-LOCKED - Marking Opacity During Breeding
Posted on 2022-04-30 14:33:19
Due to some oversight on breeding mechanics regarding the passing of markings (as reported in this bug topic), there has been some misleading information passed down over the life of the game. We want to rectify that today, change how it works for a more friendly solution, and give our deepest apologies for not catching it sooner than today.

Before today:

When breeding markings, there was a 75% chance of a marking passing if both parents had a matching marking in the same slot, otherwise 50% chance of a marking passing. Once a marking passed, its opacity would then be averaged across the parent's opacities for that slot, and then randomised with a -10 to +10 range. Here is the oversight: if a marking's opacity dropped to below 1% due to the randomisation, the marking was then removed.

We are changing it to this:

When breeding markings, there is a 75% chance of a marking passing if both parents have a matching marking in the same slot, otherwise 50% chance of a marking passing. Once a marking passes, its opacity is then averaged across the parent's opacities for that slot, and then randomised with a -10 to +10 range. If the marking's opacity drops to below 1% due to the randomisation, it will be corrected to 1% and will remain on the lion.

Additional information:

* If a marking's opacity rolls over 100%, it will be corrected to 100%. It has not changed, and has always worked this way.

We're really sorry this happened, and we'd like to thank everyone for all their input. We hope going forward this will be a reasonable solution.



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Arret Rea (#138617)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:35:58
marking newwwwwws lol



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kitchy koo (#227403)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:35:58
Yay! Newwssss!



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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:01
Newwsssssss



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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:06
Yay! Thanks for addressing this (it was really confusing haha)



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Vinny Claws :3 (#172263)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:07
Alright! Thanks for announcement!



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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:13
Thank you for clarifying and most importantly for making this change! It means a lot to players knowing that we're actually heard by the admins with big things like this.



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tori (#124549)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:18
woo news!!!



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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:35
Finally!



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Quills (#159159)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:40
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR FIXING THIS.
I heard about this a few days ago and was really annoyed knowing I'd messed up my chances with my breeding projects and could have gotten better results sooner had I increased the opacity of the markings.

What a relief I dont have to worry about it anymore, thanks so so much!



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Chat Noir (#38732)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:36:50
Honestly, this answered my confusion about how markings worked. I could find the wiki page for bases and how those passed, but the only markings wiki I could find was a list of the different ones, not how the genetics work. I'm really excited to have this info!



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T [FROZEN] (#270544)

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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:37:29
huh, interesting. i wonder how noticeable this will be



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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:38:10
Glad this was rectified so quickly after it was made known



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Swyfte [Teardrop
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Posted on
2022-04-30 14:38:41
Thank you so much for handling this quickly and reasonably. Just asking to clarify, does this still mean if a marking is below 21% opacity, there is a lesser chance of it passing?

Edit to ask: and will you be refunding the people who went and bought tons of opacity changers to help their projects and slots?


Admin Response:
No, that's not the case. Opacity no longer has any impact on marking passing whatsoever.

If you were part of the bug thread that was posted yesterday, and went to purchase opacity changers whilst reading the discussions and now, after the change posted in this news post, would prefer to have them refunded, you're welcome to open a Modbox ticket for this and we'll see what we can do.


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Edited on 30/04/22 @ 14:41:25 by Swyfte [Olive RLC] (#3623)



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