Pattern Info... just read the post please

So when you go to your division, but don't click on any horses, it lists all their names, genders, breeds, base colors, if they're cared for or not, ect. But it doesn't list their patterns. This is really annoying, because sometimes I go to the RC to try and find a pretty horse, but I have to click them all to see if they have a pattern or not.
What I want is for it to say their pattern(s).

EDIT, PLEASE READ: now that the division overview font has been slightly altered, I think this would fit better now, because the names are on a different line and don;t take up space. What are your thoughts now? Have they changed?

Last edited on 2017-02-03 at 13:38:51 by Raptorfang Ω

Thing is if you add patterns to the description you're going to end up with a lot of horses exceeding the one line for the description and making the spaces larger, which is often unsightly. There's a lot of information on one line already, adding markings would be unnecessary imo.

It's a little bit more work, but I go to the horse search and click the 'show only rescue horses' and 'show locked horses' buttons, then search horses by genetic information. That tells me if any of my desired horses are in the rc. I also do this when looking for horses on sale, because not everyone renames their horse to show it has a rare pattern, though it is something I would suggest doing if you are going to sell a patterned horse.

I agree with Maple. Trying to fit that much text on one line is going to make it hard to read for the people who look at EV on their phones. You can just use the horse search like Crimson said. The genetics guide makes it easier to know what to search for.

I would find it useful if the pattern was listed as well as the colour. Perhaps the really long complex ones could be abreviated to something like Pinto, Pintoloosa, Skewbald or Piebald.

Last edited on 2016-09-30 at 10:35:26 by UlyssesBlue (spare)

A work-around would be adding an abbreviation to your horse's name. For instance, I have patterns in parentheses, so it looks like: Horse's Name (TT) or Horse's Name (Rn+).

Ducky:
I know what my horses look like, so that wouldn't be useless to me. Plus, some of their names are really long, and it's hard enough fitting in the other abbreviations I use :P

Last edited on 2017-02-03 at 13:34:56 by Raptorfang Ω

Instead of putting the horse's color on there for the name, why not put the genotype. If the horse's genotype has been paid for why not put that up there instead of the color name. It would make it a little more of a point for people to learn the genetics they were looking for. I like that idea :D

I would prefer that conformation be added to their description; I think that the horse search function is enough for those RC searches.

I do the " Prefix: Horse Name (PATTERN genetics)"
If the name is too long, I change the name. If there's only one pattern on the horse (Roan for example) and i can only fit two more characters in the name, ill just do a het form (Rn) or make it homo (RN) instead of doing Rn+ or RnRn. If it's Roan Sabino, and can only take two more, I'll do RS.

I'm doing it with my entire herd, all 331+ horses :D Slowly but getting there.

It seems redundant, but this way, if i want to breed two patterns together, i can.

Not sure about anyone else but my horses already exceed the one line, and its not unsightly (I think its the hearts that have pushed it over, for the record).

I agree - the horses should have their patterns in their colour.

A pattern is part of a horses colour, you don't look at a Red Roan and say 'Here is my chestnut' and likewise when you see a bay with a white rump and coloured spots, its not a bay, its a Bay Blanket.

THIS HAS SINCE BEEN EDITED BECAUSE OF THE NEW UPDATE.

i am still going to not support.

Yes, the changes may make it easier for certain patterns.

but take my two appaloosas...

they'd need to have all their patterns included, and they're not just one or two....
so instead of the simple :
1 year old Flaxen Ivory Gold Champagne Dun Appaloosa Stallion
1 year old Silver Sable Cream Champagne Dun Appaloosa Mare

it'd be :
1 year old Tovero, Rabicano, Roan, Few Spot Silver Sable Cream Champagne Dun Appaloosa Mare
1 year old Frame Splash Sabino, Rabicano, Roan, Few Spot Flaxen Ivory Gold Champagne Dun Appaloosa Stallion

and if i can successfully breed one that has ALL those rolled up into one, eventually, down the road, it'd be even longer. It still poses an issue for space.

I would really like this. IMO, it would work well if the patterns were abbreviated. For instance, if I saw "Ov,". I would think "Overo.". If I saw "Rn," I would think "Roan," and so forth.

I'm split down the middle on this, because it would potentially be nice to have so you could make breeding pair decisions from looking at the division, but even with the edit there's still the possibility that it would force another line, which I don't like the idea of (the names got moved to their own lines to stop that from happening in the first place). I used to keep all my markings in the name of the horse until I switched it up to confo until the possibility that it's added to the division page.

I'm going to lean towards not supporting, because if you're looking for certain patterns on rescue center horses (or any rescue center horses imo) it's easiest to use the horse search option and look up those patterns and finding the patterns you prefer that way, rather than allowing the possibility of the horse descriptions getting too long again.