MaLuckyDay wrote:
Hey Paul and eanyone else having a bit of successin SO7
Just a quick question with your breeding techniques.. how many seasons did it take you to start finding full bar stallions and how long into the game were you getting anything over 80% potential.. ive started a game and im 13 seasons in and im yet to find anything decent enough to breed with. anything that i have thought was potential only getting duds not even worth pursuing.
and also does the starting/restart games actually work with finding decent starting horses like s06 did ?
I found a 100% potential horse by re-starting new games but it must have taken me about 100 re-starts. That was about 7 patches ago.
This is the best I have managed so far.
I have probably bred at least 1000 mares like the one above with every gamebred stallion I could and was not able to improve the cruising burst or extra speed so thought I would try re-starts again to look for a good horse. Over 50 re-starts and didn't find that horse to help me and never saw a single horse with decent potential.
Some people might think the next explanation was cheating but it is everyones own choice how they play the game.
If I had to start from scratch again, I would start a new game, use the betting cheat to get £50m. I wouldn't do any breeding, I would just go to every auction and buy every horse and check their bars. It might take 20+ seasons to find that 100% horse but as Paul says, I wouldn't do any serious breeding until I found that good horse to start the breeding.
While I was going to every auction I would look out for some half decent mares about 80-90% and export them to ttf file. Once I found the good stallion, I would also export him to ttf and then start a new game with the horses from the ttf file.
Edit:
In slots 1 and 2 I have played 65 seasons of SO7 getting to know the game and using "normal\standard" breeding methods and since my breeding is aimed at the online league, I have come to the conclusion that the current state of breeding in the game makes breeding almost impossible to anyone except the very dedicated S07 enthusiast. The best horse I had after 65 seasons of normal breeding had 100% potential but only 65% extra speed and 40% cruising burst.
I decided to try a little cheating to improve my breeding.
I had found a horse at auction with 90% extra speed, 45% potential and 20% cruising burst. By cheating it took 19 seasons in slot 3 to maximise the best of what I had from slots 1 and 2 with this new stallion.
By re-starting a jumps game I found a horse with 75% cruising burst, 70% potential and 30% extra speed. Again by cheating in slot 4 I managed to maximise the best of slot 3 with the new stallion to get the type of horse shown above.
That's 100 seasons to get where I am in breeding, 65 normal breeding and 35 by cheating. Cheating seems to be the way forward for me at least.
The last slot was back to breeding normally with gamebred stallions to see if I could improve my horses but no luck. On average, the horses I am breeding in this way are worse than the horses I started the game with.