is the seal of the apocalypse going to replace the bewitched pumpkin or is it just going to be a new BMI?

I'm not sure if this has been said already,but since some people kicked up a fuss about the Seal of Apocalypse,it is rumoured on the AU server(or at least that is where I found this out)they are changing the names of the horses to Latin.So instead of Plauge,War,Death,Famine,you will get the names translated into Latin.

it's really confusing me as to why people are kicking up a fuss about the names anyway... They're just words....
And just taking it as a Example when the Simpsons do the Haloween specials and people die it's called comedy. When howrse draws a horse and calls it death it's sick... I'm not sure if it's just me but it don't really see a problem

With the EC changes, they are apparently swapping 'lessons' with the 'missions'. These 'missions' are so that - depending on which location you chose for your EC - you can harvest resources to make into other things.

"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." - 'Reviewing the Equestrian Centers', Howrse Blog.

They also said on this blog that the lesson prestige is being removed from the calculation of prestige - So how will the amount of skills earned by the horses through these 'missions' differ? Does anyone know?

Various pages and interfaces have been reviewed to adjust them to these new changes :

-The meadow page
-The Equestrian centre’s public profile
-The registration to an equestrian centre page.

We enjoin you to take a look at them

A new black market item is added to the Customization category: the Seal of the Apocalypse.

This item works the same way as the bewitched pumpkin:

-It can't be bought with passes unless an event tied to this item is active.
-When this is the case, the price for this item is 2 passes.
-It can be traded on the item exchange
-It can be given to horses as young as 18 months old
-It can be given to horses, ponies, pegasus, unicorns and winged unicorns
-It can't be given to donkeys, divine or wild horses
-It can't be combined with other special coat items (it overwrites the previous item)
-It gives a +5 bonus to each horse skill

Each coat is animated.

The jobs are removed to make a little bit of space for new features.

Here is what it implies on the breeder’s side :

You don’t need to look for a job any longer.
Therefore you don’t get paid a salary
As a replacement, each player receives a Wealth Privilege that offers 100 equus per day.

Here is what it implies on the equestrian centre’s side :

You can't hire players as employees anymore and they don’t count for the prestige any longer either.

Bedding changes itself as long as you have enough bedding (Thank you invisigroom!)
The tack made available by the equestrian centre depend on the stock in the inventory
The price of lessons is exclusively based on the boarders’ prestige.

Check out the topic about the Equestrian Centre’s prestige to learn more.

As equestrian centres can now offer a multitude of services to their boarders to improve their comfort or make substantial savings on their expenses, it is only logical to increase the boarding fees.

The minimal fee for a day in an equestrian centre is 20 equus. The maximum price is 200 equus. Up to you to offer rates that correspond to what you are offering to your boarders.

If your rates are too high compared to the benefits you offer, your equestrian centre will remain empty. If your rates are too low compared to those same benefits you may have your boxes full of boarders but empty pockets.

On top of selecting a maximum boarding length, as equestrian centre director, you must also determine a minimal length. This minimal length is set to three days as a default, except if you have defined a maximum boarding length of a single day. (If you have spring and the VIP account).

Check out your Equestrian centre’s office page to make the necessary modifications.

As the director of an equestrian centre you can manage the tack and food that you offer your boarders.

On your office page, a table lists all the things that can be offered to your boarders as well as how much you have left in your inventory.

The minimal required amount to offer tack or food to your boarders is shown in a bubble when you hover your mouse of each item. From the moment you have enough stock you can chose what you wish to make available to your boarders.

If your stock of items becomes insufficient due to the consumption of your boarders, their availability is automatically disabled. Make sure to keep an eye on your stocks!

Check out your Equestrian centre’s office page.

The prestige for equestrian centres is reviewed in detail to fit the new features and to be simpler to understand. We also introduce a comfort rating.

The comfort rating

An important element of equestrian centres’ prestige is the comfort rating. It takes into account the various elements that can provide comfort to a horse and the make your EC an enjoyable place to live for your boarders.

