All I can say to this is
With the current tweaks here you can balance it out and still allow several very low GP horses and several blups. When the changes come that won't be doable.

The graphics very clearly tell you the level of the horses skills are too low.
Could be caused by several factors
- too many horses are being blupped at the same time. Dragging down the top skill - check to that
- too many low GP horses with matching low skills. Check to that. Low GP unis as in under 1000GP - and thus matching low skills
- need more higher GP horses with matching high skills

*rolls over dead*

Time to give it some thought and try to prepare a little before the change does come-

With the new changes my EC is down to 36e lessons...

I'm somehow happy I did not spend a lot of money on getting it up to 60e before this change...

Meadow wise I really DO like the countdown

The sad thing is I mostly use my EC as guaranteed boxes with showers for myself and friends, so it sits mostly empty so I always have those open for use, even in the middle of the day when there's no good EC slots left (especially useful for skilling ;w; ) but with the changes it seems like we are "punished" for keeping boxes open. I don't even have 20 boxes yet lol, so already gonna get slapped for that when it rolls out unless I manage to buy up 6 more 3* boxes after upgrades are complete to my lowly 2* boxes... and yeah I don't see that happening since income on the EC is hard to make since it depends on fields 100% unless you have boxes open for public (which even then isn't gonna make a ton of income... but I'm thinking about it just so I can make a bit more money to perform necessary upgrades :| )

The tack thing though.. geeze why? Like, that makes the 1 day boarding 100% NOT worth it. If the max you can charge is 200e, the CHEAPEST tack I can offer (1*) will cost 1,500 for the full set. The CHEAPEST item is 200e, so basically I'd be lucky if they break even by only using one item. But if I don't offer them my rating is penalized... catch 22 there. Supposedly the tack will be cheaper when we are able to produce ourselves, but the cost right now really needs to be severely cut, or there's literately no possible way to justify the cost. Because, as it is right now at the cheapest set of tack & 200e bording fee, I'd need a horse to board for 8 days JUST to break even on my costs if they decide to use each piece of tack.

If the borders didn't keep the tack that'd be a different story. And honestly in RL I don't know of ANY horse borders who go "oh you bored at my place? Here's a load of free tack! Yep you can keep it when you leave too!" That makes zero sense. More like, supply your own, or some have ones you may use there included in the boarding fee (and some allow you to rent them for the day, it all depends). IMO it'd have been better to say 1* tack last for 20 days of use, and so on so yes it wears out and needs to be replaced, but no you can't have a different horse every day board and make off with your tack :L That's highway robbery man.

That's why I am not going to offer public boxes, even though I had planned to do so.
I'll have to spend a lot just to get one set of tack for each box. So my EC doors will be closed. For how long I do not know.

I don't even know what amount of fodder is needed to fully complete a high GP skiller fast. has anyone kept notes of that?

If you do not tic the check-boxes you do not offer fodder

so do not panic just yet... I'll update you all tomorrow. So you can all see what difference it makes when you offer fodder.

like so
gigantic pic below sorry all. So first the direct link http://imgbox.com/ArKCo0fP

now the huge pic.

I hope they add some text about the fodder items. Like check to offer fodder.

did you check the boxes so you offer fodder? Surely it could not have dropped so much?
I really hope you made the same mistake I did

Well, I think it is just going to be harder to keep stuff at 100% prestige all the time. Is that really such a terrible thing? All good EC's having 60e lessons is going to be a thing of the past, but that just means that lessons will pay less. It doesn't have anything to do with your horse's morale, it just means equus will be harder to come by later.

I'm pretty sure the default WAS that what is in stock is also offered but it seems that changed now, through it won't let me offer fodder till I reach the minimum amount for the number of boxes I have...

Which makes me wonder: should I ever drop below the amount of fodder/oat I need to feed all horses, will the remains just stay rotting in my inventory instead of being available when a boarder would need it?

"If not all boarders get this no-one will get it" even when you are only 1 item short?!

btw with being able to check the boxes for carrots and oats I still have 36e lessons, no idea if it takes longer to take effect...

If you get a Plague horse, what if it already has had 5 foals, will one of them still have a chance of getting the hearitage of Plague?

You all do know that the lesson prices will only matter for like, a month, before all your hard work goes to dust? So why get worked up about the lesson prices when all you do won't matter anymore? I would get worked up about having the lessons taken away.

they are becoming missions, and will provide the same benefits to the borders. The only difference is the EC will also receive resources for each mission/lesson completed so there's still a lot of reason to make fuss about them

Yes you can offer tack. It adds to the centers prestige. If you do offer tack, the boarder gets to keep the tack once they leave. So you have to buy new tack. Later we can apparently make our own.

Regarding the fodder option I didn't even notice. Some kind soul at prepod asked me why I wasn't offering fodder

I had thought that offering fodder would up the lessons a lot. But guess what it did NOT happen. The lessons went from 42e to 43e.

I went on a spending spre using some of the free passes we have while testing, and boarded the following horses there. (I still have my apparently good for nothing horses boarded. Just added the horses below)

1 Tb with 1174,90 in gallop
1 Aussie with 1046,30 in jump
1 Paso with 1019,25 in trot
1 Gypsy with 1064,59 in stamina

The Ec with fodder available (direct link to the pic http://imgbox.com/fvWs1kfv)



The overall prestige (direct link to pic http://imgbox.com/4NNxXIju)



As you'll be able to see compared to the stats I posted yesterday (on the previous page), the overall prestige has went up from 79,65% to 79,79%.
Meadows have for some odd reason dropped from yesterdays 99% to 98,87 today, even though I've rotated them every day swapping with 100% clean ones.
The Horse level has risen from 37.71 to 38.71 why is that? I wish I knew. Perhpas me working a few just one month worth has made a difference, even though I did not do any lessons. I worked like 5 tops.

The competition prestige should drop soon, since we cannot run comps on prepod.

Going to check again tomorrow with the 4 new horses added. Then go buy more tack to see if that has any impact on the prestige. I won't be able to buy much since my EC is kinda broke there because I had to buy the tack. But we'll see if adding a few more tack items helps any. It shouldn't since Confort du centre is already at 100% but we'll see.

I love the new BMI