Becca@Sungraze on Oct 24, 2010 8:52:34 GMT -5
With mixes, I couldn't care less if it was inbred. However, I seem to only adopt non-inbred purebreds. >.>
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Post by Batspam on Oct 24, 2010 9:02:43 GMT -5
I try why best not to inbreed my pets. Not because I think its "wrong" or "Cruel" because like kay said, they are fake animals. But I think I may have some kind of phobea. I know there nothing wrong with it but it makes me cringe at the thought. I still adopt in-bred kitties though, I guess I just dont want to be the one in-breding them becuase If I didnt do it than I dont mind.
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