The next phase

The next step will be implemented at the beginning of February.


Production Cycle

Thanks to the location of your Equestrian Center and your boarders, you can collect a brand new type of resource: wood for the forest, iron for the mountains, sand for the beach.
There are two types of resources:
Resources associated with the location of your Equestrian Center: acquired via missions done by your boarders or purchased from the store.
Resources available for all Equestrian Centers: agricultural products (fodder, straw, flax, etc.) and livestock products (leather).
By combining different resources, you can make most of the products and facilities in your Equestrian Center
At the store, the price of products that you make depends on supply and demand.
You can change the location of your equestrian center for 30 days after the next update, to test the various possibilities.

Workshops

Workshops allow you to make:
Buildings: boxes, greenhouses, new workshops
Box (shower, trough) and meadow (trough, tractor) improvements
Products (equipment, mash, fertilizer)
Depending on their size, they allow you to make more or less of your chosen product.
The number of workshops that you can simultaneously have producing goods depends on the prestige of your Equestrian Center.
Production time depends on the product that you are making.

Raising Cows

You can dedicate the use of some of your fields to raise cattle
Cows allows you to get leather
You can have 6 fields simultaneously growing crops and/or containing cows.

Buildings in your Equestrian Center

A new improvement is available for boxes: the drinking trough. It allows your boarders to obtain 4 times more energy and morale via the “drinking” action. This improvement does not count toward prestige.
The tractor replaces the scarecrow.
The trough is an improvement for fields with cattle: it allows you to obtain 30% more leather.
When a building is used too much, it is disabled until it is repaired with resources.
You can have several greenhouses. They are available in three different sizes and wear out as they are used.

Horse's Page

Lessons carried out by horses have been renamed Missions.
There are two types of missions:
Lessons, which bring in money to the Equestrian Center manager
Gathering missions, which bring in resources to the Equestrian Center
This action always brings in money for the horse owner and skills for the horse.
The “Put in the meadow” and “Put in the box” actions have been deleted. Adjustments have been made to counteract the loss of energy/morale.

The Magic Ride

Rides are based on where the Equestrian Center is located.

Existing trot, gallop and cross-country rides are replaced with new types of rides:

• forest rides
• mountain rides

Beach rides appear on the right of these two new types of rides rather than below them. When riding on the beach, you can now decide which skill you want to increase and decrease.
However if you don’t make any specific selection, the default setting will add to the highest skill by removing from the lowest.

Skills

Forest rides add skill points to:

• speed
• gallop
• trot
Mountain rides add skill points to:

• stamina
• dressage
• jumping


Energy used

Long and short rides no longer exist. Both types of rides (forest and mountain) require the same amount of energy.

• The tutorial tip about short and long rides is removed.

The rides now require a few more hours to be complete, but eat up less energy for each hour worth of ride.

Game Navigation

With the merge of inventories and stores, changes are made to the game interface.

In the navigation bar, a trade menu is added in which the following pages are available:

• Sales
• Store (breeder store and equestrian center store merged)
• Item exchange (uses the same icon as the Invite players'’ page)
• My passes

The rankings menu is now called ‘’achievements. It also includes the My trophies page.

The Profile menu is removed. The pages previously displayed in this menu are moved to various locations:

• My passes is moved to the ‘’trade menu, as mentioned above
• My trophies is moved to the ‘’achievements menu, as mentioned above
• My page is moved to the community menu, between My private mailbox and My friends
• The My account page is now available via a gear icon at the upper right corner of the screen.

Boarded Horses

Information has been added to the boarder's pop-up on the boxes page.

On the boxes page, in the boarder’s info pop-up, the following is added:

• Number of lessons taken by the horse since boarding started
• Average number of lessons per day
• Equestrian center equipment used by the horse

Note*: If a horse has not made use of any of the equipment that is being offered by the equestrian center, the equipment section doesn’t appear.

Competitions

The competitions page is updated to include competitions data, easier competition creation options, and a merge of the management and competition race pages.

Equestrian Center - Adding Locations

Equestrian centers will now select a Forest, Beach, or Mountain location.

For now, the location has an impact on the rides available to boarders, and prepares for the future arrival of harvestable materials based on the Equestrian Center location.

Once the location has been chosen, it cannot be changed.

New Equestrian Centers
• Locations are established during the EC creation.
• The Equestrian Center creation page has a new look and a new specialization field.
• A tooltip for each specialty indicates which types of competitions can be hosted at the EC.

Existing Equestrian Centers
• Players have the option to choose their preferred location via a pop-up window that opens when visiting the center's office.
• With the next update players will have 30 days to select a definitive location. During these 30 days players will be able to switch between locations to discover which one has their preference.
• After 30 days with no location selected, a location will automatically be assigned to your EC (chosen randomly).
• The time remaining until a location is assigned by default or the location you selected is definitive is shown in the pop-up.
• While an Equestrian Center has no location, bonuses cannot be provided to boarders.

An image denoting an equestrian center's location is now visible on every page where the name of the center is shown:

• Profile page
• Boarding registration
• Equestrian center rankings
• Equestrian Center forums

using an icon (forest, beach or mountain) right next to the name of the center. This icon replaces the current Divine Horses icon shown by the name of equestrian centers that have more than 5 divine horses boarded.

