@Satkin
Is your Tianma really that bad ? Mine only ever seems to give me double poop

Yes especially all the passes it took me to get him - he was *not* worth 22 passes.
You have yet to prove yourself Tianma! Make my horses poop more! Come *on*!

@Satkin
Woah 22 ? Mine only took 9 wich is a rarity for me to spend so little I'll bless you with the double poop , I'd rather have skills


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There is a new BLOG entry for the ECs just done today.

Look at the bottom of the page for more.

Copied in case anyone can't find it.




Several months ago, we told you about our project to review the Equestrian Centers. Since, things have progressed and it’s about time for us to give you some news about this –huge- project.

Why review the Equestrian Centers?

To start off with, we noticed that equestrian centers (EC) hadn’t evolved in the almost 9 years of Howrse’s existence, while the rest of the game regularly underwent evolutions, small or rather large.

And what could have seemed nice nine years ago doesn’t necessarily today. Online games progress fast, very fast and to be perfectly honest, the ECs are a bit obsolete. The ECs needed to be modernised!

Next, the question was: what can we do with the ECs? How can we make them more attractive, more fun and more challenging? The two master words were: strategy and player interactions.

We want the ECs take a bigger role in the game’s game play, not just be a feature superimposed on the rest and whose impact on the game stays on the fringe. We want strategy to be the hearth of it and player interactions a tool to get to the top.

How are we going to do that?

The main axis of this project is the production cycle. Basically, your EC could manufacture or harvest almost all the resources it needs for its development (as boxes, showers, …) and your horse’s needs (as food, treats, equipment).

The basic principle is:
-> harvest a primary resource
-> transform it to make it into an end product
-> use the end product to improve your EC, keep it for your personal use or sell it to earn equus.

To add some challenge, every EC has to specialize itself by choosing a location (forest, beach or mountain). To get wood if your EC is near the beach, you will have to buy some in the market place.

The other players’ actions could have some influence on yours. For example: your EC is in the forest. You can ask the horses boarded into your EC to perform missions for you (missions will replace lessons): for example, harvesting wood in the forest. In return, the horse’s owner will get money and the horse will receive skills. With the wood, you could make something useful in your workshop, for example make a new box. You also could sell the overflow in the market and this way influence the wood price because all the products will be priced depending on supply and demand (the rarer and more desirable a resource is, the more expensive it’ll be).

How are we planning to introduce the features?

You can imagine that such a huge change on an already existing feature isn’t a piece of cake.

So everything will not be going online at the same time. On one side, we do not want you to flee into the opposite direction. On the other side, we think that it can be useful our developers and game designers’ sleep sometimes.

Basically, everything that will be set online before the arrival of the production cycle is aimed at preparing this same arrival (for example: changes about agriculture, the horses food) and everything that will come out after the production cycle will be to refine and complete it. For example: rethinking the secret market or the draft horses introduction.

It is quite difficult to tell you precisely how much time it will take but we can already give you estimate: it will take more than six months and we are going to need several months before the production cycle’s arrival.

How are we going to communicate?

The first step will go online on the beginning of September and will mark the start of all the future stages. We will propose a special page that will be available on the game until almost all the EC’s new features are done. This page will show you:
- the features coming in the next update
- an overview of the features coming later on.

It will be possible to discuss them on a dedicated topic on the forum.

In the meantime, we will propose you some blog articles, treating about more sensitive subjects (as the fusion of the breeder and EC reserve of equus) to give you detailed explanations and to reassure you.

We hope that we could give you some keys to prepare yourself to this and welcome the new features with excitement and pleasure when they will come.

See you soon on the game for the first step.

Maïté, community manager for the French version.
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Hmm now I am thinking which crop I should plant that I should either sell or hoard so it will change into something very useful later. Does any body have any ideas? Also what would be better buy as of meadows so they change into fertile ones. Medium or large? Can someone please pm me if they have any ideas of what is better?

Well as it says the updaytes wont be fully up till mid 2015 but it sounds like you should hoard things like Hay and other foods because they will be the most in demand as foods for the howrses

Nope nothing missed per se.....besides various talks about the new shinies and some specualtion on the EC makeover.


That was what I thought as well.


I really hope your wrong... but at the same time I won't be surprised if we cannot interact with them


Waaat nooooooooo I want to keep those, even if I cannot interact with them. I mean how can you have cutting competitions if we do not have any calves?

@Satkin my Tianma behaves like yours. Only double poop once so far
@Svengali you could send a little of that errr poop luck to me and Satkin

More than 6 months to implement all the EC changes. Yiekes we're in for the long haul. But it's good we're not getting everything all at once. That would be very very confusing.
Must be rather tricky to decide in what order we get the various features.

Bummer we do not have a plains option just saying

A question once more...please anyone do we have a prepod running that is testing the new EC features?
Anyone?

What are the new divines? I know of Skinfraxi, Hinfraxi and Pixu. Who comes next?

who will Tianma breed with and can Pixiu breed ?

Does anyone know if Tiama and Pixu can breed together?

Ahh...purple_tegan and lotte123, looks like I've found you here too.

Apple i have founded Famous

Anyone know when prepod is open or is it already open?

Prepod is not running at the moment I am pretty sure (however I may be wrong, usually people share alot of screen shots during prepod).


We don't know to either of those.
I'm assuming not since Tianma is a male, and the lion mane on Pixiu is a male trait. So unless the divines have decided to rebel and make lion manes a transgender trait .. I don't think they'll breed together.

I have a question about the prepod - is it the same people who get invited each time or is it a whole new bunch of people who get invited each time?

Many thanks

New people get invited each time but if you are helpful, admins are more likely to invite you back for the next one - for example pointing out a glitch not just playing around with all the money you get.

I'm not sure, I thought I'd heard that at one point, but I could be wrong, or it could've just been a what if situation.

Did someone mention me? Hello you 3!

I am stocking up on lots of manure. If it's 5 per bag, then more of that means plenty of fertilizer!

I hope I'm wrong too >.< I'm a huge draft horse lover and it would suck if you couldn't interact with them.. But that's the way I feel they would fit into the RCs at the moment. But I don't know HOW big the changes will be, considering the merging of the reserves and inventory, there might be some cross-over with the horses to the ECs; my dream would be that breeding drafts would be possible, and that having high GP (or an equivalent, "Strength" or something like that) on the work horses in your RC would make it more efficient to.. pull home wood or whatever Howrse has in mind for the RCs.. And as the "GP" rises, it's important to at all times have high "GP" drafts to maintain efficiency

That would be good. I know a lot of players would be very disappointed if Drafts were just "there" and you couldn't really do anything with them. But it seems like after years and years of people asking for them it would be a shame if they didn't make them breedable, they wouldn't do that to us, right
This part gives me hope "For example: rethinking the secret market or the draft horses introduction." It seems like if they were just like the calves their wouldn't be a whole lot of thought put in to the introduction of Drafts, but that could just be wishful thinking.

I just found it! Yayy! they are coming!

I wonder if the drafts will be able to breed with at least horses if not ponys. At least some of the larger breeds like Friesian's and TBs. Hmmmmmmm

Yeah because you can do that in real life