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kkeappy wrote:

What is the rule modification here?


No modification - just clarification.

For example - using the ALL rules section of the Black Pearl

Current Rules

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The drawing must not be of poor quality
The illustration mustn't be blurry or pixelated.
The drawing must not be in 3D
The illustration must be in the requested format
The illustration mustn't be brutally cropped on the borders of the frame
The outline of the drawing must be sufficiently neat
The drawing must not be too small
Horses must be sent on a transparent background
There mustn't be content issues with the drawing
The drawing must not be offensive for young players.
The illustration may not contain people
The drawing must feature a horse for the Golden Apple or a landscape for Helios' Ray
Do not sign your illustration
The drawing must not give rise to copyright issues
No photos allowed (even if they are edited)
The drawing must not be fan art (fan art is a creation that takes inspiration from a movie, cartoon or manga representing or referring to a character created by another person)
You cannot use a model without authorization from its creator
You may not recreate already existing illustrations or illustrations created by other players
You may not recreate illustrations from the game


Clarified Rules
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The drawing must not be of poor quality
mustn't be blurry or pixelated
mustn't be 3D
must comply with the format of the template
There mustn't be content issues with the drawing
mustn't include content that could be unsuitable for young players
must not include people
mustn't have a signature
The artwork should have no copyright issues:
Creations based on a photograph or which are a photograph are not allowed
The drawing must not be fan art (fan art is a creation that takes inspiration from a movie, cartoon or manga representing or referring to a character created by another person)
You cannot use a line drawing without the consent of its creator
You may not recreate already existing illustrations or illustrations created by other players
You may not recreate illustrations from the game


IF you compare the two side by side - the Clarified rules are a bit simpler and have removed one or two requirements.
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TheArbiter wrote:

Shorah Nagi:
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In your objectives post pinata 6 is still listed as having 75 clicks. When I checked this against Craxors findings pinata 6 needed 100 clicks. I don't know which one is right but it does seem strange that pinata 5 and 6 both need 75 pinatas


Yeah, I made a typo (after I typed up a few of them - I copy/pasted one to use as a template for the rest...guess I forgot to change that one piece of information)

Anyhow - I've gone back and editied my main post and will confirm that;

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Pinata 6 is 100 points and not 75 as I originally posted here (and in the other post that contains the objectives)
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Starry-Eyed wrote:

Shorah, did International PreProd start? I didn't see the banner yet, and I hope I haven't missed it...


Not quite yet - but soon (though it happens rarely, sometimes the Mod Team gets new Mod Tools that we need to test out just as much as players need to test new site features. I was just kind enough to throw a few confirmations and sneak peeks for the upcoming session default smiley ;))
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By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 03:51:18
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So I tried making a new account on the British server and I guess it was a new tutorial-had Ouranos and Gaia as the starter horses and it had the girl as the tutorial guide instead of Ow. However, it got super glitchy. Like when it came to the "open your mail" part I opened my mail but it just got stuck and kept telling me again and again. I deleted the account because it was so annoying but I was just wondering is this a common problem?
Sorry about my earlier spoiler failure. I was sure I added them on both but I guess I just totally spaced out. My apologies to everyone.
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Retired breeder wrote:

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So I tried making a new account on the British server and I guess it was a new tutorial-had Ouranos and Gaia as the starter horses and it had the girl as the tutorial guide instead of Ow. However, it got super glitchy. Like when it came to the "open your mail" part I opened my mail but it just got stuck and kept telling me again and again. I deleted the account because it was so annoying but I was just wondering is this a common problem?


You have to read the mail and it will send you to the next part of the tutorial
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Osiris in the sales was quite a nice surprise.
Is it definite that they go to the reserved sales at some stage after they've been in a promo and then in a luck item?
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By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 11:07:54
Does anyone know will be a vintage apple in the next promo?)
Aerondight wrote:

Osiris in the sales was quite a nice surprise.
Is it definite that they go to the reserved sales at some stage after they've been in a promo and then in a luck item?


Yup. Though the Sales can come before the luck item, and they usually go through Sales only once or twice. Usually once.

Retired breeder wrote:

Does anyone know will be a vintage apple in the next promo?)


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Yes, you win it by breaking open the community pinata.
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By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 11:21:29
starry97, thank you))
TheArbiter wrote:

Sorry about my earlier spoiler failure. I was sure I added them on both but I guess I just totally spaced out. My apologies to everyone.


It happens from time to time (I went back and edited the first one you posted, as it had a question in it).

Aerondight wrote:

Osiris in the sales was quite a nice surprise.


