BLUP Revaluation


The BLUP calculation has been reworked to ensure greater equity between breeders.

There was a certain imbalance in the way BLUP is calculated as well as in how the genetic potential and skills are passed down to foals. For example, training a horse in their 3 best skills counted more than age or wins when it came to calculating BLUP. On the other hand, an average BLUP that was lower than 100 would still give you a high enough genetic potential gain so that reaching 100 BLUP lost its interest for some people.

We wanted to give value back to the efforts of determined breeders who make the effort to get to 100 BLUP with their horses before breeding them and thus ensure a greater reward for breeding quality. So here are the changes we've just made.

For more comprehensive list of changes, please see the changelog.


BLUP Calculation


There’s now a better distribution of the 3 factors determining BLUP calculation: the BLUP calculation is less weighted toward training so that wins and horse age count more.

Win weighting: Each win gives you more BLUP than the previous win. The 20th win is therefore the most significant.

Age weighting: Each month gives you more BLUP than the previous month, so you get to the maximum when the horse reaches age 10.
Note: A horse’s BLUP updates after their first aging after the update.


Calculation of a foal's genetic potential


The formula for calculating a foal's genetic potential has been adjusted to change the BLUP factor in the formula.

If the parents' BLUP is below 100, the GP gain is weaker than before, whereas if the parents' BLUP is 100, nothing changes.

Note: Nothing changes for coverings that took place before the change: the genetic potential and innate skills of foals will stay the same as they were expected to be when the covering took place.


Other adjustments: Morpheus' Arms and Nyx Pack


You don't need to wait for a horse to be 3 years old now. You can give a foal Morpheus' Arms or even a Nyx Pack any time after they're born. So you can now save on some aging points!

On the other hand, any horse over 30 years old now loses their Morpheus' Arms.

Alongside the BLUP changes, it states the MA is also undergoing some tweaks. The description states that now 'any horse over 30 years of age loses their MA.' Right now, it is any IMMORTAL horse over 30- any mortal horse that is over 30 keeps their MA until they die. Is this new change getting rid of that, if I am reading it correctly? So any horse, after this new update, no matter whether they are mortal or immortal, are no longer able to keep their MA past 30?

A lot of people complain about their inability to get divines unless they buy passes. However, in the upcoming cards promo we can get a Greyfell with EQUUS ONLY!!! If you participate in the card auctions and sales every day the metre at the top of the page will fill up and you can get access to a PRIVATE sale of a DIAMOND joker card. The only prize the diamond card contains other than puzzle pieces is a GREYFELL! You can buy it for roughly 2.5 million equus (may vary depending on the amount of equus you have) so start saving for your divine! And remember you need extra because you need to participate in auctions and direct sales (of cards) in order to get access to the private sale.

A lot of people complain about their inability to get divines unless they buy passes. However, in the upcoming cards promo we can get a Greyfell with EQUUS ONLY!!! If you participate in the card auctions and sales every day the metre at the top of the page will fill up and you can get access to a PRIVATE sale of a DIAMOND joker card. The only prize the diamond card contains other than puzzle pieces is a GREYFELL! You can buy it for roughly 2.5 million equus (may vary depending on the amount of equus you have) so start saving for your divine! And remember you need extra because you need to participate in auctions and direct sales (of cards) in order to get access to the private sale.

will howrse ever allow any of the divine collections back? I have some massive gaps in my prehistoric and chinese divines -and more obviously- so it would be nice to try and finish them for good

You can only buy a card from each type of sale every 2 days. Events run about...19 days each? That's 18 cards roughly to buy. With the percentage you get based on the rarity of the card you buy I think I calculated needing all silvers plus 1 gold to fill the meter. Of course, if you get a mix of bronze, silver and gold and get lucky with buying a diamond then that will work, but buying mostly silvers will be cheaper, but you'd have to make sure to buy everytime you can because you won't get the meter filled otherwise.

I think it's a cool option, but the card auction prices go nuts. I probably won't bother, personally.