Hello!

I love the addition of the COI feature! However, I noticed the stat appears coloured in pedigrees and on the breeding page, going from green (no inbreeding) through yellow/orange to red (heavy inbreeding).

While this is useful to quickly assess how inbred a horse (or future foal) is, it conveys a judgment via colour code (common perception: green = very good, red = very bad). That part, I'm not sure how to feel about.

When discussions of the COI & possible inbreeding consequences came up, back in the day, it was always emphasised by the team that inbreeding would be treated objectively as a tool that can be used for good or bad. A heavily inbred horse whose ancestors were healthy may still be much better off than a non-inbred horse whose ancestors were riddled with disease. And that's where I don't like the implications of these colours.

This is all the more noticeable because, to my knowledge, the COI is the first stat to be colour coded. GP, conformation, health, etc. are all displayed fully "free of judgement" as simple black-and-white numbers/words, and players are the ones to judge what is good or bad, what to breed for, or where to draw a line. The RealTools extension adds a colour code to the conformation stats but that's a choice by the players, nothing the game dictates.

At the same time, as mentioned earlier, people who want to keep the COI low may benefit from the colour code, and if inbreeding risks get added down the line, the colours could offer a good visual tier system for ease. I also don't know if a similar colour code for other stats (Confo, GP, ...) is planned for the V2 version of the horse profiles. Just right now, the coloured COI really stands out.

I don't really know where to take this suggestion, my first impulse was "Oi, could we just display it as a neutral, plain stat?" but I keep thinking a toggle might be nice? I'm mainly curious what others think about this!