Indeed - though now I have a difficult choice to make. I used a lot of passes on the Cards (could have used less, but I screwed up at one point) and just spent 15 passes to renew my Pegasus Account.

Do I purchase Osiris with my remaining passes, and risk being unable to complete one of the upcoming promos? Or take the gamble that he'll be available again later (as this is the second time he's popped up in the Reserved Sales) and let him go...
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ShorahNagi wrote:

Do I purchase Osiris with my remaining passes, and risk being unable to complete one of the upcoming promos?


I'm having the same dilemma. Osiris is one of my favourite Egyptian divines and I'd imagine that it would be a bit risky to let him go. I have no intention of completing the collection to get Ra but I managed to get Anubis and I'd really like this guy too, I know I'd regret it if I let him go by..
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If anyone is having problems deciding based on Osiris perk I have had mine since he came out. On average I get a diamond from him about once a week ( much like a rainbow). He can also be skilled up ( so he could eventually be a high skilled divine), something I demand now that we are top heavy on low skilled divines.

My Osiris is currently at 4296 skills.
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By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 15:49:56
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Can anyone explain to me why the fertility wand is the most popular item being purchased on the Black Market right now? Am I missing something?
Retired breeder wrote:

Can anyone explain to me why the fertility wand is the most popular item being purchased on the Black Market right now? Am I missing something?


Lots of people just happen to be purchasing it? I don't think that's something that can really be explained. It just happens to be popular now.
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I must say one thing...that "stay logged in feature" will be PERFECT for Piniata promo.

Leave the comp on and the tab with howrse open... all clicks every x hour you cannot use directly will just...save up... for you to use when you wake up >default smiley :)



Shishi no Seirei
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In preprod, the pinatas are very glitchy. Taking away my blows but not giving me points on the pinatas. I've competed an objective for pinata 9 but it won't let me confirm it. I really dislike the pinatas, but I'm happy that we get a vintage apple this time around!!!
Also, what happened to showing us a whole list of the available gifts? Instead, we have to click through each pinata to see them. It's very frustrating and then we have to click our way all the way back to the one we were on.
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Shishi no Seirei wrote:

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I must say one thing...that "stay logged in feature" will be PERFECT for Piniata promo.

Leave the comp on and the tab with howrse open... all clicks every x hour you cannot use directly will just...save up... for you to use when you wake up >default smiley :)

eh...I don't think it will work like that
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I'm sure Howrse has made some sort of limit to how that feature works, as some things about it would just seem like cheating to me(i.e. staying logged in so on days you can't log in you still get your log in dice rolls or whatever. I haven't tested that particular thing, so I don't know if it works or not?)

But for the pinatas the clicks don't save up anyway. If you miss using the clicks during that hour, they disappear. They don't save up, at least not that I've ever been aware of. There is adelay which is how I usually use them. I won't use my clicks until right before the next clicks are available so I'm actually not logging in as much. Unless I misunderstood what you meantdefault smiley (lol)
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bibbs,:

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They dissapear? Interesting...default smiley (8)
I guess it would be a good thing to test out on preprod. will leave the game ona nd see what happens default smiley (y).
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Shishi no Seirei wrote:

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They dissapear? Interesting...default smiley (8)
I guess it would be a good thing to test out on preprod. will leave the game ona nd see what happens default smiley (y).

Yep, pretty sure
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grant it, in past pinata promos, when I've been on I've gotten most of my clicks so never quite noticed. Though back when I had dial-up there was a few times I was logged in, but my clicks weren't registering because of my slow internet so I just gave up. I don't think I still had those clicks when I got back on later. But it would be interesting for someone to test that!
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By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 18:35:03
Cool, I was invited to prepod by PM this time! ...twice! default smiley xd
By Retired breeder, 6th May 2016 18:51:56
Wow...

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I was on prepod, and they have a time limited Fertility Wand as one of the prizes... O.O That isn't even some gigantic prize. Not very happy; I exchange my Fertility Wands for Helios' Rays, and this will prevent that. -.-
Not that I couldn't use the Fertility Wand, as I suppose I could, but I'd rather two or three Helios' Rays versus two baby horses.
I'm not really liking the prize spread for the P__ Promo.

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Barring the divines, you only really get 4 BMIs of worth, and they're in the later Pinatas.


I'm going to put all of the prizes under the spoiler. I know Shorah put them in her post, but I thought it would be nice to have them separate in case someone just wanted to know what they are.