Equestrian Center Office
• The location of an Equestrian Center is displayed below the page description in the EC center's office.
Equestrian Center Profile page
• An equestrian center's location is indicated by an icon next to the name of the center.
• We have now added a "Number of divine horses” field to the equestrian center profile page.
• We deleted the following:
• • reserve
• • number of boxes

•The Minimum boarding duration and Maximum boarding duration are merged

Equestrian Center Registration page
• In the search criteria, the search criteria Prestige has been placed between the Director and Advantages criteria. The Location criteria has also been added between the Lesson gains and Specialty criteria.

Game Help
• A section called Location was added to the equestrian center manual.

Equestrian Center Registration - Finding your own EC

Equestrian Center search now includes a Show my equestrian center button.

• If a player runs a search and clicks the Show the best equestrian centers button, the Show my equestrian center button disappears. It only appears again if the player cancels their search.
• When a player clicks the Show my equestrian center button they see only their own equestrian center, as if they had run a search by owner name and entered their own name.
• Additionally, if the player's equestrian center is not available, an alert message appears to explain what the problem is (no boxes available, the horse doesn't meet the requirements, etc.).

Error message when covering reservation

A new error message is added to horse cover requests.

An error message will appear when attempting a covering Reserved for one of my mares when no mare is available.

A new series of 5 divine horses is introduced: ancient divines

• Hyracotherium
• Hipparion
• Hippidion
• Tarpan
• Forest Horse

A new trophy is added to the divine horses collection: Ancient horses.

Breeder and Equestrian Center reserves and inventory have been merged to make them easier to manage.

Merging Inventories

The Equestrian Center inventory is removed. All items in this inventory are now moved to the breeder's inventory.

Droppings, previously under Agriculture at the equestrian center store, and under Miscellaneous in the breeder's store, remains under Miscellaneous.

Stores

Since inventories are merged, stores are merged as well.

• The equestrian center store page is removed
• Agriculture and Box sections are added (as well as all their associated items) to the breeder's store page.
• Purchasing boxes, meadows, greenhouses, racing tracks and calves is done via the page where they are used as before.
• Droppings can no longer be purchased at the store. It is however still possible to sell it.
• Manure fertilizer is added to the store, under Agriculture then Fertilizer
• The Materials subsection is removed from the Agriculture section.

Item donations

In the item donation pop-up window, all the items that can be donated are grouped under various tabs that follow the same logic as the inventory on the Store page (except categories in which no item can be donated, such as Bonus and Black market). The following tabs can be found:

• Food
• Equipment
• Agriculture
• Box
• Miscellaneous
• Scarecrows and Showers cannot be donated, as before.

Custom UFO's

Pegasus and VIP members have a custom UFO option on their My Page.

• Any item in the inventory can be used in custom UFO's.
• The list of items is updated to include items related to Equestrian Centers and are still sorted by categories, just like the inventory.

Storage Merge

The equestrian center now uses the breeder's own storage, which become the sole storage for players.

• The breeder's reserve appears at the top of each game page.
• All earnings and expenses tied to the equestrian center now appear in the financial history located in the breeder section.
• The equestrian center's financial history is removed.
• The financial history now includes Equus earnings and expenses for the equestrian center.

The Magic Ride contest for the 2014 holiday season

Like the previous edition of this contest, players roll a dice then move across the game board. Certain squares contain gifts, other squares allow for faster progress.

The Magic Ride contest is followed by unwrapping of gifts on a designated date that have been gathered during the game.

Elven packs will be available for purchase in the Black Market for specific dates during the game, and are available during pre-production for testing.

The contest comes with 3 jackpots:

2 Prehistoric divine horses
a Greyfell among those not yet owned

At first I was happy about more interactivity with cattle (I love cows) then I realized we were killing them! It's going to be hard to progress in my EC...
Also, we have all this information about the new divines, did I miss when someone posted their pictures? I already know about Tarpan and Hippodion, but what about the others? And what does the forest horse do? Thanks!

new rides. I wish you could choose thr skills, it will be very unfair to anyone who doesnt breed GVs/Arabs/Related Breeds... with them having to do double the rides.

This object get dresses that are missing. It can enable you to get dresses that have become difficult to find or be able to acquire limited use dresses that you missed when removed.

This is limited in several ways:
Less than 25 copies on Game: dresses not sold with this item between 25 and 50 copies of the game: 3 additional copies on sale between 51 and 75 copies: 5 additional copies

Between 76 and 100 copies: 10 additional copies More than 100 copies: 20 additional copies A player can not buy a copy for a particular dress (according to the same principle as previews VIP).
This is to maintain the same level of rarity of the dress before the appearance of the object and avoid that the same people who get the most interesting dresses to trade.

If a dress becomes extinct after the arrival of the object, it is added in the list and the number of copies available is calculated the same way as for dresses already disappeared before the line.

When all copies have been made ​​available for a given color, it disappears from the list and it can not be made. We will ensure that the Apple Golden Extinct is available against the pass on preprod so you can test it.

Only on preprod so the real game it will take the Vintage pack for it. All of this is not yet quite ready, it will have to wait a bit before testing

Lipizzaner coming to howrse!

anyone know what skills they might have? the zanners i mean

Eep, yay...a time to get my Greyfell a friend

it says until the first of december on top, so that means that is when the test is closing which leads to the magic ride coming to the live server probably the next day or that day.

there would be a catch to all this change, like more places for passes. And cows count as crops, they gave us 1 more field, so we are going to have to figure out, crops or cows.

Anyone else just get lost? Oh well at least we get a break in Dec.

I thought Lippazaners were already on Howrse... they are the Purebred Spanish Horse... right?