In theory, I approve of the change - I always felt it was rather silly that breeding at less than 100% carried no penalty, and as someone who is a stickler for breeding at 100% I feel it does level the playing field. But in order for this to work for anyone who isn't breeding horses good enough to easily scoop up wins during the bolding process, the situation with comps must be addressed.

Like Asfridur, I breed low-skilled horses....I have been doing so for nearly as long as I've been on the game. That never used to be an obstacle. Before the skill range of low-level comps started widening unchecked, any player could successfully BLUP any horse with just some patience and skill - train it properly, pay attention to skill ranges, choose comps carefully, and you'd get your wins.

Now, the skill element has been removed, and it's become a matter of luck - even if you cram as many skills and bonuses on as you can, and enter the easiest comps that exist, you still have to cross your fingers in hopes that no one else enters a horse with twice as many skills as yours. Even rookie comps are often blanketed by horses whose secondary skills are target trained, since that skill range also keeps increasing. Between that, and just waiting for the comps to run, it can take weeks to get 20 wins.

The latter part of that problem is something I am hoping this new change can effect in a positive way - many players were so frustrated by the impossibility of winning that they stopped entering comps altogether, so it takes longer than ever for them to gather enough entries (and that's for *this* server - I am told the regional servers have it far worse). People may be driven to start entering now, for all the good it will do them.

What's the answer? Good question. Rolling back and capping the skill range for comps below a certain level would help, but given how the game has been trying to push players away from low skilled horses, it seems unlikely they'd be willing to do that. Capping the number of rookie comps a horse can be entered in at once (in other words, they would have to wait until some of them run before entering more) might make those comps less likely to get 'stuck' with the same target trained horse in every one. Or, the game can take an entirely fresh tack and change the point system, so that finishing second or third can give credit towards BLUP (ie, 1 full point for win, .25 percent of a point for second, .10 for third), which would not only really get people entering, but also make the comping process less discouraging for players of all levels.

In any case, the game has to do *something* - otherwise, what should be a good and worthy change will just end up creating more grief and aggravation.

I see someone suggested giving part BLUP point for second and third place finishes,
ive actually thought about this many times while blupping and think it would be a great idea especially if they are pushing this new thing to where you have to have 100 Blup to get the best gp gain

As a person who blups to 100, I do not see a problem with that. Yes I have had many times where I didn't get my wins without the first few hours or that day but that didn't stop me.
I know for sure a lot of teams will barely blup then be in the top 3 within a day because they did a sloppy job of blupping and just raised their GP. Which that is not fair, especially for the teams that care about quality and have spent all that time producing quality horses just for a team to beat them out by pushing out so many horses in one day and get a lead. As for fillers,
like are we really going to complain that we cant cheat out the comps and get easy wins??

I am really happy about the blupping change.It has been so frustrating seeing teams blupping horses to only 30% to 70% blup and get ahead of determined players like myself that spend the time to produce quality foals by always blupping both parents to 100%. I hope this change gets implemented very soon - the sooner, the bettter.

I do understand unicorn breeders concerns though.I sent note to Contact Us expressing my feelings about the blup calculation improvement . However, I suggested that they might want to tweak the system by either having different calculations for unicorns or else introduce unicorn only comps, which would make it easier for unicorns to get their wins.

I do not see it being bad that MA's will drop off mortal horses at age 30. I always blup my horses to 100%. I have found that I have never had to resort to using a black orchid to get a skiller.I usually get a foal with very high ibs after three to five drops. Occasionally the mare is over 25 before she drops a skiller foals, but I have always been able to drop a skiller foal before the health drops to zero percent. I find it is a lot harder to get quality foals with high ibs if the previous generations have not been blupped to 100%. Friends who dont blup to 100% have told me that it often takes 30 breedings to get high ibs.