COI

[Caten]

Can someone tell me how the COI affects the horses?

[Nazarach]

Can someone tell me how the COI affects the horses?

It doesn't for now. You could say it has its advantages as a high coi means the genepool is very stable/ differs less than on horses with lower coi. Many breeders that breed for a certain type of conformation and/or color (like appaloosa, extended white blanketts or anything comparable) tend to have a rather high coi in their lines because it limits the genes to a restricted range. getting new horses with a low coi in can disrupt this pool and lead to different outlooks and/or genes.
There is talk about high Coi leading to illnesses though (like inbreeding in reality often does)in future updates, so it's up to you how you want to handle it; breeding for really low coi - which is a lot of work; breeding for high coi as it suits your purposes and often archieves goals much faster - or trying to limit it to a certain range...

does this help or are there things still not making much sense to you?

[Caten]

Can someone tell me how the COI affects the horses?

It doesn't for now. You could say it has its advantages as a high coi means the genepool is very stable/ differs less than on horses with lower coi. Many breeders that breed for a certain type of conformation and/or color (like appaloosa, extended white blanketts or anything comparable) tend to have a rather high coi in their lines because it limits the genes to a restricted range. getting new horses with a low coi in can disrupt this pool and lead to different outlooks and/or genes.
There is talk about high Coi leading to illnesses though (like inbreeding in reality often does)in future updates, so it's up to you how you want to handle it; breeding for really low coi - which is a lot of work; breeding for high coi as it suits your purposes and often archieves goals much faster - or trying to limit it to a certain range...

does this help or are there things still not making much sense to you?

Yes! thanks for the help!