Annoyances

[Bea Shamrock]

(10-12-2012 06:01 PM)Tad Carlucci Wrote:  On the Pedigree Roster listing and in the Cattery, what you see is the paint-job coat.

On the Pedigree View (tree) page, what you see is the dominant coat.

When working in the Cattery, you're probably most concerned with the genetic information (that is: the dominant coat) and don't really care that the cat happens to have a paint-job which obscures that, under most conditions, when you examine the cat in-world. Similarly, it's probably common to actually be more concerned with the genetic (dominant) coat when sorting or selecting in the Pedigree Roster view. The only work-arounds are to remember to flip into the Pedigree View (tree) page and hand-check each paint-job to see if it has the genetics you're looking for; or to keep careful notes offline.

Yes, the Cattery shows the same "paint-job" information as the Pedigree Roster. But, especially if and when they add sorting and selection capabilities, the information shown is almost certainly NOT the information the users are most often concerned with.

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The issue with which offspring are reachable from parent is easily solved, conceptually, and should be fairly easy to fix in SQL. First off, recognize that all cats always show their parents (if any) and grand-parents (also, if any). The issue arises when YOU (one Avatar) did not breed the offspring from the parents, but now own both a parent and it's offspring. In this case, as always, from the offspring, you can see it's parents. But, since you did not breed the offspring from the parent (someone else, perhaps your ALT, did), you cannot see the offspring from the parent's Pedigree View (tree) page. If, however, you DID breed the offspring from the parent, you CAN see it. This is a one-sided restriction and has nothing whatsoever to do with any complaints about privacy. And it's simple to fix. Rather than saying "If you bred the offspring from this cat you can see it listed below the parents" simply add "or if you own the offspring at this time." This does not change any information exposed by the system. It simply makes the already-presented information work both ways .. if you can see the parent from this offspring, and you now own the parent as well, you can also see the offspring from the parent.

I too would like to see the costume kitty's genetic characteristics on the Cattery and Pedigree Roster -I remembered there was something about that but not having any kitties like that in the cattery right now, I couldn't remember what it was.

About the parent-OS issue: I haven't tried getting back one of my kitties from my alt and trying to see their OS; but I have bought parents and their live and boxed OS and all 3 (2 live, 1 boxed) of the OS I didn't breed but now own appear below each parent on the pedigree tree along with the OS I've bred myself. (I hope the way I'm writing it is making some sense -it's really late for me tonight)