What would count as ''overdoing it'' with a gaming mouse?

I doubt you would be given an answer to that question as it leaves a 'ceiling'for people to potentially work up to, but not over, to stay within fair use?

By not stating, people will have to regulate their own use and ensure themselves that they are not going to be potentially deemed at gaining an advantage over other players.

Surely this would be more beneficial in the gameplay forum?

It is very well-known that religious content from Christian players are widely tolerated on the international server, and nothing is being done about it. When the topic is brought up, several people confirm that they received religious content in their private messages and nothing was done upon reporting such messages as a rule-break. When I personally contacted the mods or admins about heavily religious, almost-if-not-totally preaching profiles, nothing concrete was done either.

Freedom of religion, ok. What about freedom *from* religion? The game is French, let us bring on its international version one of the most important parts of French culture, one that ensures everyone feels comfortable.

If players from the LGBT community aren't even allowed to simply state who they are because the words are black-listed, why should one be confronted to lengths and lengths of religious content on way too many profiles? If you're going to black-list a single word describing one's romantic interest, then also black-list a single word describing one's religious affiliation.

It's nice to state here that the game is not the appropriate place to bring up such topics, but if in practice you limit the expression of only a handful of those topics and let the others be freely talked about (including in harmful ways, cf. players explaining why you shouldn't trust science and indeed follow their beliefs), then it's not only ineffective but also unfair and can make the social side of the game an unpleasing place to be, to say the least.

Welcome to Howrse international server: where writing poetry in another language than English gets you a warning and your presentation deleted, but you can preach your religion all you want.

All of the other servers I have played and still play on have none of these issues. There is no reason why this server should be allowed to be different.

What I gathered from this is that Howrse won't give you clear rules so you don't know when you're breaking them and then they hit you with an unfair karma dock or ban
If they only wanted you to use something a certain amount then how does anyone benefit from not knowing the amount? The rules and clarifications on this game are wack

Interesting how they updated the trafficking info, and now it appears they've made something totally innocent and within the game's rules punishable?? Listing BMIs as "for sale" on your page is now evidence of trafficking folks. Even though the item exchange literally allows for BMIs to be traded for equus, thus being bought and sold. The team really should further edit and provide clarification on this, because even if you assume that they just mean selling untradeable BMIs is trafficking (which it 100% is), the way it's currently written implies that it's all of them, and that could pose some problems.

Also totally agree with the opinions being shared here. Writing strict rules about a broad number of topics, and failing to enforce them equally is completely unfair. Years ago, someone started a topic in the gameplay forum to ask how to report a female player for having a profile picture featuring her and her girlfriend. I got an automatic forum ban for saying that being [her sexual orientation] isn't inherently wrong and doesn't explicitly break any rules. I then had my presentation deleted because I had added the reason I was temporarily banned from the forums. Yet the religious propaganda (almost exclusively from christians) is EVERYWHERE and is almost never removed, even when reported. I personally would be fine with all these "controversial" topics being allowed, but it really grinds my gears how some are excused, while other players are sanctioned just for sharing basic information about who they are as a person.

These absolutely bonkers "guidelines" to "not overdo it" with items they've already told us do not break the rules are entirely unfair as well. It is either a clear statement that they WANT us to accidentally "break rules" so that they can slap us with sanctions (look at what happened to that top TB team last year), or they're half-way admitting that whatever software they use to detect scripting and other forms of cheating isn't sophisticated enough to differentiate between actually cheating, and players who use allowed efficiency-boosting accessories or methods properly.

YES!!! Back in 2017-18 (?), Linkclump was used by a lot of players. It's a browser extension that opens multiple tabs at once. Mods told us it was fine to use and we even shared (in a VIP topic) how we set up the extension to our personal liking. Then the great Spring Clean Up of 2018 happened and players that used LinkClump were deleted.

It was said LinkClump was a form of cheating as it helped a player play faster. All it does is open tabs. It doesn't interact with the page at all. It's the exact same as if a player set up multiple page URLs in a folder on their favorites. Lots of players lost their accounts with no option to fight the deletion because they used something they were told was ok.

Q: Why is there no sales/covers forum?

There used to be one years ago, but it was abused from players posting item trades instead. The sales and cover filters are quite extensive that so long as someone lists what they're selling (which most do anyway), it's really easy to find it with the search filters

Wondering if Howrse will ever publicly address the rampant trafficking going on in the Auctions almost daily

what do you mean by trafficking
but yes i hope so

"Can you explain what sanctions will given if a rule is broken?"
"No."

Why even put that in the FAQ? That's not even an answer.

You can't have more than one account on one server, right? Asking for a friend.

No, you can’t, you’ll be sanctioned and face one of them being deleted

You can have accounts on different servers though

@jsniper

Ok, thanks. That is what I though

the problem is there is no one answer. It might depend on the severity of the action and whether or not the person keeps doing it despite warnings for example. So, "no" is probably the most honest answer they can give as circumstances may dictate the sanction.

What do you mean?

Yeah, but isn't the Gameplay Forum for questions only?

Oh, whatever, these ARE all questions, forget it

Related to @Crystal Coven's message, is LinkClump banned on Howrse now?

The Game Play forum should be renamed The Help forum. It is far less confusing. And there are threads in the Events forum that are not about events at all. I hope that gets fixed at some point.

i wish that we could get more ageing points that would be awesome.

i wish they would add more ageing points

You can buy aging points in the Black Market for passes, and they drop randomly when you wake horses each day. You can also win them in events and get them as UFOs. They can be hard to get at first but they add up quickly.

I'm not sure if it's officially banned (specifically in the ToS) but we've been told that opening multiple tabs to farm quicker is ok as long as the number of tabs is reasonable. The problem? Everyone's definition of reasonable is different. I've heard of players that open 50 tabs, to me that's excessive. Personally, I only open max between 8-12.