[Survey] The Community Wandering Horses


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The Wandering Horses are back doing their adventurous things as they travel between players' breeding farms. Did you unlock the new Gregarious coat?

We would like to gather your thoughts and feedback about the event. Below are a series of questions you can rate: What was good about the event? What can be improved? Ratings range from 1 (the lowest) to 5 (the highest).

We always appreciate your feedback, but please remember the forum rules and keep it constructive!

Thank you for your time and feedback!

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The Howrse Team
EchOw
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I really wish that we could somehow have the choice of doing the Wanderer's objectives with either our own horses, or the Wanderers.

Working the Wanderers, specifically the training part, is too time consuming in addition to my regular horses. Training the Wanderers is a waste for me because they don't stay and the skill points don't contribute to my general ranking. Yes, it helps with comp wins and more equus, but I already have enough divines to work to get that equus. I'd rather have to train and work my own horses, even if it means twice as many required, than work horses that won't stay on my account.

Another change I wish could be made is seeing the public page of Wanderers. We can't see the skills of other players' Wanderers, which makes getting the two second place finishes with my Io divine trickier because I can't compare skills. It's a guess when I enter amongst Wanderers, and comps fill up so fast during this event that those are usually the only "Divines" I can enter with.
Legacy Ann
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I love the wondering horses. They have always been one of my favorite events. This one seemed like it was a lot easier to progress and finish without spending passes. I think many players were able to finish it.

I really enjoyed it, and am happy with the rewards I got. I don't mind working the wanderers, they bring in some extra equus. I hope we see the rest of the community wanderers join the game soon so we can work on getting those coats as well.default smiley :)
Rogin
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It was easy to complete on time.
Rewards were meh, but it's hard to complain about free stuff.
Emerald01
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Legacy Ann wrote:

I really wish that we could somehow have the choice of doing the Wanderer's objectives with either our own horses, or the Wanderers.

Working the Wanderers, specifically the training part, is too time consuming in addition to my regular horses. Training the Wanderers is a waste for me because they don't stay and the skill points don't contribute to my general ranking. Yes, it helps with comp wins and more equus, but I already have enough divines to work to get that equus. I'd rather have to train and work my own horses, even if it means twice as many required, than work horses that won't stay on my account.

I totally understand what you mean, but then the event wouldn't be fair. Some of the tasks to complete would be super easy to finish for people with a lot of horses, but way more difficult for newer players who have less than 8 horses.
This is I think the reason why we could only complete theses kind of tasks with the Wanderers (like the training, the missions, the carrots and the competitions).

And the main point is also regarding the aging points, that were specific to the Wanderers: if we had been able to use our regular horses for the event we could've avoided THE "big" difficulty of it... which is not the point! The rewards are free but you still have to earn them default smiley ;)
Rockin' Lou
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Other than that, I think that this event was really good. I've been able to complete all tasks and win all the Wanderers without too many difficulties (I spent passes like 2 or 3 times to use more aging points, but in the end I'm not even sure if it was really necessary).

I believe it was possible to complete the event for everyone, and not only top players or people with a lot of money to spend in the game (which is not always the case in other events).

I used to play a long time ago when the passes were wayyy more difficult to obtain and the BM items were 1, 2 or 3 passes, and I can tell you that this is way better, especially since we have objectives to earn more passes. This also helped a lot in the event for some people I believe.

Anyway, I'm digressing!
I really liked the event because I could finish it (it is the first time in my life that it ever happend yay)
Rockin' Lou
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This event is ok, however, the points were so low could not finish, so I completely disagree
with Rockin' Lou that it was possible for everyone to complete it, prizes were ok , but this is not one of my favourite events.
cruk
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I don't know why these wanderers were reused. It's always nice to get new wanderer designs.
SusanG
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Rockin' Lou wrote:

I totally understand what you mean, but then the event wouldn't be fair. Some of the tasks to complete would be super easy to finish for people with a lot of horses, but way more difficult for newer players who have less than 8 horses.
This is I think the reason why we could only complete theses kind of tasks with the Wanderers (like the training, the missions, the carrots and the competitions).

And the main point is also regarding the aging points, that were specific to the Wanderers: if we had been able to use our regular horses for the event we could've avoided THE "big" difficulty of it... which is not the point! The rewards are free but you still have to earn them
That's why I mentioned increasing the point requirement (depending on the amount of horses per player). I have no qualms with working hard if the rewards are worth itdefault smiley :)
In the first couple editions of the Wanderers we had to use our own horses for objectives, and the points was scaled according to the number you owned. It wasn't until the last few years that it changed to using Wanderer specific aging points and having only the Wanderers count.