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Pinata 1: 3x Aging Point and a Pandora's Box

Pinata 2: 10% Energy for horses and a 3*** Classical Bridle

Pinata 3: A Whip and a 3*** Classical Saddle

Pinata 4: 10x Mash and a Water of Youth

Pinata 5: 50x Apple and a Philotes' Stroke

Pinata 6: A 1* Classical Bridle and a Helios' Ray

Pinata 7: 100x Wood, 100x Sand, and 100x Metal

Pinata 8: 10x Aging Points, an Artemis' Arrow, and a Fertility Wand (90 day limit on Wand)

Pinata 9: 20x Leather, a Water Trough, and an Apollo's Lyre

Pinata 10: A set of Violet 2** Tack. (Polo Wraps, Ear Bonnet, and Western Saddle Cloth)

Pinata 11: 300x Fodder, 1x Horseshoe Studs, and a Medusa's Blood

Pinata 12: 4,000e, 500 points in the overall ranking, and a Zeus' Lightning Bolt

Pinata 13: 20x Carrot, a Shower, and a Poseidon's Pack

Pinata 14: 250x 2*** Fertilizer, a Piece of Cloud, and an Achilles' Heel

Pinata 15: 10x Aging Points, a Tractor, and a Horn of Plenty (90 day limit on HOP)

Pinata 16: 100x Droppings, a Hypnos' Blanket, and a Harmony Pack (90 day limit on pack)

Pinata 17: 300x Flax Seeds, 50,000e, and a Hermes' Winged Staff (90 day limit on HWS)

Pinata 18: 20x Mash, 1,000 points in overall ranking, and a Nyx Pack (90 day limit on pack)

Pinata 19: Dark Gemini

Pinata 20: Light Gemini


And my thoughts on the particular prizes, both why disappointing and why something might be a little bit improved.

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This is operating on worth of items versus number of pinata they're in. (Because logically the farther in you get the better prizes you receive.)

- How and why is 3*** tack worth less than 1* tack?

- 10x Mash, 50x Apple, 20x Leather, 20x Carrot, 20x Mash, and 4,000e are worthless to me, even more so because of the absolutely minuscule amounts they're offered in. Really? 20 Mashes for reaching Pinata 18? Thanks, Howrse.

- 300x Droppings. Again, pointless. However, it has its own separate point because we literally get droppings for free. There is no reason why it should be offered as a prize.

- Resource amounts are slightly improved, but I'm still eh about it being there.

- General ranking points are also useless. Most of the players going all the way on this promo will be higher up in the rankings. 1,500 points won't really make a difference to their position, so it's a bit of a waste.

So yeah. Really the only things of worth are the HOP, the Harmony Pack, the Winged Staff, and the Nyx Pack. The other BMIs are fairly common/inexpensive to get. I'm well aware that I don't *have* to participate, but I shouldn't be getting 15 passes worth of items (I'm counting HWS as 6 passes because you can get a 6 pass item for it) for the 30 or so that I'm spending to finish. The Divines aren't really worth much either in this case unless you're a Gemini (which still isn't much of a deal, wow ONE 5th element a year) and Wands are quite common as well.

Those are just my thoughts on it, though. Yeah free stuff is better than nothing no matter what it is, but a) 'prizes' should be things worth more than a couple hundred equus' worth of stuff from the store and b) the cost of promos in general versus the gain back from them is definitely skewing, and not in a good direction.
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starry97

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To be fair, the pinata promo is not that pass heavy as promos go. You can finish up to pinata 16 eithout any passes at all essentially giving you a Harmony Pack. Past that you can normally use HOPs for extra points which you can get from stroking Xanthos.

I'm personally happy for a free Harmony pack and if I have enough HOPs saved up from stroking xanthos every day I'll be able to get even more for free. And all the tack and such I'm happy to take, I never seem to have enough of it anyways. If the prizes were better than they are howrse probably could't afford to make things like the pinatas as easy to complete.
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Starry-Eyed wrote:

And my thoughts on the particular prizes, both why disappointing and why something might be a little bit improved.

I kind of wonder if the prizes are slightly *thinks of polite word* not good because you can
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open HOPs for points to complete the promo? Perhaps Howrse assumes that the stuff you get in HOPs add to the prize pile? Which doesn't hold for me as the items found in HOPs now are typically terrible. I don't find BM items in them like I used, which is why I usually save them for promos like these where you find promo items in.

Now, if the odds of finding BM items(at least 1 pass ones, not meager ones like Croesus Fortunes) in HOPs were bumped up like they used to be, then I wouldn't mind the prizes for this promo being not so great
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