Bloodlines

There are various factors to take account while breeding and understanding them makes the difference between good and great strategy.

FAMILY TREE

In Meta Hound we wanted to avoid monotonous breeding systems in order to add variety and naturalness to the game. To this end, we embraced Mendel’s Genetics Theory while breeding. This means; when a player breeds their hounds, hounds pedigree chart plays a significant roll in the outcome.

HOUND GENETICS

Baby hounds from the same bloodline(pure) will have the same bloodline as their parents. For example, when a pure male Whippet and a pure female Whippet breeds, the offspring will be 100% pure Whippet.

However, when breeding between different bloodlines hound’s pedigree chart plays a part in the out come. Hound’s genes become more recessive as their rarity level increases. This means Hounds carry recessive (rare) genes in their bloodline creating a chance to breed higher rarity hounds in the future generations. Lets go through some examples to understand cross bloodline breeding

Note that Bran>Phara>Whippet>Galgo in terms of dominance.

Case 1: If a player breeds a pure Phara (PP) with a pure Whippet, s/he will get Phara with recessive Whippet gene giving it a chance to breed higher rarity hounds in the future generations as you can see from the table below.

Case 2: If a player breeds two Phara with recessive Whippet gene; there is 25% chance to breed pure Whippet(ww), 50% chance to breed Phara with recessive Whippet gene(Pw) and 25% chance to breed pure Phara(PP).

Case 3: If a player breed a Phara with recessive Whippet gene (Pw) with pure Galgo (gg), there is 50% chance to breed Phara with recessive Galgo gene (Pg) and 50% chance to breed Whippet with recessive Galgo gene (Wg). You can see Galgo genes carry on recessively since Galgo is the least dominant gene.

Case 4: If a player breed a Phara with recessive Whippet gene (Pw) with pure Bran (BB), there is 50% chance to breed Bran with recessive Phara gene (Bp) and 50% chance to breed Bran with recessive Whippet gene (Bw). Since the most dominant gene is Bran, Phara and Whippet genes carry on recessively.