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.