I've always played the game 'as is' in as much as I breed horses, race them, retire them to breeding barn, breed from them and wait for them to get too old or to die. And then they are gone forever. I've done it this way because I usually play very long saves spanning many decades.
I want to try something different though for a couple of reasons. One is to avoid the devastation I always feel when I lose a long term save due to corrupted save file etc and the other is that I want to really try to get more indepth with selective breeding.
So, I need a wee bit of advice on the most efficient way to have my chosen breeding horses available across multiple saves. Eventually I want to end up with the choice between hundreds of breeding options spanning different timescales and different saves rather than the 80 or so I usually have in my breeding barn on a long term individual save.
Can someone please give me a step by step guide to achieving this as I'm getting myself in a muddle thinking about how to do it. I seem to remember it was mentioned previously that you can get to last day of season and save game, retire a horse to game pool, start the new season but then quit without saving so that the horse is both still in the game and in the game pool? If so, I guess that's step one?
How would I then go about having that game pool horse available to me multiple times? This part confused me as every time I transfer a horse in and out of the game pool it will age a year I think which isn't ideal bearing in mind horses eventually start producing weaker offspring as they reach a certain age.
Hope this makes sense and someone can guide me in the right direction
