While some users have used the Rainbow Ram (an orange Ram with blue polka dots) to successfully breed offspring that too have dots, as you can see from AL13N's image at the top of this post, the majority of users' attempts are resulting in drab, even white sheep with no color-changing to be found, even if the Ram's pattern is carried down to the Lamb. The most concerning part of this entire issue? There has been very little official acknowledgment from Zynga on the matter, at least on the official FarmVille forums, and what we have seen has been disheartening at best. Lexilicious has posted that "Pattern and color inheritance are not (and have never been 100% guaranteed," and that if we were receiving very high success rates for pattern inheritance before the release of these sheep, then "it was a bug."
While yes, we've been told from the beginning that there has never been a guarantee that your offspring will contain the Ram's pattern or even the Ewe's color, when dozens (perhaps hundreds) of players are reporting that these new sheep do not produce color-changing sheep as believed, or even worse, produce nothing but white sheep, this becomes more than an issue of "random" genetics. What's more - stating that the game's initial high inheritance rate of patterns when breeding is a "bug" is downright shocking. It's almost as if Zynga has purposefully lessened the amount of successful breeding attempts users can complete in order to sell more Ewes and Rams through the store the "old fashioned way" (remember, all of these Rams and Ewes cost Farm Cash, so I suppose that theory holds a lot of merit).
Unless users were active members on the game's official forums, they would have never known an issue with the sheep was present, as there has been no in-game notification to that effect. Now, users have poured 20 Farm Cash here, and 30 Farm Cash there into Ewes and Rams that are supposed to do one thing, but are doing another (or nothing at all). In addition, all formerly illegal sheep are facing the same problems, as flashing Rams and Ewes of any color simply aren't carrying on the trait when bred, no matter how many Love Potions were used in the process.
Will Zynga fix the problem? As of right now, this new bug with white or non-color-changing Sheep hasn't been flagged as a "known issue," so it isn't looking likely. On the other hand, we did see a quick turnaround from Zynga's banning of the illegal sheep-breeding, but with these new sheep being "broken," it really defeats the purpose of their release. Perhaps with enough public outcry from this new problem, we'll see Zynga actually change the coding to where the color-changing is passed on as it was apparently originally intended. In the meantime, users are reporting successfully receiving refunds when contacting Zynga customer service about the issue, so I'd suggest doing the same as well, if you're dissatisfied with your purchase(s).
source:games.com
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Although I haven't had any success resulting in color changers, I have been breeding my color changer star ram(he has a white background that doesn't change and no eye patch) to regular ewes and having success of them coming out the color of the ewe (grape, pink luv ewe) and the ram's star pattern (grape got black stars and pink got outlined also pink stars) coming through the offspring..I did breed the star color changing ram with a ewe that had a different color background but was also a color changing star and got the ewe's background color solid for the offspring.....it's like Zynga programed 2 like "illegal" traits to cancel each other out. and if 2 like items color change they produce white or black....From my few breedings, this is what I've observed .... any other observations that might help out there?
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