My stallions
Your stallions, with for each the quota of matings he has at his disposal and what he currently has for sale. The screen serves two purposes: breeding your own mares, and selling mating rights to other players.
The Breed link at the end of the line chooses the mare to cover — see My mares for the detail of the operation and its possible refusals.
The quota: two worlds, two professions
It is the most important difference in the whole breeder's profession, and it cannot be guessed.
On Almina and Bezir, a stallion earns one quota point a day, from his 57th day of life, and until his retirement. The counter rises by itself: all it takes is waiting. An old stallion who has served little therefore has an enormous reserve, and his racing career changes nothing about it.
On Chorus, nothing is free. A stallion receives 10 points at birth, but cannot make use of them before he is 3 years old. After that, he earns points only by running — in every race except the free ones — according to his finishing place and the number of entrants:
| Entrants | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th and over |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 4 to 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 7 to 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 to 20 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
Every participant earns at least one point, even finishing last. That is intended: running always brings in something, and it is a reason to enter a stallion even when he has no chance. A place of honour does not make a champion, but it does make quota.
And large fields pay more to those who impose themselves in them: a win in a field of fifteen is worth three times a win in a field of two.
The consequence is a different profession according to the world. On Chorus, a stallion has to run to be worth anything as a sire: a champion withdrawn from the track at 3 will never have any quota, whatever his genetics. On Almina and Bezir, he only has to grow old, and the value of a stallion therefore hangs on nothing but what he passes on.
When a stallion can no longer sell anything
- if he is retired: the accumulated quota is of no further use, think of it before letting a good stallion reach the end;
- if he has been neutered: a gelding is no longer a stallion, and the operation is final;
- if he is himself for sale: withdraw the horse's sale first. A stallion for sale can no more breed your mares.
Selling mating rights
The four columns of the list read as follows: Saleable gives the available quota, then Fixed price, Reserved and Auction give the quantity currently for sale in each mode. Each one is a link opening the corresponding sale window.
A listing is made up of a quantity, a mode, a duration and a price for one.
- Fixed price: the first to pay carries off the right.
- Reserved: you designate the player by their nickname, and they alone can buy.
- Auction: you set a minimum price for one and the market decides.
A sale in progress can only be half modified: the price remains changeable, but the quantity and the mode are frozen. To change them, the sale has to be deleted and another created. Worth thinking about before validating.
On the buyer's side, a bought right is not eternal: they have 90 days to use it, after which it disappears.
Mind the sense of that delay: it is a limit for making use of the right, not for the birth. Nothing stops it being employed straight away on a one-year-old mare — the foal is then created immediately, with a date of birth calculated for the moment when its mother will be of age. The buyer therefore never has to wait for their mare to grow up before consuming their right. See Matings available.
Sell or keep?
The question arises above all on Chorus, where quota is scarce. Each point sold is a foal you will not have born at home — and a good stallion who runs regularly ends up bringing in more in rights than in produce, since you take the money without waiting four years.
On Almina and Bezir, the question hardly arises: quota is abundant, and selling it deprives you of nothing. What sells there is the reputation as a sire — and that is built by keeping track of what your stallions give. See breeding.
Reading the list
Each stallion shows his genetics and his birth genetics, the one that counts for judging a sire. The breeder's notepad is displayed: that is where one notes what a stallion has given, mare by mare. Your breeder's folders serve as a filter, with the name, the speciality, the age and all the genetics.