New features

It’s a great change. If someone on your team sees a loan is available and takes it, presumably it’s to breed or blup so what’s the problem? They are cracking down on accounts that are otherwise inactive or are being used to drain resources from.

"To be eligible for team rating, teams must have been created at least 10 days before the rating day."

This is a great start, but you could improve on this by making it impossible to change the allowed team sales GP within a few days of rating, to prevent players changing it and then selling close to top stock to an already made team and breeding from it to add to their team and taking someone else's ranking unfairly. I've seen it happen and personally experienced it and, truth be told, it's a massive slap in the face after working hard all month just to have that happen.

Like I mentioned, I'm asleep when team members loan mares to my account for tearing. The do the breeding and when I wake up I sell the foals from the mare.. If I'm not online to "accept" then no one can use my free tears.

Regarding safe haven, it cost more to breed a horse than safe haven pays. I only use it for objectives as anyone can sell a horse for more equs in the direct sales. For new players that aren’t well established with the game it is a big loss for that player. For long time players it changes nothing

>>>>> team owners who get banned or are inactive for more than 30 consecutive days will be replaced by a VIP player who has contributed the most to the team <<<<<<
… what in the everliving…. is this?
Basically you're telling me I can get kicked/replaced from my own team if I’m sick, afk, on vacation etc for 30 days?
I am usually online every day. But things happens howrse, it’s called RL.
For the last week I’ve been really really sick, and haven’t been online.

So what about a few teams, where I’m the sole member atm… if something happens and I cannot get online…then what? You delete the teams…or????

And the autoaffix… like seriously.
Have you guys never heard about breeding a foal for a friend, when you do not want it affixed, or listed in your line, like continuous lines where it matters that all horses that are listed, haven’t been SH’d, deleted because the owner quit the game etc etc……….or the friend would like an unaffixed horse.
What about non unis, born from uni parents, do you autoaffix those as well?

It’s not like it’s rocket science to affix a horse. I do not nessesarily want an affix on a horse, AND if I do I’ll affix it myself thank you very much. Now I have to go through the annoyace of REMOVING an affix in stead of actively choosing to affix a horse.
What will be next auto blup?

I’m getting so FED up with all the changes that makes the game more and more jungle adventures to play. It’s turning more and more into an obstacle court, the fun is vanishing and fast.

There are SO many features and needs fixing. In stead of fixing those we get autoaffix, kicked from teams, and moving of the SH feature.

I’m so seriously angry right now I’ll stop writing more.

That's unfortunate and it makes it just as hard if we're on vacation and genuinely can't get online but maybe then it requires coordinating and having someone else around to breed once you accept the loan? It's unfortunate that people who don't play by the rules are the ones who wreck it for the rest but this has been going on for years so I'm glad to see them take some action. Maybe they will reverse it if people learn to play by the rules

I do not envision that on the 31st day you're getting evicted from your own team but there are legitimate teams who have spent years wondering where their leader has gone.... Or, maybe the leader is really gone....

And if you've ever blupped on an ipad, the auto affix is a nice treat. It's painful scrolling through the list....

That's called being spiteful, and I'm not sure they should code for people's behavior. Why should I not be able to provide a sales list within x number of days because someone you know wants to annoy you? I provide a list when it's warranted not because I want to punish someone or another team. The rewards aren't reflective of the effort, but the real reward should be the work you and your team do.

I just tested this on preprod, and it looks like you can avoid auto-affix by not setting a sales cap, or setting the cap above the GP you breed as I think the manual says it's auto-affixed if the foal is higher than the maximum set for the sales cap. If you choose to affix you can still do it manually

I don't whether that's efficient based on your team play style, but it's a way to work with it, especially for those who don't want/need the sales cap

At the very least it should lead to sanctions if teams are caught doing it, as it is spiteful and shouldn't be allowed. One of the most rewarding parts of being in a team is seeing your team rise up through the ranks, so it is upsetting losing your earned place due to poor sportsmanship.

