I quite like the Highland Pony.

I agree. I've been to the Scottish Highlands a number of times, and know many people with Highland Ponies, and they do not look like this.
This seems to be a slight issue on Howrse: Horses that look like they were assembled from completely disparate parts...

M. Bloods? Anyone?

From what I understand, if you have a horse with a GA *horse* coat, and a M. blood, the M. blood will be removed and put back into your inventory. This won't be happening for a while I assume. Once that does start to happen, if you have a horse with a *horse* GA coat, and then you put a M. blood on it, the GA will be lost.

well i have a retired coat with a M blood on it :/

Reposting my question because I'm still hopelessly confused...Would be grateful if someone could explain, please... If I understand this right (and probably don't) if we put MB on a horse, we can then pick a GA coat that has wings? (I'm assuming this since I have the option to pick a unicorn GA coat for my actual unicorns...)....But with this new change, they take away the MB + GA combo so.....No more GA coats with wings? If that's the case (and those who HAVE winged GA coat and lose it ) will we be able to select them still, or will they just...Cease to be available?

Any horse with a ga that does not have wing and has a mb the mb will be removed no sure about the coat. So in that case if you want the mb bonus and a ga you will have to add wings then the ga or you can get rid of the ga add wing and add a ga

Basically the Golden apple coats Must now reflect what the species of equid is.
If you have a pegasus it will be a Pegasus Golden Apple coat
If it a Unicorn it will be a Uni GA coat
If it is a horse it will be a Horse GA coat
The new kicker is..
If you have Horse GA coat and then decide to give Medusa blood .. you loose the GA coat
If you have a pony GA coat and decide to give it Medusa blood.. you lose the pony GA coat
Just like during promos If you have GA uni and dehorn it turning it into a horse.. you lose the GA Unicorn coat, If you have a pegasus and pluck its wings turning it into a horse you lose your Pegasus GA coat

I'm liking the new horse coats and looking forward to fraternal twins with the Hera Pack for a VIP perk. Sounds exciting. Have they already added that perk to the Hera Lack or is it still in testing??

How do you get chosen to be on the test version? Or can you still join the the test/beta version?

Regardless of whether those boxes are a temporary fix or a permanent solution, there is ample evidence to suggest that our DAs are going to remain untouched when the new base graphics are introduced to the game.

When are the ec changes taking place?

[*spoiler] I don't know [*/spoiler]

I know I left the stars in on purpose

Do not know if they will all savages at the end of the book?

whats the next promo, ive heard it was the

What is going to happen with the ga coats, can someone please expainabout the Pegasus coats too?

Another post, can someone post a pic of

does anyone have the pictures of all the new coats coming? And possibly label which breed it is? thanks

Does anyone know if Blue roans are ever coming out?

Does anyone know what the next promo will be and when?

Anyone know if Pearl will be released soon?

REVIEW OF THE EQUESTRIAN CENTERS

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Pamela
As you mind remember, a few months ago, we asked what new features you would like for the equestrian centers.
Our plan is to refresh that part of the game. Indeed, we haven’t launched any new features for the equestrian centers in ages. And they really need it now!
So here are a few new features or improvements that we want to launch in the following months.

Refreshing of the equestrian center pages
Many among you asked for it, we will review the interfaces of some pages of the equestrian centers, such as the page where you manage your boxes, or the one where you manage your meadows. Looking after your equestrian center will become much more practical!

Removal of the jobs
Hiring employees for your equestrian center may be a difficult task for you; there are often more job offers than players who are searching for a job. Employees and particularly temporary employees can also be too expensive for beginner equestrian centers which don’t have large fertile meadows to grow crops yet. Moreover, having a job isn’t very interesting; you can earn much more Equus with your horses than with your job. So we have decided to delete the jobs. However, equestrian centers will continue to have the possibility to provide the horseshoes bonus, or saddle and bridle for their boarders by making or buying them and installing them in a box, just like for showers.

Beach, forest and mountain
Then we will add locations for the equestrian centers. That means you will be able to install your center either near a forest, a beach, or even on a mountain.
The presence of such locations will allow us improving the rides, which are currently very tedious for you. There will be only 3 types of rides, instead of the current 7: rides in forest, rides in mountain, and rides on beach. Yes, you won’t have to do a lot of short rides in a day to develop your horses’ speed skills anymore! One lengthy ride a day will be enough.
And thanks to forests, we will probably launch draught horses on the game in order to unload wood! We know you have been asking for them for a long time.

A new economic system
Forests and mountains will also offer another benefit; they will provide you with raw materials, in order to craft items or produce by yourself, instead of having to buy them. For example, you will have to get wood from the forest with your horses. And thanks to that wood you will create wood chip bedding or boxes.
Indeed, all the items that are available at the stores will be only created by players. And the price of these items will depend on the quantities you will sell and buy. So this economic system will be totally independent from us. There will be more interactions between you, players. This should make the game more strategic.
In order to launch such a system, we will have to realize some changes on the items we currently have on the game. For example, barley will be deleted, whereas wood will be added, as said above. But you will discover more details about all the items and the production lines in our next publication.

Merge of the reserves
As some items or produces can be used either for the equestrian center or for the breeders’ account, we have decided to merge your equestrian center inventory and Equus reserve with your breeding account ones. Thanks to that, you won’t have to buy some items on one side, and sell the same items on the other anymore. For example, to make manure for your crops, you will be able to directly use the droppings from your horses.

More interactions with the equestrian center in horses’ actions
We also want to make the equestrian center a more important part of the game. So we have decided to link more horses’ actions with them.
The best equestrian centers will enable your horses to get more energy or moral when they are fed, watered or groomed. Or they will allow you to do rides faster according to their location.
We are also thinking about merging the feeding action and the meadow, as they both feed the horses.
Riding lessons will be replaced by different missions offered by the equestrian center where your horses are boarded. And the reward for the missions can be different according to the mission chosen (Equus, wood, treats, or other things…). Of course any mission will increase your horses’ skills in their two best potentials, the same way as the lessons do.

They often have a lot of anatomy issues... Often the backs are too short, the legs are strangely shaped, so are the heads.... So it doesn't really surprise me that they often make breeds look nothing like the breed at all.

Now, I know it's difficult, I often find it difficult to make a breed look like that breed.. But they're professionals, those who make the graphics..

I tried to make a highland pony the other day and I have no idea if it actually looks like one at all.. It looks like a pony so I guess it's close enough