[ADDED] *Highlight Repeated Names in Pedigrees

My main source of income are my stallions for stud, and when looking for new stallions to take in one of the main things I look at is their pedigrees to check for inbreeding. With the pedigrees now showing an extra generation back, it can be really confusing and frustrating to try and study each horse's pedigree, especially if they have full pedigrees with lots of different symbols and punctuation marks in each of the horse's names, so I thought it would be nice and extremely helpful if pedigrees could either highlight horse's names that are repeated more than once, or like I know AQHA online pedigrees do, is have a small little colored mark next to whatever name is repeated each time it's repeated in the pedigree.

I apologize if this has already been suggested, but this is something I'd really really like to see.


Last edited on 2017-08-10 at 10:50:59 by River

I highly support this- it is a common thing to do in real life, after all.

Very much support as it's done in real. Either astrics or special colored names.

yesssssssssssssssssssssssss, or change the background to a pastel red/blue via mare/stallion that is repeated i dont care, but this is helpful

Yes! My horses inherit their parents names so I often get confused between Adelito III IV and V etc...

I know dumb but that's how RL Andie Pedigrees work XD
So this would be uber helpful.

I have no idea how I would go about doing this from a coding perspective but I'd be happy to give it a try :'D so just.. no promises, but I will try.

♥ !! it's the thought that counts, at least you'll try. thanks abbey!

Abbey, this is one way to do it, assuming the names for the pedigree come from a database query. First create an array and add each horse returned by the query. Then iterate through them with a nested for loop, like

for (int i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
for (int j = i + 1; j < array.length - 1; j++) {
if (array[i] == array[j]) {
//change the background color of the table cells created for array[i] and array[j] to the highlight color }
}
}

This will only be helpful to avoid horses that already have inbreeding in their pedigree, not when breeding. If this is happening I hope we will be able to set up a fictive pedigree for potential pairings, otherwise it's pretty pointless.

This is also not going to help when the ancestor appearing twice is located further back than the current pedigree shows.

@Sue - I originally thought of something similar to that but I'd like to try and avoid additional queries where ever possible, and pedigrees are not currently pulled from one single query. In fact it would be almost impossible to get all horses in a pedigree in a single query.

Last edited on 2017-02-21 at 03:32:10 by Abbey 💕

@Dratini - Well, yes, that's the only point? To show horses who HAVE inbreeding in their pedigrees. If they don't have any inbreeding it's obviously not going to make a difference for them, but then again, horses who don't have inbreeding don't need it, so that doesn't matter. Most people also don't care about horse's who are inbred way way back, but it's not that hard to look at a potential horse's great-great grandparents pedigrees either if someone really cared to check for inbreeding that far back.

@wey - Inbreeding isn't very common in this game, so to me it seems a little pointless to put so much work into something that will NOT appear in most pedigrees anyway.
If linebreeding were more "acceptable", this would have been neat, but that's not the case.

The majority clearly have a different point of view though, I'm just sharing my own opinion.

A lot of my rescue horses have are inbred earlier in their pedigree. I wouldn't say its uncommon, but I also wouldn't call it a huge problem. It would be a nice thing to have for sure, but not everyone would really benefit from it.
Overall, I'm leaning towards support.

I would say bolding over asterisks. All Breed Pedigree is my life source on horse shopping, and for them asterisks represent information, just a slight confusion. Not a major deal, but it's one reason to have it. Arabians also have special meaning with the + and / so I'd prefer bold if there's no reason against it.

Of course it really always entertains me when games rather avoid line breeding, as it's usually a plus in real world horses. My horse goes back to Muscat 3 times up close and people get super excited about it. I'm not really for or against this addition, so I didn't vote. It could make checking easier, but I don't know that it's that hard as it is.

@Dratini - I disagree, I see LOTS of horses with inbreeding, maybe you just come across quality stock ;)

@Remrem - I find this the most helpful for people who don't really use outside stock, but for people like me who buy horses here and there for fun, come across a lot of inbred horses, and when I see pedigrees that are completely full with a bunch of different symbols and letters, it can get confusing to try and decode.

@Helix - Bold would be fine too :) I went with the color tabs for realism, but I don't see why bold would be a problem. And like I said above, sometimes there are lots of different symbols and signs in horse's names and horses who have full pedigrees can be hard to read. I'll try and find a few as examples :)