So it is possible to do either way. I doubt it will happen because it's probably just the easy programming route to have the same requirements per player, which means using Wanderers.
Legacy Ann
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Much too time consuming. Monotonous and boring. Points set for each WH were set too low to really finish the event. Prizes....okay I suppose. Don't mind a little work for "free" stuff, things I don't have to purchase.
Shaunie
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I finished for the first time without passes. I only got nightmare for the rewards and want sunset moth coat and few others just not nightmare especially or fish coat.
Ravenknight
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The prizes were actually pretty decent, a solid amount of fragments in the prizes, and easy to complete without passes. My least favorite part is the reward coat. Probably the most ugly coat in the game. Solid 4/5 stars
WildKratts
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My least favorite event. The events typically add a layer of interest to playing the game. This event just requires more playing of the game. (Wake horses, care for horses, train, comps, etc.) It's the only event I don't put effort into. Some days I just skipped the extra event horses.
Mylo301
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Catsrule123
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It was fun and I liked the prizes. I just didn't like how sometimes completing actions only got you like 0.5 points!
MOOMOO
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My biggest annoyance with the wanderers is trying to find races for my two solar horses to enter into, Jupiter and Io, every race is filled with wanderers and you cannot check the skills of the wanderers. What would normally take a few minutes to find a suitable race to enter them into turned sometimes into hours. Very frustrating. default smiley :k
The whole promo is too time consuming, especially if you have heaps of other horses that need to be worked everyday. default smiley :@ certainly will be glad to see them all gone. default smiley :)
bugaluggs
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A bit sad that instead of getting new Wandering horses, we just got a bunch of the old designs.
ToothlessNightFury
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ToothlessNightFury wrote:

A bit sad that instead of getting new Wandering horses, we just got a bunch of the old designs.


5 of the designs were new.
Rogin
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Takes too long and spent too much so stopped.
Swedish Warrior
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My first time completing a wandering horses event and I really enjoyed it! A huge thank you to @Nalu for her pace checker and walk through! I am happy with my prizes and looking forward to the next WH event!! default smiley (l) Thank you @ Howrse team for keeping the game so awesome and fun!!
love_tricia
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Really dislike this event. It takes far too long to work all the horses and it is getting really tiresome to just end up with another bunch of useless companions and more coats that you can’t even sell for passes when you bother to put them on a horse.
If we have to use so much time doing an event then it would be nice to perhaps be rewarded with a divine at the end of it.
Unfortunately, these days it seems all the events just give us another coat and we have to use a load of passes buying crowns to get the divine. default smiley :(
jdean
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I completed all the tasks it was a pretty easy event. I only spent $2 on passes to speed it up. 10/10 I did get tired logging in every day to do tasks but it was far easier than any event I played by my surprise.
Applesauce.exe
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Yay free stuff!
Easy event too; I was offline for four days and still finished without passes.
Thanks, Horwse! default smiley (7)
p2g
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I wish there was more variety in tasks. Like the original wandering horses (Shy for example).
GirafficPark
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default smiley :s
didnt really care either way for this event, i dont use the coats because my horses arent really good enough to use them on yet, so in the stash shall everything i won wait

would be nice if contests hadnt cost like 300-2000e to enter, and you only had a limited amount of days to complete that horse.... i hate contests to start with because you never win as a casual player, someone always mass enters with some all star newborn they are blur ing up to sell and its like yay thanks for entering heres 4 equus back for the 6 contests per horse you entered to unlock one horse, temporarily

people are posting both that these are the same wanderers and others that like half of them are new? who cares when they arent even the reward
i think last year they were ALL the movie theme horses? at least they made sense together, these didntdefault smiley (o)
WanderLostGirl
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I don't mind the Wanderer tasks being Wanderer-specific personally, yes it gets a bit time-consuming in the later bit of the event, but ultimately I finished with days to spare and didn't touch any of them again after. You don't HAVE to keep working them if you don't want once the objectives are done and I didn't find it to be more time-consuming to play than, say, the Memory or Blast events, and unlike the Blast event, this one's actually fun. default smiley (8)

I know they used to be staggered by how many horses you own but for players like me with large collections, that would actually be a detriment. Some people have thousands of horses, they just don't work them and to have to play the event as if they're working every one of their horses daily would make it impossibly hard.
Crookedstar915
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