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This would probably cause an insane amount of lag, since it would have to go through the lineage dragon by dragon until it hit the furthest pair of G1s... which could be hundreds or even thousands of dragons.



Cool? Maybe. Practical or useful? Not really.

Honestly, this sounds like it would have very little application. If we're talking about only producing the exact generation of that dragon - other than G1s (which are easily checked) and G2 imperials (which are, again, easily checked), the only generations that users look at are generations usually counted from a non-G1 starter - massive lineage projects, mostly, although I suppose Naomi might count. But without the information of the actual dragons in the lineage, the generation number doesn't really matter - if you can't prove that the dragon(s) you're looking for are in the lineage using that tool, then it would be useless for those projects, too, and logistically, pulling the whole lineage into visible view would be incredibly draining on the servers.

G1 dragons are not marked with any special information - the only thing that marks them as G1 is the parent box reading "None."

I personally can't think of any other applications, so it seems like a lot of work for very little benefit.

i don't... really see the point? sure it's cool, but i don't see myself, personally, getting much use out of it. even if it were to be implemented, the staff already have a lot on their plate and less important features like this would sit on the back burner for a long time - up to years, maybe.

I support this 100%. Why? Because I recently bought a dragon who I intended to mate with another derg, who turned out to be related. Instead of giving up on a dragon I paid 225kt for, I decided to trace the lineage and see how many generations they shared between the related ancestor and lucky for me, it was 4, so all I have to do is breed once with a stud and I'll have a mate for my dragon that is 5 generations apart. I would have LOVED to have a tool that could trace generations so as to help people like me who didn't think to use Assay Bloodline because they thought there was no way the two dragons could be related. Going by each parent and the parents of those parents and so forth for up to 5 generations takes a lot of time and clicks.

We don't like the idea of this because we like that generation barely matters on FR :D On some other pet sites if your pet isn't a gen 1 or 2 it's unwanted and worthless. It's nice that a dragon on FR can be gen 2 or gen 52 and that doesn't matter at all.
Adding a tool just to show you the generation of your dragon adds more importance something that shouldn't matter.

This would get messy quickly. Since dragons can breed with nearly every other dragon (outside of 'close' relatives), and dragons can have literally hundreds of partners, the geneology would be massive. I started a 'family tree' for one of my fodder breeders, and even just going forward, one of their children had like three different partners.

Not to mention, how do you count generation? If one parent is a G1, but the other is a G100, how would it be counted? G2 or G101?

Unfortunately, if you don't use (not talking to the OP) the assay bloodlines tool, then you are really the only one to blame for buying a dragon that is related (I have done that as well, though not to breed. Found two dragons who were pretty when I first started, different breeds, bought at different times, then found out they were sisters) I just don't really see adding a tool that would probably lag the site pretty badly (having to not only trace, but then display the tree) and would be fairly niche in use.

(does the assay bloodlines give the ancestor in common, I have a vague memory of it doing so, but I hardly use it)

@Sopheroo

Thanks, I am never sure, though tend to think it should be the higher lineage. However, I don't really care about lineages :D