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Haha, I know! I was just going to edit my post to add this: I always trade and buy straws and eggs and therefore have a bunch in the freezer from game years ago and can’t remeber their restrictions. So for me, they are either kept as show ponies or yummed, never sold or auctioned no matter if they’re altered or not. I just can’t keep track of their restrictions, so I play it safe for their owners.

Gemfish, absolutely.

I just so seldom share. Call me possessive or whatever, but whatever intact (or otherwise) cross that is the result of my freezer I will keep or yum. I love this game, but I’ve known from the beginning I can’t keep track of in house rules, who’s allowed what and so on, so I always keep everything.
Unless they are from regular creates I think I can sell to someone who actually wants them.

Lol I just filled my 4th 1000stall barn because I only share once a year, if that. I keep everything I breed and only auction off some new foundation creates that got spayed from testing.

If it helps, by definition your line can't have much of a reputation if it's completely inhouse, and it's not very many generations before 'your line' doesn't get to dominate the other lines in a horse's pedigree. I also very rarely share my pixels (but that might have more to do with me being a pony hoarder) and I'm frequently surprised when a descendant from one of my horses pops up for sale. The most obvious one is an Ice 1 line...

Also consider that that in-house etiquette is also a largely unspoken idea. I suspect the people that are most familiar with it are what I would consider the old guard, players that have been around for years, and sometimes we assume that newer players know things we take for granted when they're just not that obvious. It's almost never malicious.

It also ultimately doesn't hurt your line, or your strain of a gene, or whatever. Like my Ice 1 stallion. At some point, somehow, a 3rd or 4th generation foal of his got woven into the junk ice that was going around a while back (which isn't even a thing anymore, really). I don't for a second think anybody was looking at those foals and seeing my stud way back in the foundation line and deciding all his descendants are worthless. Even I, as the "owner" of that line, ultimately don't care and don't go out of my way to look for them. I'm more focused on my own quality, and his 4th gen *Star/*Gold progeny.

I don't remember Mr Ninja, must have been before I joined the game, and I've been around for a fair while now. 6 years or something I think?.

However, I do have outside horses in my barns, or foals from outside horses. I recently gelded one son I had from a straw, because I remembered to check the old rules after it became possible to comp test him to his sire which is now deceased and I did not own said sire. He didn't test superior so I gelded him. I did keep his son though, since he papered Star. I figured that would be good enough to keep the grandson. Like other said, I follow the honor system, but there have been times that I've forgotten about rules especially if it was a few generations or years down the line from the time I used the straw or egg.

I tend to keep my stallions in house, and rarely stand them public. If I do stand them public, I do my best not to look at their foals that aren't mine, lol. It would be nice if the breeders used at least mares of the same generation, but I know there are people that breed for show horses, or more recent players that just don't play by the old unspoken rules. It is what it is. I just do my best not to get uptight about it.

Did I misunderstand something? Were you not talking about someone sharing from a clone? A clone has nothing to do with the line of the horse it was cloned from. I would never ask someone to keep a clone in house. There is no way to trace the clone to/from the original foundation, so I can't see how that would affect the desireability of the original?

I have to say, I have never even considered that someone would place rules on a clone I have bought/been gifted. I consider them "my own" line :O

Clones of lined horses are still lined. They don't turn into foundations.

Teehee i just looked at my show horse line that come from old lines from the old leaderboard. They go back to Mr Ninja i believe. We all wanted those lines at the time!