I am posting before reading the other posts because I cannot figure out where the quoted info is coming from. For whatever reason, I can't scroll down in the main post. These might be easier if the older stuff got cleared to a secondary discussion thread to make way for discussion about the latest. This whole forum is clumsy, but it should still be possible to do that, at least.

Yes, I should know where to find the info by now, but this is the first time I've tried, and it's been an exercise in frustration.

A useful feature, if possible, would be to prevent the current top stallions coverings expiring. This isn't a problem for highly active teams, but when you are on teams that can go awhile without blupping, it does become a bit of a problem due to the covering offers expiring.

Okay, I actually stumbled on the proper page, and I'm puzzled. They think people don't do Safe Haven because they don't know how to access it? Um... Okay. Wow. But they somehow think that raising the "sale price" by 100e is going to make a difference? Buahahahahaaa!!! That's actually hilarious!

I'm not on any teams. But, at least loans can't be picked up by any old person. It has to be a team member. I don't know how much difference that can make.

I don't have anything to add from the other posts, but I would like to say that the ability to QUOTE posts on the MOBILE version of the forum would be very nice. Also, a tutorial on how to not get messages that say, "You can't edit the quote" and "you can't quote a post with a quote", which is nuts. But I have been wanting a better BB system since I joined, so I don't really expect any movement there.

I am disappointed that my suggestion to also limit the GP on team studs, public covers was not taken up, as there still lies the avenue for those that wish to create havoc for a team, can still do so.

Anyone else see where we can remove someone else's affixes on non team horses? What is the point of affixing if the new owner is just going to remove it?

Dude, I can't believe you raised the money we get from putting a regular horse in Safe Haven by 100 whole equus! Such an amazing change! I will definitely be using the Save Haven more now.

The only issue I'm seeing right now, is that only affixed team mares can accept covers from a team stud. Like, what if I buy a mare from another player and want to breed her to a top team stud?

What if I want to do a crossbred and there's nothing in publics as high or higher than the top team stud?

It's not possible to do so. It was discussed a bit on the last page, I think, but even though it sort of displays like it will let you remove it, it actually doesn't

"Caught"? What a silly adjective. If I want to release GP that is a certain amount of points from the team I'm on that's my prerogative and has nothing to do with where other teams are.

Of course there is something kind of amusing that you think teams need to be sanctioned for game play.

I don't have a problem with teams setting a sales GP, but what I do have a problem with is teams selling a close to top GP horse to a rival team at the last minute to prevent another team ranking their deserved place, or members taking high GP from one team and then making a second with foals bred from the horses and claiming that rating.

I think it's funny that Howrse thinks that we don't use safe haven because we don't know how to do it. If Howrse raised the rate of safe haven to 4,000 equus, which is what we get in sales for the cheapest horses, then surprise! Suddenly everyone will know how to use safe haven.

Just a thought.

[quote=1403725488][author]keepsake[/author]The only issue I'm seeing right now, is that only affixed team mares can accept covers from a team stud. Like, what if I buy a mare from another player and want to breed her to a top team stud?

What if I want to do a crossbred and there's nothing in publics as high or higher than the top team stud?[/quote:0]I just tested this, and was able to cover a non-team mare with a team stud
That was me offering a public cover, so perhaps the change log means team covers are now only for team mares? I thought that was how it worked before, but the only time I do anything with teams is testing on preprod, so maybe it didn't used to work that way.

I highly dislike the changes to breeding. I like to breed out auto fillers using old team covers. Because I’m a relatively new player, I don’t have many team studs of my own. This update has made it next to impossible for me to continue breeding out fillers. If Howrse doesn’t want us to breed as much, why have rankings based on the number of horses a player has or the number of horses a team has bred out? Just my two cents.

I actually like the new loaning system. It’s easier to use with players on a team that have sales bans.

The safe haven change doesn’t allow players with a sales ban to put horses in the safe haven, so doesn’t seem like that’s a plus, but it doesn’t personally affect me.

Even if it was something like 2500 I'd be a lot more likely to sell them there, but with my high reserve I am at a big loss if I bred and sold to the Safe Haven.

Ann, team covers aren't in publics. They are in team covers.