Oh dear god, I love Gypsy Vanners because of their coats. If they get changed I think I might boycott.

It seems as if Howrse is simply taking away the personality of the coats. Most of the new ones are just standing, facing straight ahead. Just there to represent the color and attempt to look like the actual horse(which most of them don't) Their eyes look horrible and you can hardly even see some of them.

Our current coats have personality that just makes you love them. The posing Marwari and Akhal-Tekes, the relaxed Lusitano, the plush Shetland...and many others. This is why we love them so much. They are just fine the way they are.

No! My poor Gypsy Vanners... I actually started breeding them at first just because I liked their coats. Now they are ruining them. If they get changed it's GA time for me.

I am glad they aren't changing the Fjord, and arabian too much. I kind of like the new knappstruper, trekaner, and hanoverian coats.

But I hate the thoroughbred coat, I breed mostly thoroughbred unis and now I am not sure if I want to. Some of these coats are atrocious. I normally try not to complain but I don't like these coats at all.

I think that might have something to do with the tack needing to fit.

Hmm I wonder if perhaps that's why the Gypsy Vanner doesn't have the feathers of the older model, lol I don't think I've ever seen a vanner with bandaged on before

I'm really sad to see the new potential Brumby coat...I really like the current one :c

A lot of these coats look like they were just made because the others were being changed, it looks like absolutely no effort went into them.
The only ones I like are the Arab, teke, KWPN and trakehner.
A lot of the others are worse than their previous coats by far. :///

I'll be starting a petition in my forum on "Not to change the howrse coats ans listening to breeders opinions before putting the changes" or something like that today evening. Maybe I'll see some of you there!

Oh dear, maybe I'm just used to the old coats but.....The new ones look absolutely off....The quality has decreased in the new breed graphics
*internal screaming*
I do like a couple like the Fjord and the Arabian (they haven't changed much anyway) and the Akhal-tekes however the way the others are standing and how....I don't know, how foal- ish they look is definitely a huge down point. It definitely looks less realistic and the mane and tails on some look like a complete mess.
Of course I'm only being picky but I really do prefer the old ones

We need to have a poll so that we can choose between coats. This would be super helpful and all the players would be much happier with the choices.

What about the foals?

We already voted to change the coats, we already chose. It's in the testing already and will be launched in a matter of days. They won't change it now..

I think the quality of the drawings increased a lot. The old coats are mostly very badly done, lazy shading, bad anatomy. The shading is much better now, and the anatomy is (not perfect still) better.

I think they should've made more of an effort with making them look more alive. I do realize they have to adapt the pose to the tack but like the feathering on the GVs? It couldn't have been that difficult to give them more feathering and then make it look different when wearing the leg thingies -.-


We already did. The new ones are adapted to fit with the upcoming tack. We can't have a mix of old and new coats since the tack doesn't fit with the old ones.

Anyways. All the ranting here is the same as the rants seen at any change. People were exactly the same when they changes from v1 coats to v2. Now people are trying to get v2 to stay.. The same coats people hated from the beginning.. Let change happen, it would be no fun if the game never changed.

@phönix when they originally did the poll , I thought the new coats were cool and very well done but i voted against them . What no one thought of when voting is WHAT the coat would actually look like for each breed and now we are stuck with these new ones .

May I add unless I'm mistaken I don't think we have ever been asked if we wanted tack on the horses, but here it is .

I'd rather they made two versions of the V3 coats and let US vote on which liked more . Not that thats going to happen


But now we are stuck playing horsey dress up With horses that no one wants , yet the majority voted for .

Since we could not see what all breeds would look like when remodled I think Howrse should let us have a vote .

Usually I like to put things in smileys but this is just depressing

For some reason, the horses look as if their necks are like bending down.. and the New Foundland pony just looks small I would miss the old coats

I need to start saving up on GAs

Rant, rant, rant, rant....As mentioned earlier Ow and Admins rarely glance at this. Your "opinions" (rants) are not getting you or Howrse anywhere.

exactly.. they don't want our opinions, as the ideas forum being pulled..if they want our opinion they will poll us on ideas THEY like, not what WE actually want, they do NOT moniter this well, because they do not listen to anything negative if it should pop up and try to derail the "crazy train" howrse is becoming, they don't like it... so just turn and walk away so to speak

I looked through some more posts and saw most everyone disliked one or two but loved three or four! I don't get it, everyone hates the graphics change but loved more coats than they dislike? I think we should just try the change and see what we get. If you don't like that kind of horse than stop breeding it and move on. We voted on the coats and that's what we are most likely getting. Please just think about this, and maybe you'll see what I'm try to say. Thanks and sorry if I come of rude,
~Miracle

Sure, there was a poll for tack too, at the same time as voting for the coat. Majority said yes, so that "nobody wants it" is simply false. Obviously somebody wants it. I do. You'll be able to turn it off anywas. If you don't like it don't use it.

I voted for the new coats because I strongly dislike the ones we have now. I at least hoped the new coats would be as good as those they showed.. Which obviously didn't happen. They're still better drawn, so at least it's a step in the right direction. Maybe the next generation of coats will be awesome ^*

I'm beginning to think ubisoft is bringing in ideas from the barbie horse games to implement here at times

I believe we voted for some of the coats to change (weren't there 4 breeds only), not all of them.
I like all of the new ones except Vanners and Curlys, those look weird to me. Though the images look quite not ready yet, to me. I loooove new Shetlands, the current ones look too cartoonish and round to me.

You can't expect them to ask to poll people for every change they make. In real life it doesn't happen either, why should it happen here. Do big snack companies ask you opinion which flavor they should discontinue? No they don't, they just do.
Ranting never gets anyone anywhere though, constructive and well explained criticism on the other hand might help.

I don't know about you, but the new coats are better. Especially the Akhal-Teke and the Fjord.

Finally someone I can agree with XD

It does happen in real life , for your 'snack' example if I company is loosing money they will discontinue the product that is not producing enough profitso in that respect it is a poll , plus every now and again companies ( like walkers for example ) ask you , the consumer which flavours/ what you would like and see how possible it is to have it .. And if you really want to go deep , when you vote someone as I PM/MP/President it's because you aree with their policies , in theory a poll.. Either way I'm going a little off topic...

I don't think any of us are ranting , if we dislike the new coats we can post it . If we want to add criticism we can post it .. No where does it say we can't

On almost everything that happenes there is a poll.... Only time theirs not is when something is no longer making a profit..

I (personally) think that since they took away the ideas forum , our ONLY voice , that we really have that they should do a poll for every big change we have .. But that's my opinion

Was this their example: