need some help on how to start a project (already have testing kit)

well, it depends on what you want to achieve with the project

things you'll need at the least:
A plan for the goal
Stable space
Breeding stock
An understanding of how sylesti genetics work

Do you want to do a theme pb project? a stat project? Is the goal 6v? All of those? None of those?
How you go about it will depend on these things

thank you i am trying to to gr nyk if possible

it dosnt realy help us figuring much of what you want to do tho, nyteckries are non-fabled so at least i can tell you that you will have a 3 days roll time for breeding witch will be a bit quicker, especialy at gen 3 and onward. Since you didnt post any image of it, let's start with some questions, it will help figuring out if you are ready to start or what you may nead to get beforehand. ^-^

1. How many traits will be in your project ?

2. Will you use restricted (red) traits ?

3. are the project colors from you or from an already avalable themme ?
3.1 are you familiar with the term themmed ? (probaby yes, but just in case it confuse you)

4. how many stable space do you curently have for this project ?

5. do you have your starting pets / essences ready ?

6. do you plan on doing stat breeding or will it be purely aestetic ?

7. Are you familiar with Punnett Squares ?

im not going to be trying for red traits and im going for 6vis

ok... so a 6 vis nyteckrie with no restricted... it sound preaty simple so far, can you answer to all the questions tho ? i cant realy help you with that many unknown. If you are not sure about somthing, just ask about it. ^-^

project colors from me
yeah

9 open spaces



3.yes



5. yea

6. purely aesthetic

7. i am not familiar with Punnett Squares

ok so, let's take it from the top :

- 9 space is not enough for a project to realy work, in my experience you nead at least 30. Tho, if you are using generated pets, do it while you are saving for a new tab, those are created as adolescents and take a little while to turn adult, this way once the space isue is sorted you will be ready to breed.

- Again, assuming that you are generating, use a 1 male 2 females set up, it will save you some gold while maximising the egg production. You will nead both of the gen1 offspring to be male to continue in the project tho, keep any offsprings with enough traits. While generating, do not give visible traits, it wont matter much on the long run and slow down the start of the project.

- since it's only for the look it will cut both in time and expences since you dont have to wory about philters at all, sure, if you have a pie or two it may be usefull at the end of the project once you get your second 6vis but those arn't necessary.

- An other advice that is worth keeping in mind once you do get a 6vis out of a pair, immediately releass both parents. There is nothing more frustrating then getting two 6vis only to realise they are too closely related to breed.

and finaly punnett squares is a diagram that allow us to predict how genetic will be passed down to offsprings. It's basicly how the breeding system work here on sylestia.

Each gene have two different slots, the visible slot and the carried slot.




A visible trait will alwais pass down to the offspring while a carried trait have 50% chances do to the same. in the case of 2 carried traits being breed togedther, the offspring will get a 25% chances of getting said trait as visible on top of the 50% odds from getting the gene in carrie, the leftover 25% will get nothing.

so in a situation where the pet who's genetic is seen on the picture above get breed with a pet who have this as it's genetic :



Their offspring would most likely have this genetic :

G1: (NM) Shadow Jaguar (100% of the time)
G2: (NN) Nothing
G3: (NF) Red Tailed Cockatoo (100% of the time)
M1: (NN) Nothing
M2: (FF) Tribal Covering (50% of the time, otherwhise carried)
M3: (NN) Nothing

Agreeing with Cian that 9 spaces is... really not enough for pretty much any project, unless it's a very small and easy project that's only going to take like, two generations absolute max.


I will correct what Cian said a little though.
A visible won't always pass onto the offspring; it depends on what the second trait letter in the slot is, and what the other parent has.

Punnett Squares in the most basic form (which is what sylestia uses) are "Parent 1 has these two trait letters, parent two has these two, this is the way trait dominance works between the letters, here's the grid of inheritance. More detail including diagram here.

Sylesti trait dominance is N (nothing) as most dominant, then A>B>C>etc. down the alphabet

A pet will inherit either of the parent's trait letters at a 50/50 ratio, from each parent, and then those letters will be arranged by their respective dominance so that the more recessive is never the visible.

Parent 1 has, say, G1: AC, and Parent 2 has G1: BD, your offspring could have any of the following
AB, AD, BC, CD (in which case, CD has neither of the visible traits of the parents.)

That's 50% chance that A as visible (with 50/50 on which recessive). 25% that B is visible, and 25% that C is visible.

(this has resulted in many confused newbies who bred two untested pets and got an offspring with a vis neither parent had- sometimes they really live up to the saying "recessives are forever" and the trait hadn't been visible in their line for like, 11 generations)

Just going to add onto the excellent information that has already been provided: there is a rather comprehensive guide to project breeding here. Xavion goes over how to breed to 6v using either essence-created starting pets, or pets with more randomly generated traits (tamed, themes, exclusives, etc.). There are also detailed breeding examples. It may take a bit of reading, but it really does cover pretty much everything.