I was indeed heartened and delighted by those two examples - somewhat ironically because imo Mosaic/Breakup are the absolute ugliest Gaoler genes in existence, but I was so happy to see them get ported over because it meant that the Official Policy wasn't "nope, proprietary genes are a super-special thing just for ancients and no modern dragon will ever get to use them ever". But when we're getting at least one ancient breed every year with at least three prim/sec pairs and a variable quantity of portable pattern-type terts (excluding linebreaking terts designed just for that ancient, which it makes sense to keep as proprietary), and only the three examples you mention in the past four years of any ancient gene becoming a full-blown modern gene, it's hard to be optimistic about a particular one.
(I'd personally prefer it if ancients only ever got parallel genes (+ special case linebreaking terts), to keep cool gene ideas from being 'wasted' on them, but I know that's a bit of a selfish preference.)
Re: New Ancients
I was indeed heartened and delighted by those two examples - somewhat ironically because imo Mosaic/Breakup are the absolute ugliest Gaoler genes in existence, but I was so happy to see them get ported over because it meant that the Official Policy wasn't "nope, proprietary genes are a super-special thing just for ancients and no modern dragon will ever get to use them ever". But when we're getting at least one ancient breed every year with at least three prim/sec pairs and a variable quantity of portable pattern-type terts (excluding linebreaking terts designed just for that ancient, which it makes sense to keep as proprietary), and only the three examples you mention in the past four years of any ancient gene becoming a full-blown modern gene, it's hard to be optimistic about a particular one.
(I'd personally prefer it if ancients only ever got parallel genes (+ special case linebreaking terts), to keep cool gene ideas from being 'wasted' on them, but I know that's a bit of a selfish preference.)