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I can't help you with the ExP vs regular lines question, as I haven't yet decided what I'm going to do about that yet.

If you are able to pasture breed everything with the full bonus, I think your goals through gen 5 are fully doable.

I seem to remember I followed your general goals here. I think I was planning to increase to a 0.5 PT increase as I could reach it with each generation, but had also planned to initially require only a 0.4 PT increase after 11.0. Once you're up at gen 4 and 5 you will really start to see where your mares are weak. Tweaking your stallion quality at gen 3 (I had a ridiculous problem getting a good increase in quality there) seemed to totally open the floodgates for me and suddenly I was breeding really really high quality gen 4 colts. I assume my fillies were equally high quality, but that was before mare Papering at birth. I was struggling to get Gold gen 5s though and think I needed another couple seasons to get those high quality gen 4 mares into the herd.

I think unless you have lines (not the rare individual, but entire lines) that are 100% regular quality or 100% boosted, by gen 5 and up you could definitely expect everyone to meet the same standard. Gen 4 may still be a bit early--you will definitely have the potential to get Stars and Golds from minimally boosted lines (just one boosted ancestor at the foundation generation) but I'm not hearing about Stars or Golds from 100% regular create lines at that generation.