Here is the constrained list:

• The size of the boxes
• The quality of the bedding
• The presence of improvements in each box ; for the moment the only one is the shower.

• The availability of food for your boarders:
- Fodder
- Oats
- Carrots
- Mashes

• The availability of tack for your boarders, as well as it’s quality.
- Saddles
- Bridles
- Saddle pads
- Polo wraps
- Bonnet

This tack has to be bought in the Equestrian centre store for the moment. Later you will be able to produce it in your equestrian centre.

The Prestige

The global prestige of the equestrian centre depends on various sub-prestige ratings.

• The comfort rating.

• Meadow prestige which groups:
- Meadow fertility
- Meadow size

• The equestrian centre’s capacity prestige:
- The number of boxes, with an optimum amount of 100.
- The occupancy level, with an optimum amount of 50% occupied boxes. An occupied box is a box that contains a horse at the moment of the daily update.

• The boarder prestige that is based on the level of each horse’s best skill compared to the best horse on the game in that specific skill.

• The prestige of the equestrian centres’ competitions that depends on the skill level of the horses that register in your competitions.

Divine horses count for the occupancy level for the boxes; however they don’t count for the boarder’s prestige.

The prestige for lessons disappears. From now on the prices of lessons and the skill gains they offer depend directly on the boarder’s prestige. The total prestige of the equestrian centre doesn’t count for them any longer.

We invite you to go to your equestrian centre’s office page to learn more and discover a few indications that will help you bring improvements to your equestrian centre.

The quality of the boxes and their bedding, as well as having an impact on the prestige, provides certain advantages to the horses that board with you.

Boxes

The quality of the boxes of your Equestrian Centre influences the morale of your horse when he wakes up; the better the quality of a box, the better your horse’s morale in the morning.

A horse put to bed at 22:00 at most twill wake up with:
- +1 of moral compared to the previous day with a maximum of 90% if he slept in a 1* box
- +2 of moral compared to the previous day with a maximum of 95% if he slept in a 2** box
- +3 of moral compared to the previous day with a maximum of 100% if he slept in a 3*** box

The penalty a horse receives when he is put to bed after 22:00 is smaller if the box is of higher quality.

Bedding

The notion of cleanliness is removed from the game. On the other hand, the quality of box bedding gives an energy
Advantage and will influence the loss of morale when a horse spends time in his box.

For instance flax bedding will give more energy and will make your horse lose less morale than straw bedding when he spends time in his box. If the box doesn’t have bedding (because the EC is out of stock_, he’ll win very little energy and will lose a lot of morale.

Woodchip bedding is removed. If you had any in stock in your inventory or in your boxes, they will be replaced with straw bedding.

To make this simpler to access and easier to manage, the interface of the box page has been reviewed and merged with the boarder’s page.

To see how many horses it takes to get which coat and to see if any is more common then the others.

From my testing I can say that the most common seems to be HUNGER (H). Followed by DEATH (D) and then WAR (W). PLEAGUE (P) was, as was to be expected, a hard to get one (at least it was for me). I pretty much went and put the Seal on as many horses as it took to get all four coats, then repeated to get all four coats again; those are the results:

H, W, D, D, H, H, H, W, H, D, P (first set complete. 5 Hunger, 2 War, 3 Death, 1 Pleague)

H, W, D, H, H, D, W, H, H, D, D, H, H, H, D, H, D, W, W, H, H, D, H, D, W, D, H, W, P (second set complete. 13 Hunger, 6 War, 6 Death and 1 Plague)

btw Unicorns CAN be used, horns are not visible tho

that's really strange! I read something that said someone on the French server did a test with 100 passes and hunger was the second rarest , War and Death were both pretty similar and plague was the rarest! Maybe it differed for servers

It might also be different for different users Someone on test got Pleague the very first try so there might also be a chance it depends how many people use the item at that moment