Too Confused! About the Special Kitties breeding rules

[Tad Carlucci]

There are only two alleles. For the Clover, they let breeding proceed as normal producing a Dominant hiding Recessive offspring. Then they checked if the offspring was "lucky". If so, they replaced the Recessive with Clover, discarding the original Recessive, and applied the paint-job. Once this is done there are still only two alleles; but the visible phenotype in-world (and on the Pedigree Roster page) is the paint-job, and the visible phenotype on the Pedigree View page (the tree-view) is the original Dominant. But there is no guarantee that the hidden Clover allele is not actually dominant over the Dominant passed from one parent.

This is the exact same pattern used for all Special Collection cats and the Clover is, if you look on the Pedigree View page, also marked as a Special Collection cat. The only difference with the Clover is that you bred it (and so effected the Dominant) instead of purchasing a Starter Special Collection cat (which always has a Genesis eye for its Dominant and, therefor, the Recessive is, by definition of the game design, also recessive).

Note, above, I use capitalization (Dominant and Recessive) to mean an allele which would be dominant or recessive (lower case: the genetic factor) in a normal cat.

An earlier poster seems to claim the Pedigree View page proves Clover is always recessive to the Dominant shown there. If this is the case, the contest of luck used to produce the Clover was not a pure lottery as it should have been. Instead, it is what we'd call a "rigged game" intentionally putting those concentrating on the most recessive eye alleles at a disadvantage. That is, unless Clover is the new True Recessive (which remains unproven). We should start seeing hard data on the true place of Clover in the dominance hierarchy over the next few days.