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Okay, this is... Actually getting to be a hassle for the COLORISTS, from the looks of it... gonk

The forms for breedings are actually very large and time-consuming to put together... To fill in. And this becomes a problem, because literally every colorist has a different form set-up, so people keep having to move things around, fill things in differently, take things out for this form or that form... I think it's gotten time for a universal and uniform breeding form for Soquili. No more changing the forms to suit, because that's only causing headaches by now - If a colorist doesn't do something, like they're not doing RP couples or Low Luck(As an example) or something, just have people put "N/A" for that part of the form. Heart's note in her breeding thread seems to highlight why this is becoming a problem sad People are using old forms, and... Why is this something that's gotta be a problem? sad It might make things less of a pain for the colorists, too, because they don't have to spend quite so much time checking that forms are the CORRECT form because it'd all be just ONE form across the board.

I think a uniform breeding form would be lovely for colorists and owners. I agree with Kamiki about the headers as well. As a personal suggestion, I always think its a great idea when colorists use the in the form for easy copy/pasting as it seems like it would be much easier to put together the lists, perhaps that could be part of a universal form for convenience's sake?

I totally agree! I always have to double-check to make sure I've included all the info and even then I feel like I've forgotten some little detail. D8

I actually don't think breeding forms take too long to fill in (barely 5 minutes actually - and like Tefla said 5-10 minutes isn't too long anyway). I personally keep a filled-in breeding form for each couple in my teepee and then just copy and paste all the relevant info into the new form.

It's really only a hassle to the colorists when people entering don't read and fill in the forms correctly... so I'm not opposed to it, but I don't really see a need for it unless the colorists themselves want it.

I keep thinking about this myself and going through all the stuff on the forms that isn't part of a special event breeding (Mind's backstory/plot extra stuff, edits for Easter/Halloween/etc)

Entry Line: Both parents, both owners (Makes for a quick copy/paste for colorists)
Parent/Owner 1
Parent/Owner 2
Low Luck
Lifemate
RP
Unedited Y/N
Co-owner
Teepee
Throwbacks Y/N
Throwback Link
Breeding Agreement

I think that is literally all we need, right? Only tack on special things for certain breeding events and the like. With a standard form then owners can keep a copy of the code in notepad or their teepee and can easily copy/paste + whatever special header the colorist wants and you're set to go in less than 2 minutes or so. No having to worry about adding or removing areas for whatever reason or having to move them around to be in some special order.

This c: *as I post this from a boat going deep sea fishing lol*

Hey guys -- could you point out what was so non-universal about her form? It seems to be the same one that DD and I use from what I can tell, and the only difference is the headers... Which are to help her tell what list your in and we all use them and we cant just have a universal header because it sort of defeats the purpose of the header, which is to make our lives easier and thus less likely to burn ourselves out/hate doing things other then "All one type so we don't have to make multiple lists"

MOST of the time the other stuff is either optional or so you can post multiple ponies into a form.

So am I missing something major? Since from what I can tell from her comment she's talking about people not using Headers or that "Parent (owner) x Parent (owner)" code that most of us have used since Sabin started doing it a couple years ago.