《Y'all, I am in desperate search of the Batinson companion. He is so cute. Please message me if you have one you're willing to sell, or with information on where/when it will be available again?? Thanks!》

Hello everyone. Please feel free to message me if you'd like to chat. I like to talk about in-game projects and strategies, and I can offer support and resources if needed. So just reach out if you ever need anything. I am also open to chatting about faith. I would be more than happy to assist you in any way that I can.

• College student, 23 y/o

• Baptist- inactive on Sundays

My current project ideas:                                                        

I plan to breed my foundation Appaloosas using the back breeding technique.

For reference, line breeding is when you breed two horses together until they produce a male and a female offspring. Then you breed those offspring together, and keep repeating that process.

Back breeding is when you breed two horses, but then breed the offspring back to a parent. So it would look like this: Your mare and stallion produce a colt. Then you breed that colt with your mare, and they produce a filly. Now you breed your filly and colt together, until they produce their own colt, which you then breed back to the filly. And so on. 

So what's the difference? Line breeding has higher GP increases per generation. So in that sense, it is 'faster'. However, you would need to BLUP more horses.

For example, let's say you have a mare and a stallion with GPs of 6000. You decide to line breed them. Your 5th generation foals would have 6658 GP*, and you'd need to BLUP 8 horses to get there.

Now if you decided to back breed them instead. Your 5th generation foal would only have 6475 GP*, but you've only BLUPed 5 horses.

So the methods are comparable, and I would say the biggest deciding factor is how many resources you are willing to put into BLUPing, and is it worth the extra GP to you?

*Of course, actual GP gains are affected by the current highest horse in the game, and each foal falls into a range based on random chance. So this is just an estimate using the current averages for the sake of comparison.