The genetics for horses appears to be broken. I tested it in CAS for awhile. The only things that appear to change are eye color, mane and tail colors and hooves, as well as body shapes. The body colors and patterns only copy from one parent or the other. There is no mixing whatsoever, so alteration of coloring, nothing. This is monumentally disappointing for me, as the genetics is my main way to play. Please fix this.
I totally agree. I wish they made it like it is in sims 3. Where the baby get a 50/50 mix from both parents.
I agree, genetics are disappointing and boring right now.
I suggest to do like Cats & Dogs and put more coat colors variations to breds so the foals can also inherit those "recessive" coat colors and we can get a nice surprise when we breed.
We finally got horses for the Sims 4 🤯
and it's been fun...if you don't care about legacy breeding. Unlike with the dogs and cats under the same title, and especially unlike with how it functioned in the Sims 3... every single baby horse that you get from breeding horses in the game ends up looking like an exact clone of only one parent. No more coat crossing, coat mixing, color blending, nothing. It's just the same. Horse. You just raised already. Nothing new about it except maybe a couple advanced stats and embedded personality.
As someone who spend literally hundreds of hours doing nothing but playing with horses in TS3 and creating a legacy lineage, it was soo exciting to see what combination of coats and colours the parents would pass on to their offspring. When I first bred the horses I spent hours designing (with a very awkward, confusing, and generally lacking CAS system) their appearance, I was soo excited to see what they would produce. First foal came out looking like momma. Nothing but a hair colour change marked any sort of distinction between her and her parent. I thought OK wow maybe that was just luck! So I bred them again...and again...and again... and each and every single time it was, essentially, the same horse getting respawned as a newborn. What was the point of all that work with the frustrating CAS tools only to find out their appearance genetics were... nonexistent. It's like I've been stuck in a Dolly the sheep project and honestly has begun to kill any desire I had at all to bother with them. What's the point of letting the horses age and pass away if their legacy is just...them on repeat. Multiple foals with the same parents? Suddenly twins between gestations....
Please tell me this is going to be fixed. It really sucked the fun out of breeding at all and makes me want to just turn off pet aging, which is just putting a wet wrag on the problem
i agree, this was my main reason to buy and play the pack since i love breeding my own dogs and sometimes cats i was so excited to start with horses but i haven't played the game anymore after spending already way too much money for what you get on this pack to just found out the foals are a simple copy paste from its parents...
