Hello!! Genuine question here

Before I went on hiatus from Lioden, clean breeding definitely did exist. But... coming back to the game, it feels so bizarre- it feels like lions can hardly sell if they're *not* clean??? It's way more extreme than it used to be. For a gameplay mechanic that doesn't affect anything, I don't understand why?

To clarify, I used to care about the lore of my lions A LOT. And for that reason, I wouldn't inbreed them within my own pride. Not a choice that matters whatsoever to gameplay, it just avoided me having to explain that in my lore. But I'm seeing lions classified as "dirty" even if you have to go back a few generations just to get the "There's ___ possible instances of inbreeding" mention in their heritage. How does that matter to lore, they're so far removed that your lions wouldn't know of them?? You can just pretend it's not there, basically

Again I hope this doesn't come across as rude... just confused. Very confused.

(And a tad frustrated, because I'm a beauty breeder 100%. But it's difficult to get lions for my breeding projects, because if they're clean-lined, they're usually pretty plain. If they're dirty, I know it'll be a pain to sell their cubs for seemingly no reason. If they're clean-lined AND pretty, they're too expensive to just buy as a breeder. I feel like this problem would be just as bad for stats breeders, but I'm not too familiar with that area)

So yeah, just asking the community... why is there suddenly such a huge emphasis on a gameplay mechanic that has existed as long as breeding itself has, has no effect on the game, and is *still* considered just as bothersome if you have to go back a few generations just to see it?

((I do understand a level of discomfort if the "there's __ possible instances of inbreeding" like, right on your lion's page, but after a few generations I see no reason why the dirty line couldn't be considered "bred out" and no longer a concern))
((I mean. I'm sure humans are pretty inbred if you go back far enough. Like, every single person with blue eyes has a common ancestor. But most of us aren't considered inbred because as far back in our family history as is relevant to us, we don't see it. Hope the comparison makes sense to illustrate my point of dirty breeding being 'bred out' and shouldn't matter if we can't immediately see it))


Edit: I guess my proposal here, if we're trying to solve a problem, is a "bred-out clean" (or whatever you'd call it) community where we consider lions clean if there's no inbreeding immediately on their page. Yk. Get a lil movement going. Or at least sell to each other prices we agree are fair for what we'd consider clean.
Maybe if we see the tag "BOC" or "BC" (for bred-clean) that means it's clean-enough for those who agree?

Edit: Clan making in progress!!
Lions with the FIRST PAGE of their heritage completely clean, but may not be clean further down the line, will be tagged as BC, meaning bred-out clean, or bred-to-clean, or simply bred-clean. Idk exactly the long form, but either way, acronym is BC. So feel free to look for BC on the Trading Center as a tag.

This will be beneficial to breeding projects (won't make things Too easy, you can't inbred within the same page over and over until you get like, identical lions, nono. But still keeps a fair amount of challenge without needing to find a lioness that's completely clean and probably therefore plain or too expensive), the market (there's way too hard of a divide between dirty and clean right now), and those who value clean-breeding for a sense of "look what I did, with my own line!" can still keep the clean tag for themselves.

Real-life source: "For practical purposes, if two mated individuals have no common ancestor within the last five or six generations, their progeny would be considered outbreds." this is about the length of the first page of heritage in Lioden, so it adds up!!