howrsehelp

OK, I have purchased a few horses (Appy's) in the Auctions. I look for IS, then price, then look to see if BOTH parents are 100BLUP. New to the GP stuff, I bought mine before I reached RL4.

I have noticed though, that there a quite a few that have low to nil IS but are greenstars. What are the better horses. No greenstar with IS or Greenstar with no IS. Or should you take the GP into account also.

I'am a little confused.

I go for GP. Invorn skills are nice, but GP is better. I've also noticed that there a bunch of greenstar foals being born with no Inborn skills. I think that is annoying. Nothing bothers me more than people who just breed as many horses as they can and never do any training!

The green stars with no IS are from parents without +100BLUP. I agree it is annoying. I prefer both as the IS will give you a horse with better skills later in life and I can board them in my EC thus contributing to a higher prestige for my EC.

Thanks to both of you. Now I know I am heading in the right direction.

Bluebunnysq wrote:I go for GP. Invorn skills are nice, but GP is better. I've also noticed that there a bunch of greenstar foals being born with no Inborn skills. I think that is annoying. Nothing bothers me more than people who just breed as many horses as they can and never do any training!

I think what you see happening (with Greenstars but no IS, thus breeding without training) is the influence of children playing this game.

I became interested in this game watching my son play it. Then I read a little on the site. I encouraged him to train his horses. So he trains them . . . an hour or two, sometimes not. I starting playing to persuade him of the value of training, and got sucked in. My objective is to train and develop quality. His objective is to get attractive babies, and he is too impatient to wait for training to be done, first.

It is interesting how this is fun for children and adults but for entirely different reasons. I think we are both fairly typical, too.

Actually I find it seriously annoying seeing greenstars with no inborn skills, and non greenstarts with inborn skills, for this simple motive: I train all my horses to 100 BLUP before breeding them, and I don't get to sell them because they're not yet greenstars (only recently we got greenstar Connies).
But people that got a greenstar mare and covered her with a greenstar stud got a greenstar horse with no inborn skills that they can sell. It seriously makes me feel like breeding after 100 BLUP is useless if it gives you no advantage when selling.

Definitely go for greenstars first. You can always add skills to your howrses, and GP is what really matters anyway, at least when it comes to breeding. You mentioned taking GP into consideration. If you do want to take that under account, then go for greenstars.