The next phase

To be released mid October

Equestrian center prestige changes
A comfort rating indicates box size, type of bedding, fodder, treats, and available equipment. This rating impacts center prestige.
The occupancy rate is taken into account in prestige calculation.
Boarders' prestige is revised in order to take the best skill of each boarder into account.
Lessons are no longer taken into account in general prestige. Lesson pricing directly depends on boarders' prestige.

Box changes
Ownership is removed.
Bedding quantity impacts morale loss and energy recovery when sending a horse to his box.
Box quality impacts morale and energy recovery when a horse wakes up.
The boxes and boarders pages are merged.
Boarding fees changes
Boarding fees range from 20 to 200 Equus.
Centers can offer equipment and food to boarders.
Center managers can pick a minimum boarding duration, from 3 to 30 days.

Meadow page changes
Meadow-related information are displayed in a clearer fashion.
You can now filter your meadows according to land surface, fertility, and use (fallow, pasture, or crops)
You can now purchase meadows from the meadows page.
Equestrian center office changes
It is back and now integrates the changes made to center management
Some elements (forum configuration, admin tab) have been moved.
The center registry is added to this page.

Removal of jobs
Bedding will be changed automatically so, grooms are no longer needed.
Instead of saddlers, equestrian centers can provide equipment to boarders, if they have some available.
The riding instructor no longer impacts the lesson fee, which now only depends from boarders' prestige.
A privilege that gives Equus is provided during the tutorial in order to help new players.
What's next...
Here is an overview of what we are planning next.
We will provide further details on each feature as the release date approaches.
The competition management page is updated: competition related info is easier to find and edit.
Inventories, breeder storage, and equestrian center storage are merged.
You pick a location for your equestrian center: the beach, the mountain, or the forest. This location defines the main resource you can obtain (sand, iron or wood).
Production cycles are added to allow harvests, crafting, and product selling.
Rides are easier to manage.
You can now add improvements to your structures in order to improve their quality or output.
Lessons are now missions. Missions allow the horse to receive experience. Howrse owners receive Equus from them, and equestrian centers receive resources.
A tutorial is available when setting up equestrian centers.
Workhorses are added to the game.
And maybe other features to be added in the meantime.

You'd have to take into account the cost (/sell) price of the individual items, but also how the items change. For instance, I believe flax and barley are changed into oats, right?
So at the moment we need: 2 (flax) + 6 (barley) + 2 (oats) => 10 "oat" for health mash.
and even more for the other 2 mashes.
After the change you'll need only 2 oats to make mash, so it would be much cheaper to make the mash after the change, right?

But this is only for oats.. We also need to take the other items into account..

After the change you need:
8 = Wheat oat
2 = Oats
1 = Flax seeds
1 = Apple
To make mash.

Is someone willing to help? I can't get any further then this, and if it saves us money it's useful to think about

I love to have boxes for myself in my EC, and I know everyone, whether they are running a private or public EC, makes good use of the reserve a box function. It would be like howrse removing the stroke function on a horse.
But...Ownership may not be the same as reserving. Rather, I think they may be saying that you will have the ability to sell boxes. Why would they say "Ownership is removed" when they could just say "The ability to reserve is removed". Or maybe they are coming out with a new feature where spots in an EC rather than specific boxes can be reserved. Although that would make things difficult in a new way...
If they are removing reserving boxes, by that time there will probably be some new feature making up for it somehow, like the ability to have certain boxes only have horses with certain GP in them. But I can't imagine howrse deciding it would be time to remove all private ECs and make things difficult for players who use their own ECs for themeslves.