I don't know. I'd say that it played a major role in what your tama turns into in the previous tamas, but now life points have taken their place. Maybe they do affect it, even if only a little bit, afterall, why would v4 have the disclipine option if it did nothing? But I was wondering the same thing about connecting tamas, and whether the amount of friends you have affects what you get. On my v1, I took perfect care of my tama, it had all of the training bars, I only fed it snacks when its happy hearts were empty and it wouldnt play a game, but yet it still turned into a maskitchi. The only answer I can think of to it is that I only connected it with one tama three times. So what do you think?