Level Changes: Horses can now only get up to 9.99, at this stage they are pretty 'fair' on competition
scoring (excluding horse track racing), and are considered 'trained'. Some horses/trainers acquire these
levels fairly fast: Soon -Example: level 50 may be max and considered 'Grand Prix'. This is a pending idea/future change.
NEAR SOON CHANGE: Second or more accounts made by players - that are not approved
will undergo some adjustments/provisions - no one has abused their extra account(s) yet under the
terms of service agreement but in order to keep this
game going & up (the game dev's food etc..) I will soon have to make rules on this.
Announcements will be made in emails, boards, and
on your home page when new rules are seriously in effect. So please no worries on your second
account until then.
Week of June 23-27, 2003
New event types & training types added and have been worked on, Older events scoring has been
improved.
Trial Events! Yay, can now use trial events to make cash AND see how your horse
does in an event type, as well as recieve expert judge advice. Events: Trial events is
where to find this great new feature
Players can now enter four horses per events, own up to 20, 50 or unlimited depending account
type.
Various fixes & improvements.
June 20, 2003
Lots of new changes! and forgot to list the changes from yesterday.
Tons of fixes to events: See the New Training guide. Posted some major changes on the board.
New event types & polo/team events are posted and in testing, players
are welcome to enter test events and post their own events of these types.
Fixed a bug in which players could enter more than 3 horses: Please read terms of service
regarding exploits/problems thank you.
Various fixes.
June 18, 2003
Lots of new changes! Todays changes: in order
READ: Health problems are no longer so easy to fix!!!! Exhuastion is a health problem
From not watching your horses energy levels. To treat it, and with other injuries:
treat injury in trianing menu, a light workout is OK (halter, dressage..), and then let it
get some rest until the next day. If diet is at 100%, and condition(health!) is atleast 85% then your horse can recover in 2-4 turns.
Some new event types are in effect, new features to creating an event and stuff will be added
READ:
There will be more events added tommorow, more classes and such.
There will be a way to select which breed type can only enter your event (example: show, draft, stock, warmblood, sport etc..)
The club events will be updated last, after the public events are to a good point to avoid me having to duplicate too much of my work.
Modifications in way events are judged may occur.
Certain breed types recieve a benefit in certain event types (examples: stock in most western events, sport in racing, jumping, warmblood in jumping, dressage, show horses in gaited etc...)
I will have information regarding new events once they are all finished. As well as those promised trial events and report cards.
Making an event public is available now: but be warned that specialized horses have advantage.
I will explain more on how each event is judged. For now i would like to say that halter Conformation classes judge on how your horse is to its breed (purify your breed by samebreed X samebreed), showmanship is judged on its training mostly. I know these are broad BUT I have no way to judge the horses owner yet and each event or training type i do I do a lot of work to make them perform and judge right. Thanks.
June 16, 2003
Todays upcoming changes: in order
Added New breeds, all but miniatures should be breedable. Some may take lots of generations and research/
to be first to produce that breed.
Added what will I get section to marketplace as well as some info on breeds.
Changed and Increased Save The Horse Foundation QuickSell Price. Minimum is now $800. They appraise
horses based on breed rarity now too. This can be a huge bonus. Example: Quarterhorses, paints, common horses
that are breed frequently will be purchased at a more standardized price, and horses that their are very few of will
be purchased at a high price. This is not so players will quicksell horses, but to help players get an idea
of market prices and what they could get for the horse.
Also supply/demand should effect this: just see what is in demand by how few there are of
this breed in the market compared to how many have homes.
To do tonight: Save The Horse Foundation management/search, there is a lot of horses in there im even scared to
look lol.
June 12, 2003
changes: in order
Adding new Breeds -Postponned again very sorry! Each breed is carefully developed so it will
perform that like its breed (once the breed has been developed in to a more pure form). Each breed
Takes a LOT of time so they are digitally accurate and have their own unique qualities. I am adding
about 30+ new breeds, quite a few rare ones.
Various fixes & changes.
June 11, 2003
Todays upcoming changes: in order
Adding new Breeds -might take rest of day.
minor Fixes to some way events are scored: mainly dressage. Unique breed factors
will have more effect in events so people are not discouraged for say when their first
generation bred green warmblood is beat by a QH with 4 generations of QH breeding in jumping,
dressage etc.. Also one of the reasons the QHs are excelling in odd events
is because there are SOOO many of them
and they have been being trained & bred more in average.
Various fixes & changes.
June 10, 2003
Todays upcoming changes: in order
New Rules to Events:
1. Individual Players can only enter 3 horses per event
2. Events are full at 30 horses
3. Nefertete Will host a variety of events especially for new players & new horses.
4. Players will be able to execute own club events (later priority)
5. There was a problem with horses with (unknown) parents: these 'generic' horses
had a hidden diet factor of 100: this effected their event performance, and are too powerful- this is fixed.
Also scores (experience) had too much effect in endurance racing, this has been slightly adjusted.
Sorry Falenta- finally got what we MMRPG gamers call 'the nerf bat' :( (but Falenta will still be real tough
- took look at his stats etc.. and diet was normal as other horses- not 100!)
6. Exact Training level now has more of an effect on the horses event performance. this does not
include Speed Race horses - track racers.
Various fixes & changes.
June 9, 2003
Players can now host club-only events (many improvements still to be made on clubs!)
Players can now remove members/duplicate members from clubs
All clubs have been set to horse-only clubs.
Various fixes & changes.