That is going to be horrible for some of us, people who don't have very good equestrian centres that charge the maximum amount of equus, and a stay for 5 days unless you have Spring and you are a VIP? That is 1,000 equus just to board in a EC, I can get tack items for less than that.

Oh ew, just realized something. Mountains = stamina, dressage, and jumping; forest = gallop, trot, and speed. This does not match up with my Hunters' skill set...blegh. Wish both types of rides offered all 6 skills, instead of having to finagle between different types of EC's just to get rides done.

People have raised that issue on preprod and the devs are apparently looking into it.



It has been mentioned elsewhere that retired golden apples may only be used where coats have been taken out of circulation - so for instance, where something like a 100 use retired coat has less than 100 copies in the game because of people deleting their accounts or killing the horse wearing the coat. The number of copies in the game won't exceed the original limit set on the coat if the information is correct.

Luthien Tinuviel - You can do all three ride types in any EC. The ones that don't match the ECs location just take longer that's all (when the types match there is a x2 bonus I believe - kind of like the Chronos' Timer but for that ride type only).

I think I might try to coordinate my EC location with my friends so that we have both Forest and Mountains available for blupping - it should take the same time as only doing one ride type Can't wait for this change, not having to do speed rides is going to be awesome!

Here's the Change Log info about the EC location and rides

Yep, the rides are horrible as well, also, with arabian horses, all you needed to do was trot rides, after the update its going to have to be more then 1 ride.

*wipes sweat off brow* Whew, that's a relief to know! Hopefully I won't have to mess with my training program too much with the new rides.

Do you mean gallop rides? To be fair, you have to do both long and short gallop rides with Arabians. That's the same issue I have with Criollos XD
I've always envied Western Pleasure, Reining and XC breeds, they just need to do long rides. Looks like only XC breeds will have an advantage after the rides are changed.

Actually, with trot, since a purebred Arabian Horse's top 3 skills is Stamina, Speed, and Dressage, you could do long and short rides with the horse to complete those 3 skills provided you did the training and won all the skill points for those skills in comps.

And after the changes when we can manufacture our own items, will it be more profitable to use the ec as a boost to the breeders side of the game, as in make items only for breeding use and not have any boarders. Or would it be better to have a public ec, or private ec? I'm really interested to see how people will use the ec changes to their advantages.
I'm gonna guess that the prices of horses will go up.

Ah yep, my mistake. I was thinking gallop because they're used for the Barrels Grand Prix, but for blupping I guess gallop doesn't matter.

Criollos have the same three top skills (but in a different order). What I normally do is complete long gallop rides for the stamina and short trot rides for the speed. That way the horse has more skills once it's blupped which is useful for the general ranking

I have to do both long and short for my PSH and I manage to BLUP by 10 easy can't imagine the changes to rides is going to make that harder

@Ruby

As a person on Int the loss nof being able to buy droppings is in essence wiping out a source of equus for the ECs.

I buy them on the Ind ( the allotted 1000 per day) and every second day or so would sell a percentage of the dropping converted to manure.

I get roughly 19,000 e every 3rd day and it makes a huge difference in increasing your ECs reserves.

On the regional servers I have been getting any dropping I can and even here it has helped in getting my EC reserve up there.

19,000e from selling the manure?

1000 dropping = 200 manure

cost of buying the droppings= 6,000e
gain from selling the manure = 7,600e
profit per day = 1,600e

Unless I'm missing something which is entirely possible I'm kinda derpy and tired today.

There are better ways of making equus for ECs. With crops (at least for the time being) we should be able to make up to 600k per month. I've also been experimenting with making my EC public for the first time since I started it and now that has netted me ~90k every three days from boarders.
I started off by increasing the number of 1* boxes by around 40 and then with all the profits I ended going from 67 boxes to 156!
So far it seems like the only thing that might be difficult to provide at a sustainable rate (excluding tack) is mashes - although I have noticed that the yield for apples has increased by a lot so I think Howrse addressed that before it became a problem.

I have a table of various crop growing scenarios I can post if you want to check that out. The prices are going to change once the supply/demand mechanism is implemented. Oh and it's probably not any good for this server since we get less money for selling flax bedding for some reason =/

I should have clarified that the EC I'm experimenting with is my Int one...

[spoiler]i want to know more about the draft horses[spoiler]


are they on prepod does anyone know anything?

@Freehold or anyone on the test server:

stalking the international spoiler forums:



i love stalking!!!

Yep, the Halflingers will be coming in the Christmas promo as well. They come in flaxen chestnut, flaxen liver chestnut, and palomino (of course!). So stoked for this event!

No not yet, they'll be in a later update I think.

The main things being tested are:

...Well then. Never mind about the Halflingers then.

They might still be in there somewhere.

Ooh, just thought of something. Why don't the Prehistoric Horses have scientific names? Why is there no Eohippus, or Mesohippus? Without those guys, we wouldn't have modern horses, and thus no game. Plus it sounds cool.

Seems like the Retired Golden Apple BMI is not coming out after all.
Ow posted on the test server that they have revised their decision to add the item to the game after people complained.