[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2024

Our developers have something to tell you! Every three (3) weeks, our devs will provide you with information about their work in the “Dev’s Corner.”

This publication is a way of keeping everyone updated on what’s happening with the game. We invite you to discuss and leave your feedback for each of the publications.

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The Howrse Team
 
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I think the new buttons are cool, mostly because I like how they gray out after you use them, so that's a huge plus. I personally really like the change.

But I think a "button mode" would be a better option than to leave them as is for every player. I can understand why the color would be too bright for some people; especially when compared to the rest of the game, which has such a soothing green color. default smiley (a)
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I get bad migraines too. These buttons hurt to look at even with screen brightness on its lowest. They're also real ugly. I hope they change them back or make an option to choose what colors we use.default smiley :(
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Thank you for sharing your feedback about the latest game update!
EchOw
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It would be really nice if you could just make a button saying feed without having to select the amount of fodder to feed your horse. It would waste less of my day. Thanks Devs
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Starbafs wrote:

It would be really nice if you could just make a button saying feed without having to select the amount of fodder to feed your horse. It would waste less of my day. Thanks Devs


There's already a VIP perk that does this. The reason it isn't implemented automatically is because there is no 'set' amount of food to feed your horse across all playstyles. People who only AP farm will feed less, people who are trying to BLUP quickly or run a lot of comps will be working and feeding more, and sometimes going off the recommended amount to achieve the results they want.
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While we are on app theme,
Is there any chance covers page can be updated?
Not showing every cover from same stallion, but "stallion Fru-Fru, 7 covers available".
Scrolling page and pages and pages of same horse with negative blup is devastating. And filters don't work properly default smiley :(
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Crookedstar915 wrote:

There's already a VIP perk that does this. The reason it isn't implemented automatically is because there is no 'set' amount of food to feed your horse across all playstyles. People who only AP farm will feed less, people who are trying to BLUP quickly or run a lot of comps will be working and feeding more, and sometimes going off the recommended amount to achieve the results they want.


There actually is a preset amount of feed based on the species, weight, and work your horse has done. Since autofeed is creating a small shortcut that makes it so you're not being forced to manually select an amount of feed to feed your horse, there has to be a set amount of feed to feed them. (The amount of times I typed "feed" lol...) So, when AP farming, the amount of food is already pre-selected, and you just need to press the second feed button. Same with competitive BLUPing. I typically feed after the work is done, so the pre-selected food works perfectly well.

However, being able to feed the horse with only one click over two clicks would actually be a better additional VIP feature. It could easily be toggled on and off on the horse's page, similar to how autobed works, too. The two clicks can be a waste of time when we're talking about speed and efficiency, and reducing it down to one click when you're only feeding pre-selected feed would be nice when it's needed. It's slightly better if you turn off the new interface for selecting length of actions, as your cursor doesn't have to move as far. But, I really, really wish they'd implement this. It would make for a great divine perk.default smiley :)
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"Mobile version: refreshed graphics of the action buttons on the horse"

Okay, not needed but maybe a positive thing on mobile? I don't know as I never play on mobile. Doesn't seem to be appreciated, though.


"A new rotation of the special horses in the Ascent of Olympus has been implemented, so from now on you will find four of them each time. These changes will reduce the randomness of divine fragments in your games. This will also make it easier for you to get the fragments of a particular divine horse in an Ascent of Olympus."

I'm not sure I understand. Isn't that what we had already? Four divines aside from the jackpot? I'm not sure how this reduces randomness or how it makes it easier.



I think I've given up hope for my poor precious trophies, and the unfortunate HC redesign, but couldn't some things that are straight up broken get fixed?

Like the advertisements? There's advertisements for the advertisements (don't even get me started on this) but then you click on it and it's like "Whoops! We don't actually have any there any more - please try again later like it will make any difference at all because we're pretending it's just a little short-term temporary blip - nothing to worry about."
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[quote=1404411971][author]Veren[/author]
Like the advertisements? There's advertisements for the advertisements (don't even get me started on this) but then you click on it and it's like "Whoops! We don't actually have any there any more - please try again later like it will make any difference at all because we're pretending it's just a little short-term temporary blip - nothing to worry about."[/quote:0]

They confirmed they aren't going to fix these. Why they don't remove the advertising banner that still shows it as an option, I don't know.
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I loved this event! Thank you for making it fun!
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EchOw
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Love the change they are making for reserved sales during the Black Friday events. Hopefully the prices in reserved offerings will reflect true Black Friday "SALES."

Also interested in the loyalty meter and Golden Divine Fragments. What in the heck are they? Guess we will find out soon.

Also loving the idea of having a Program of Sales to plan purchases better. It will sure make it easier to figure out when to spend and when to save for a shot at a horse I like/need more.

I can feel my Pass and Equus reserves getting thinner already!
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Never had this problem

Never had this problem

Never had this problem

How about allowing more crop land for large equestrian centers?

Will give props for the added inkwell in sales default smiley (y) nice job
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Kind of sad. From what I am understanding the only way to get gold fragments is by winning the flash sales. For someone that works in retail on this very busy weekend it is virtually impossible for me to be able to be on and participate in them. I have been wanting Gold for so long and was really hoping that any and all sales might count for him. Alas, not to be this time.default smiley :'(
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I don't do Black Friday and have never had any of those issues so not a very exciting update personally.

But... yeah I guess the new Inkwell in the Sales is nice.
Crookedstar915
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sofizzy wrote:

From what I am understanding the only way to get gold fragments is by winning the flash sales.


Under a spoiler tag just in case:

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Gold will also be in luck items that weekend
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jsniper, thanks for the info. I thought I did see that somewhere but couldn't remember where and was thinking that maybe it was just wishful thinking..lol
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Trophies aren't updated properly yet. default smiley :s
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Nalu93 wrote:

Trophies aren't updated properly yet. default smiley :s


Yes, I have a lot of newly added Ascent of Olympus trophies that are already on a silver, or diamond\platinum level, yet I have received no progress on my gift bar, and the number of trophies I achieved have not been added to my total?

Do I just not receive these things or?
Eva77
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Eva77 wrote:

on a silver, or diamond\platinum level,


Those are born on Silver and Platinum level, there are no points there.

The trophies that should be updated are:
- Total ascent
- Total Drachma wins
- Total Obol wins

That's it default smiley :)
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EchOw
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EchOw wrote:

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Any ETA for the update of the Trophies, EchOw? default smiley :(
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@Nalu93 ahh okay I understand, still makes no sense to me however why trophies are started at these levels
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Eva77 wrote:

@Nalu93 ahh okay I understand, still makes no sense to me however why trophies are started at these levels


Because they're HARD. No point in giving you 20 mere points for a difficult feat default smiley :)
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